Ten Commandments and Judge Roy Moore
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Curious about what has been going on with the Ten Commandments in American society and the American legal system? There are many regular news stories involving the Ten Commandments - Judge Roy Moore has certainly been getting a lot of attention, but he isn't the only public official in the United States who has tried to defend the principle of government endorsement of religion.
Across the United States lawsuits have been filed in an effort to get Ten Commandments monuments, plaques, and posters moved from official government property to private property. To learn more about where these legal challenges are taking place and how they have proceeded, you can browse through the stories here.
Only the initial part of a story is listed - to read the rest, you will have to click on the links. Stories are listed in reverse order, with the most recent news appearing first.
Below is older news involving the Ten Commandments. For the most recent stories, please visit this page which is kept up to date on a regular basis.
Ten Commandments News
-->No Ten Commandments = Enforced Atheism
There's yet another Ten Commandments monument debate, this time in Casper, Wyoming. The city council voted 5-4 to remove the monument and a First Amendment...
Read more...America's Ten Commandments Double Standard
As a nation, America likes to pride itself on being fair and just to all people - but too often fairness just goes right out...
Read more...America Intended as a Christian Nation
Quite a few people sincerely believe that America is a Christian Nation. They don't mean simply that most Americans are Christians or that Christianity has...
Read more...County Official: Citizens Subject Only to God
Are American citizens subject to civil laws? One might think that they should be, but not all Christians agree - including some government officials. It...
Read more...Black Church Allies with KKK
Politics can make for some strange bedfellows. Perhaps the strangest such union in quite a long time is the recent alliance between members of a...
Read more...Roy Moore: God's Law Stands Alone
Some people supporting the display of the Ten Commandments on government property argue that it would be appropriate if done in the context of other...
Read more...Evangelicals At Odds Over Ten Commandments
The question of whether or not the government should endorse and promote the message of the Ten Commandments is creating a bit of a rift...
Read more...Ten Commandments: Foundation of Ohio's Government?
Ohio State Representative Mike Gilb has introduced a resolution to the Ohio legislature to have the Ten Commandments declared the moral foundation of Ohio's government....
Read more...America Belongs to Christians?
There are quite a few people who believe that America isn't simply a Christian Nation, but that America as a nation belongs to Christians -...
Read more...No Appeal Over Chester County Ten Commandments
Since 2001, the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia announced Friday and the American Civil Liberties Union have been involved in legal battles over a Ten...
Read more...Case for Christian Insurrection
Many have argued that when Roy Moore refused to move the Ten Commandments monument when so ordered by a higher court, he actually disobeyed biblical...
Read more...Racial Divide Over Ten Commandments Monument
People who have paid attention to the large groups in Alabama who have engaged in public demonstrations in defense of the Ten Commandments may have...
Read more...Ten Commandments: Love it or Leave America
According to some, the Ten Commandments is the foundation of American law; that is a debatable point, but what is perhaps more interesting is the...
Read more...Roy Moore v. Roger Williams: Two visions of America
Roy Moore has never tried to hide the fact that he has a vision for America - a theocratic vision in which his brand of ...
Read more...Words to Live By
Although we commonly hear from Christians who want to use the government to promote and endorse the Ten Commandments, there are many Christians who want ...
Read more...God vs. Constitution
Is the American Constitution really dependent upon God and God's law, or are the two actually opposing forces, one religious and the other secular? That's ...
Read more...Ten Commandments Flap Is Bogus
Is it really the job of the government to defend or proclaim a particular religious faith held by some, or even a majority, of citizens ...
Read more...Ten Commandments Preservation Act
Every year since he joined Congress in 1996, Robert Aderholt has tried to get his "Ten Commandments Preservation Act" passed. Every year, it gets dropped ...
Read more...Stacked Decalogue
If the Ten Commandments can be described as the foundation of American law, then surely it follows that anything forbidden by the Commandments are also ...
Read more...Ten Commandments Monument in Florida
Religious ceremonies are bound to be popular on September 11, the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. In ...
Read more...Can the State Acknowledge God?
