# This Just In: Roy "10 Commandments" Moore Removed **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 13, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054 "2003-11-13T17:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/1 "2003-11-13T17:24:57Z")
No link yet- it’s live on TV, but he has been removed as AL Supreme Court Justice. More to follow (as links allow). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/2 "2003-11-13T17:34:35Z")
Woo–hoo! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/3 "2003-11-13T17:36:40Z")
So, for the debate (still no link available, but trust me), do you agree or disagree with the finding? I have to admit that as an Alabama born freethinker, I am ecstatic. I couldn’t be happier if Cher just won a second Oscar! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/4 "2003-11-13T17:57:42Z")
And now the fundies are going to weep and wail that they are being persecuted because they aren’t allowed to enact their Chrisitan Supremacist views into law. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/5 "2003-11-13T18:01:01Z")
Oooh ooh oooh- I hope they filmed this! A friend of mine in Montgomery says there’s a man on a white horse riding 7 times around the Supreme Court building to re-enact the Battle of Jericho. (All he needs now is a few hundred thousand Hebrews blowing trumpets, a few more burrowing under the city while the marchers create a diversion, and a really powerful mean deity who’s on his side to really make the similarity eerie.) ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/6 "2003-11-13T18:02:31Z")
So long asshole. I hope your self martyrdom is rewarded by a rapid departure from the public conscience. ---
**Author:** ![carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrot)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/7 "2003-11-13T18:02:39Z")
[Woohoo!](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36331-2003Nov13.html) Now, if we could just get the people in Barrow County to [cut the crap.](http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?ID=76066) ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/8 "2003-11-13T18:03:06Z")
So what office does Moore run for now? AG? Governor? Senator? The man is no Christian. He’s just a media whore. ---
**Author:** ![Milum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Milum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milum)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/9 "2003-11-13T18:07:25Z")
## **Sampiro** : I have to admit that as an Alabama born freethinker, I am ecstatic. I couldn’t be happier if Cher just won a second Oscar! Methinks you waste your free thinks wishing for Cher another Oscar. Better you consider that smug and arrogant, out-of-control federal judges have invalidated the election of a state judge properly elected by the people of Alabama. But take heart. We in Alabama dare defend our rights. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/10 "2003-11-13T18:08:36Z")
Waaaaah! We being persecuted because they aren’t allowed to enact their Chrisitan Supremacist views into law! Really, the First Amendmant interpretation by most of the libs is way too broad. Moore’s acknowledgment of the Christian roots of the US is in no way establishing a state religion. \>The man is no Christian. He’s just a media whore. Cite? ---
**Author:** ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/11 "2003-11-13T18:13:42Z")
Woo-hoo? This is what he wanted. Now he can run for Governor as the man who tried to bring the 10 commandments into the courthouse, and was thrown out along with the commandments. He couldn’t have set himself up any better for the religious right in Alabama if Kark Rove was running the show. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/12 "2003-11-13T18:14:36Z")
A commentator just said there’s no indication Moore will be expelled from the Alabama Bar – which means he is still a licensed attorney and is eligible to run again for the office of chief justice, which is an elected one in Alabama. That would raise an interesting constitutional question: Can he be chief justice again, when the state’s Court of the Judiciary has already found him guilty of violating the canons of judicial ethics? But if he has any sense, he will run for some nonjudicial, policymaking office where his right to act according to his religious convictions will not be questioned (at least, will not be questioned in the same way). And he is very popular in Alabama right now – if he wanted to run for governor or something he’d have a good chance. But the next state constitutional officer elections are not until 2006 (according to [www.politics1.com](http://www.politics1.com)). Both of Alabama’s senators are Republicans – I can’t see Moore challenging either of them. That leaves the House of Representatives. Alabama has seven representatives – two of them (Robert “Bud” Cramer, District 5, and Artur Davis, District 7) are Democrats. They’d better watch out. Maybe Moore will do us all a favor and be satisfied with spending the next few years on the evangelical lecture circuit. ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/13 "2003-11-13T18:18:57Z")
