Rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them tablets rollin'...
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- Workers relocated the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of Alabama's state judicial building Wednesday morning as supporters of suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore vowed to continue fighting its removal.
About 10 a.m. EDT, workers rolled the monument, on a wooden frame, out of the rotunda and into another part of the building.
Outside, more than 100 supporters of Moore, the judge who had the slab placed in the building in 2001, sang hymns, prayed and lay face-down in what they called a show of repentance.
Decorum keeps me from muttering "Jesus Christ" as that last part.
"I believe that this is going to be a ripple effect across our nation -- at least that's my hope," said Phillip Nunn, who brought his family to Montgomery from Georgetown, Kentucky. "Americans will start realizing that if we don't speak up and if we don't start going to the voting booth, then we're going to have more of this. But if we take a stand, we can make a difference."
A grateful nation thanks you for your sacrifice in bravely supporting the Ten Commandments in the hostile environment of the Deep South. Maybe you could come to Texas next and take a stand in favor of Shiner Bock.
[Protest organizer Rev. Rob] Schenck said the building's manager has told them the monument will be moved to a back hall of the building, out of public view. He called the removal "a morally cowardly act."
"I can only believe it will be temporary, because otherwise they would permanently remove it from the premises," Schenck said. "They're not going to that extent. I think they have a feeling what might happen in the long run."
That's one way of looking at it. Personally, I think the State is waiting until Schenck and his gang of reactionary goobers inevitably skulk off before trucking that baby out of there.
Supporters compared Moore's stand to that of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., arguing that the civil rights movement never would have happened without the defiance of unjust laws.
Words fail me.
[Civil rights lawyer Morris] Dees called that "a bogus comparison." The more appropriate parallel, he said, would be to civil rights-era Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who resisted federal court orders requiring Alabama institutions to accept African-Americans "as a demagogue for the purpose of advancing his political career."
Stop stealing my lines, Dees.
A grateful nation thanks you for your sacrifice in bravely supporting the Ten Commandments in the hostile environment of the......
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1. And God spake to the throng of gawking dipshits thusly: "Thanks for making me look good, asswipes"
2. Something tells me Mr. Nunn didn't make it all the way to 8th grade civics class. You don't vote for federal judges. ALthough, I suppose, you could get enough yahoos for a nice Constitutional amendment. Stick it next to the ones about defining marraige and flag-burning.
3. Until some atheist Bull Connor starts turning the hoses on the rabble, I'd lay off the MLK comparisons.
For starters, my direct ancestry fought and suffered wounds in the American Revolution so that I could have opportunity to display the 10 Commandments and peacefully protest their removal. I served a year in Korea and spent three months on the DMZ and the rest of a four year hitch in the 82nd Abn Inf.
ATTN:NORBIZNESS, My civics are well tuned, as I am aware that the President nominates Federal Judicial Candidates and partisan/liberal Democrat Senators block the up/down votes with filibusters. A tactic that will ultimately backfire. Voters with intellect take note. Tis a shame you folks have no sound argument to advance, just name call and degrade what you don't like. I pity you, but I will put you on my prayer list.
Crap, my liberal university history textbooks must be all bugaboo, since I don't remember the right to display the Ten Commandments as one of the reasons "your ancestors" fought in the Revolutionary War.
Did you not fight and serve in Korea to defend the Constitution of this country? Isn't the 1st Amendment to that same Constitution the very justification behind the removal of this monument?
There is no argument here, Mr. Nunn. Moore was wrong, and he knows it (see my August 25 blog entry). It's the reason he skulked into the Alabama Judicial Building in the middle of the night when no one could stop him and put the thing up.
If they really wanted to punish Moore his suspension would be with David Blaine in a box over the Thames.