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Sometimes the System Works
Joshua gets his second no-prize of the day by being the first to tell us of Judge Moore's fate:
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office Thursday for refusing to obey a federal court order to move his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state courthouse.
Civil disobedience in the name of a higher cause is supposed to result in punishment as directed by the law. He stood up for what he believed in by breaking the law and got canned for it. I am simply dumbstruck that today's permissive "me" culture and utterly uncritical press corps allow individuals to be deluded into thinking there will be no consequences for breaking a law if it's broken for a "just cause".
And don't think I'm coming down on this guy because he's a fundie wack. I think he butt should be parked in the cell next to that sweet little-old-lady school teacher from Florida who violated federal travel & trade bands by sitting in front of an Iraqi power station. Well, assuming he did something worthy of getting tossed in the pokey over. Not sure if this is.
People call me a fundie whack all the time (especially my liberal ex-friends), and I think that Roy Moore is a total nutjob who desperately needed to be fired, if not impeached.
The separation of church and state, even if not explicitly written into the Constitution, can be determined, by simple observation of countries where there is no separation, to be one of the primary reasons why America is the most powerful nation on Earth, instead of being just another war-torn third-world nation.
It's just sad (but not surprising) to see that he still has the popular support of the majority of the people in Alabama. He won the election in a landslide over his opponent, and it's all because he campaigned on the slogan "Freedom of religion does NOT include freedom from religion." Of course, as Mac Thompson will verify, Alabama is becoming the US's own little third-world country.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on November 13, 2003 05:24 PMdidn't that guy rule by the bible, not the constitution? i say lock him up with three very lonely men.
Posted by: samkit on November 13, 2003 08:09 PM