Alabama Judges Order Ten Commandments Monument Removed

In a move that has outraged Christian Nationalists across Alabama, the eight Associate Justices of the Alabama Supreme Court have given the order to the Ten Commandments monument to be removed from Alabama's court building. This is a brave move, because they are taking their political futures into their hands (these justices are elected), but it is also the legally and morally correct move.

According to Yahoo News:

"The rule of law means that no person, including the chief justice of Alabama, is above the law," said Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, who plans to confer with the justices on Friday to discuss the monument's removal. Moore has fought since 2001 to keep the two-ton granite monument depicting the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments in the court building in Montgomery, Alabama's capital. At a news conference in front of the courthouse, Moore said he was "very disappointed" with his fellow judges' decision. "The fight to defend our constitutional rights to acknowledge God must and will continue," he said to applause.

I have to wonder if this is what Moore planned. The monument was going to be removed, one way or another. The decision of the other justices provides Moore with political cover - the monument is gone now but he can stand tall as someone who never compromised his principles and never gave into the enemy forces of secularism.

Moore can continue on this path, promoting his vision of a Christian America, without having the albatross of that monument hanging from his neck. It is interesting, though, that when people were being arrested for participating in civil disobedience around the monument, Moore wasn't there with them. Didn't he want to show the courage of his convictions, or does that only happen when he has nothing to lose?

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