11/13/03
JUDGE ROY
MOORE AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
By J. Parnell McCarter
Judge Roy Moore, sacked from his position as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court by courts carrying out a clearly secular humanist agenda, commented as follows on the Ten Commandments:
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35568
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“What people don't know is that the
very restrictions on government are contained within the Ten Commandments,
within the two tables of the law. The first table being the duties we owe to
God, the second table being the duties we owe to each other – man's law, under
God's law.
They don't recognize that the First
Amendment guaranteed that Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, the duty we owe to the creator and the manner of
discharging it. The Ten Commandments themselves, in their two tables,
illustrate the fact that government functions under the second table, because
God ordained government to do so. But it did not allow an intrusion into the
freedom of conscience under the first table of the law.
Joseph Storey in 1833, a Supreme
Court Justice for 34 years, said very clearly in his "Commentaries on the
Constitution," "The rights of conscience are, indeed, beyond the just
reach of any human power. They are given by God, and cannot be encroached upon
by human authority, without a criminal disobedience of the precepts of natural,
as well as of revealed religion."
In other words, the First Amendment
guarantees that man will retain freedom of worship because God gave it to them.
So, it's not the right of government, it's not the right of a judge to tell
anybody how to worship God, or that they must. But they must recognize that
that right comes from God, as our founding documents, our organic law, The
Declaration of Independence, says.”
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While there is much to praise and respect in Judge Moore’s courageous stand to uphold the Ten Commandments in public life, his understanding of scripture defies sound exegesis. Moses, Joshua, Hezekiah, David, Josiah and Nehemiah were all praised by God for suppressing false worship in Israel. And the Gentile king of Nineveh during the time of Jonah spared his countrymen from divine judgment by removing false worship in his realm. Was not Nehemiah praised for curtailing Sabbath desecration, even though the fourth commandment is part of the first table of the law? That society which refuses to suppress false religion and false worship, and uphold the first as well as the second table of the law, God will give over to all the sins so prevalent in modern America. So says Holy Writ.