Thou Shalt Go On Tour
Remember the Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama state judicial building that was removed by federal court order and that cost State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore his position?
The Texas-based group American Veterans Standing for God and Country, with the approval of Moore, has put the monument on a flat-bed truck and is touring with it across the country.
The AP reports today that the tour began at the Dayton Tennessee court house -- site of the Scopes Monkey Trial -- and at Rhea County High School, where Bible classes were ended in 2002 by a federal lawsuit.
The tour will culminate on October 22, when the monument will arrive in Washington D.C. in time for the "America for Jesus" rally. According to the AP, the group hopes to win congressional support to display the monument permanently at the U.S. Capitol.
In a July 19 press release, Jim Cabaniss, President of American Veterans Standing for God and Country (a project of American Veterans in Domestic Defense, which is committed to battling domestic enemies like the ACLU, atheists, judicial activists, trial lawyers, pharmaceutical companies, and the IRS), defended Moore and the monument:
Most Americans remember the scene at the Alabama State Supreme Court Building on August 27, 2003. On that day, federal authorities instructed the removal of the 2 1/2 ton Ten Commandment Monument from the beautiful rotunda to a dark storage closet. This made most Americans angry.
Today we are moving the Monument out of the darkness into the light. The American Veterans Standing For God and Country have reached an agreement with Chief Justice Roy Moore to take possession of this beautiful monument and display it across America from city to city on its way to our Nation's Capital. Most Veterans have great respect for Chief Justice Moore. He is a Veteran, a West Point Graduate, a great Constitutional and Biblical Scholar.
He stood on his oath, even to the point of giving up his job as the top Judicial Authority in the State of Alabama. We know there's something wrong in America when an appointed federal judge has the power to tell a duly elected State Supreme Court Judge that he cannot acknowledge God and thus fulfill his oath of office.
I wholeheartedly agree: there's something wrong in America.
You know, I've been meaning to reread Sinclair Lewis, but with the stories in the news nowadays, why bother?
11:50:56 PM 
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