> [@](#): > > ## \*Originally posted by Milum \* \*\ ***Sampiro** : I have to admit that as an Alabama born freethinker, I am ecstatic. I couldn’t be happier if Cher just won a second Oscar! > > Methinks you waste your free thinks wishing for Cher another Oscar. Better you consider that smug and arrogant, out-of-control federal judges have invalidated the election of a state judge properly elected by the people of Alabama. > > But take heart. We in Alabama dare defend our rights. \*\* If you’re going to post in Great Debates, you could make at least an attempt to act as though you had the slightest scintilla of a clue as to what you’re talking about. The Court of the Judiciary that removed Moore from office is a state institution. The complaint against Moore was brought by the Alabama Attorney General, Bill Pryor. Any invalidation of the election of Judge Moore was done according to due process of law by those bodies empowered to do so under the law, and those bodies are all state government bodies. ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/14 "2003-11-13T18:19:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milum \* > Methinks you waste your free thinks wishing for Cher another Oscar. Better you consider that smug and arrogant, out-of-control federal judges have invalidated the election of a state judge properly elected by the people of Alabama. Nothing of the sort has happened. It was a STATE board that tossed this loser. Thank you for displaying the utter ignorance that is so typical of your ilk. > [@](#): > > But take heart. We in Alabama dare defend our rights. Heh, yeah, I’m well aware of the opinions of Alabammmitans and “rights”, like the “right” to have Jim Crow, the “right” to have slavery… ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/15 "2003-11-13T18:24:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hansel \* > This is what he wanted. Now he can run for Governor as the man who tried to bring the 10 commandments into the courthouse He can join that other “great” Bammie guvnuh: “Segregation now, segregation forevah!” What a proud heritage Bammieland has. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/16 "2003-11-13T18:51:15Z")
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36331-2003Nov13.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36331-2003Nov13.html) I didn’t know he had actually designed the monument, as well. I think it was the “And besides, the piece of crap is butt ugly as well, and we don’t want it stinking up the building” part of the decision that really frosted him. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/17 "2003-11-13T18:53:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by athelas \* > Really, the First Amendmant interpretation by most of the libs is way too broad. Moore’s acknowledgment of the Christian roots of the US is in no way establishing a state religion. Refutation of the first sentence: That is your opinion and you have not posted a citation to show that (a) there is a statistical proof that a majority of Liberals are interpreting said amendment in said manner, nor (b) that the interpretation in question is, in fact, too broad. Refutation of the second sentence: The United States does not have Christian roots. It has European roots. Try to learn the difference. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/18 "2003-11-13T19:25:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dogface \* > \*\*… Thank you for displaying the utter ignorance that is so typical of your ilk… \*\* Got ilk? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/19 "2003-11-13T19:44:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carrot \* > \*\*[Woohoo!](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36331-2003Nov13.html) > > Now, if we could just get the people in Barrow County to [cut the crap.](http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?ID=76066) \*\* Yeah, and [Cherokee County, too](http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/7183756.htm). If I lived there, I’d be looking for a way to sue my commissioner personally for throwing my tax money down a rathole. They are sure to be sued, sure to lose, and sure to have to pay whopping attorneys’ fees. Monumental waste of tax dollars for nothing. If you want to display the ten commandments, fine. Put it up in your front yard. No one’s stopping you. Just don’t spend my tax money on this silly crusade to put them in the courthouse. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054/20 "2003-11-13T20:26:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Milum \* > Methinks you waste your free thinks wishing for Cher another Oscar. Better you consider that smug and arrogant, out-of-control federal judges have invalidated the election of a state judge properly elected by the people of Alabama. Well, **Milum,** since you have stepped up to the plate as a defender of Moore’s unconstitutional antics, would you care to fulfil the “debates” part of “Great Debates” and tell us why you think this ruling as a travesty? And please, no misguided appeals to the “Christian roots” of the United States, because that one won’t fly around here (see **Monty’s** post above). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-roy-10-commandments-moore-removed/213054.md?page=2)