According to Judge Roy Moore and many of his supporters, the real issue behind the debate over the display of the Ten Commandments is not ...
Read more...Christian Opposed to Ten Commandments Display
It shouldn't be assumed that all Christians favor government displays of the Ten Commandments. Just because someone is a Christian doesn't mean that they also ...
Read more...Ten Commandments As Law
Those who defend government displays of the Ten Commandments frequently argue that the Commandments are the basis for American law. As a result, such displays ...
Read more...Washington Ten Commandments Display Challenged
Alabama isn't the location of the only contentious Ten Commandments display in America. Numerous other displays have existed and have been challenged; the most recent ...
Read more...God and Government
It is interesting to see in Alabama how some Christians support tax reform based upon Christian principles (like taking care of the poor) while other ...
Read more...Judge Keeps Burning Cross in Courtroom
If our courts and court buildings should display some Christian symbols, why not other Christian symbols? There's no need to stop at the Ten Commandments...
Read more...Battle of Montgomery: Where Should Christians Stand?
Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument forces a difficult choice on Christians: should they support the rule of law and let the monument be taken away,...
Read more...Help Smite the Constitution
Supporters of Roy Moore and his massive Ten Commandments monument probably don't realize how ridiculous they sometimes sound when they make their calls for a...
Read more...Republicans Battling Republicans Over Ten Commandments
Social and political conservatives are generally supportive of Judge Roy Moore's efforts to use the power and authority of government to promote the Ten Commandments....
Read more...Corruption of Justice
Is justice necessarily corrupted when God is not acknowledged? That is what some supporters of the Ten Commandments monument in Alabama believe. According to them,...
Read more...America Is Not a Christian Nation
A principle defense of the presence of Ten Commandments displays is the idea that America is a "Christian Nation" founded upon a covenant with God;...
Read more...Who's Behind the Ten Commandments?
Not all Christians want their government to promote the Ten Commandments, not even all evangelical Christians. So who are, then, the Christians who are most...
Read more...Evangelicals Split On Legitimacy of American Government
The controversy over the Ten Commandments is causing evangelical Christians to split over whether the American government is a legitimate sovereign power which should be...
Read more...What Good Are The Ten Commandments?
Many of those who insist that the government is justified in publicly posting, supporting, and endorsing the Ten Commandments argue that in doing so, the...
Read more...Alternate Universe: Monument to Cthulhu
Fundamentalists and other conservative Christians have gone to a great deal of effort to defend the idea that the government should promote and endorse their...
Read more...Ten Commandments as a Republican Wedge Issue
Is it possible that the flap over the Ten Commandments in Alabama could help the Republican Party? Some thing so - it may be that...
Read more...Roy Moore vs. Martin Luther King
In his defiance of higher court rulings, Judge Roy Moore has compared himself and his cause to Martin Luther King and the efforts of other...
Read more...Why Laws Based On Religion Create Problems
What would happen if people tried to get Hindu teachers kicked out of a public school because they violated three of the Ten Commandments and,...
Read more...NEWS: Ten Commandments Monument Moved
According to Alabama state officials, Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument has been moved to a new location in the Alabama Judicial Building. For now it...
Read more...Religious Right Reinvigorated by Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments have become a rallying cry for people on the Religious Right - it is perceived as a sure-to-win issue in large part...
Read more...Missouri Ten Commandments
Although the debate over the status of a Ten Commandments monument in Alabama has taken much of the media's attention, there is another in Missouri...
Read more...Congress Undermining the Constitution
What happens when the courts issue an order that isn't very popular? For some in Congress, the answer seems to be to try and deny...
Read more...Conservatives Uneasy With Roy Moore
The popular image in the media is that Judge Roy Moore receives a great deal of support from the Religious Right and from religious conservatives....
Read more...Mandala Huggers Arrested
With the media broadcasting images of evangelical Christians being arrested over their attempts to make sure that the government continues expressing support and preference for...
Read more...Death Threats for Moore's Opponent
Although there has been a great deal of media attention on the trials and travails of Roy Moore in his effort to retain a massive...
