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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"George Washington Hayduke" |
| Date: |
04 Oct 2004 09:34:57 PM |
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Christian extremist denied by Supreme Court |
Supreme Court rejects Commandments case
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from ousted
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who lost his job after defying a
federal order to dismantle a Ten Commandments monument.
Moore has become a high-profile crusader for Ten Commandment monuments
as a result of the dispute over his own 2 1/2-ton granite display in
the state courthouse.
A federal judge ruled that Moore violated the Constitution's ban on
government promotion of religion when he placed the monument in the
rotunda of the judicial building in the middle of the night in 2001.
The display was moved last year over Moore's objections, and a state
court removed him from office.
Moore's lawyers had called on the Supreme Court to "remedy this
travesty of justice" and give him his job back. The high court
declined, without comment.
The Alabama Court of the Judiciary found that Moore violated canons of
judicial ethics when he refused the federal court's order to move the
monument. Moore could try to win back a seat on the court in 2006
elections.
The case is Moore v. Judicial Inquiry Commission of the State of
Alabama, 04-153.
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