Read more...Judge Roy Moore's Anti-Catholicism
Recently a number of conservative Republicans complained that Democratic Senators had been using religious tests which effectively prohibited devout Catholics from being appointed as federal...
Read more...Religion's Place in the Public Square
Quite often, debates about the appropriate relationship between religion and government involved the appropriate place of religion in the so-called "Public Square." This public square...
Read more...Thou Shalt Not Sponsor Religion
What's so difficult about the idea that the government should not sponsor religion, religious expression, and religious displays? Some Christians seem to believe that a...
Read more...Devout Christian Led Move to Remove Monument
The conflict over the Ten Commandments monument in Alabama has often been portrayed as one pitting Christians against non-Christians, secularists, and/or atheists - but that...
Read more...Profile of Roy Moore: No Compromise
Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, is playing a pivotal role in the modern culture war that has been slowing latching on...
Read more...Roy Moore: National Hero
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is regarded by many as a religious fanatic because of his insistence that as an elected public official, he has...
Read more...Mailbag: Moore and a Christian United States
From: "Stuart" Subject: Moore and a Christian United States It is a historical fact that neither you nor those opposed to our belief in God...
Read more...God Bless Roy Moore?
There are many Christian Nationalists who believe that American law was founded upon and is defined by the Ten Commandments. Theirs is no mere argument...
Read more...NEWSFLASH! Roy Moore Suspended
Because of his refusal to remove a gigantic monument of the Ten Commandments that was placed in the Alabama state court house, the Judicial Inquiry...
Read more...La Crosse To Fight for Ten Commandments
The mayor of La Crosse, Wisconsin wanted to obey a federal court order to move a Ten Commandments monument from public land to private land....
Read more...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...
Read more...La Crosse Ten Commandments Monument to Go
In July a federal judged ruled that a Ten Commandments monument in La Crosse, Wisconsin had to come down because it violated the separation of...
Read more...Poll: Most Americans OK With Ten Commandments
Although courts usually side with those who complain about Ten Commandments monuments, ruling that they are endorsements of religion and must come down, a recent...
Read more...Ten Commandments Stay in Pittsburgh
Because of the decision of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow a Ten Commandments plaque to remain on the courthouse in Chester...
Read more...Arizona Governor Defends the Ten Commandments
Why won't Governor Janet Napolitano remove a Ten Commandments monument from a state-owned park? She agrees that most of the case law on the issue...
Read more...Civil Disobedience in Defense of the Ten Commandments
It is understood that fundamentalists are upset over the idea that the government shouldn't be allowed to promote Christianity by posting a Christian version of...
Read more...Utah Ten Commandments Monuments to Move
Scattered across Utah are nine monuments displaying the Ten Commandments donated to various local governments by the Fraternal Order of Eagles through the 1960s and...
Read more...Barrow County to Defend Ten Commandments
People in Barrow County, Georgia, believe that the Ten Commandments form an important basis of American law - so important, in fact, that they are...
Read more...Moore's Ten Commandments Monument Must Go!
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with separationists when it ruled that the 2 1/2-ton granite Ten Commandments monument erected by Judge Roy Moore...
Read more...Ten Commandments Plaque Challenged in Georgia
At some point an identified citizen put up a display of the Ten Commandments in a courthouse in Barrow County, Georgia. County Commissioners, who didn't...
Read more...Ten Commandments Plaque to Stay
Robert Freedberg, president of Northampton County, New Jersey, has announced that a plaque displaying the Ten Commandments will stay right where it is. He based...
Read more...Court Upholds Ten Commandments Plaque
According to the Third Circuit Court, the Chester County courthouse (in the Philadelphia suburbs) can keep a plaque of the Ten Commandments despite its inherently...
Read more...Suit Filed to Remove Ten Commandments Monument
In late 2002 the city of Frederick, Maryland sold a tiny sliver of land in a public park where a Ten Commandments monument stood in...
Read more...Ten Commandments Monument: Polk County, Florida
A group led by the Reverend Mickey Carter will be going ahead with the construction and placement of a $150,000 stone pedestal display named the...
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