A Poem

[calibrator]

The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama. Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama. The judge's poem sums it up quite well.

America the Beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.


Babies piled in dumpsters,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty;
your house is on the sand.


Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine,
Choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain.


From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray.


We've kept God in our temples,
how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.


We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges
who throw reason out the door,


Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.


You think that God's not angry,
that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?


How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?


If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:


Then God will hear from Heaven
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.


But, America the Beautiful,
if you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee.


~Judge Roy Moore


IN GOD WE TRUST

 

[jimntx]

The man is an embarrassment to the beautiful state of Alabama. He's a living breathing example of what Gandhi was talking about when he said, "Having read the teachings of Jesus Christ, I could very well have been a Christian if I had not met so many of them."

 

[700UW]

I wonder what the judge thinks of someone who violates the Ten Commandments?

 

[ASH]

www.wayofthemaster.com

 

[sentrido]

I think judge Roy Moor's mistake is that he has forggotten or never learned that it is his job (and any judge for that matter) to judge our LAWS, and GOD's job to judge our SOULS.

 

[USAir757]

Our government was established on a foundation of faith. There is a place for religion in our system, and the more we deny and abandon that, the worse off we will be.

 

[jimntx]

Well, no it wasn't. The God referred to by such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence is [Jefferson's words] Nature's God. This is the term used by deists of the time. The deists did not deny or confirm the possible existence of a supreme being. They did, however, actively deny that such a being would involve itself in the day to day operations of the world and its people, and certainly denied the divinity of Jesus.

"Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."

-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
(in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom)

 

[sentrido]

There is a place for religion in our system, and it is in our lives ( if we are so inclined ), not our government.

 

[MrAeroMan]

I think judge Roy Moor's mistake is that he has forggotten or never learned that it is his job (and any judge for that matter) to judge our LAWS, and GOD's job to judge our SOULS.

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A judge's job is to judge using LAWS. A novel idea that maybe several members of our Supreme Court should remember when agreeing to hear a new case. Instead we have judges making law from the bench rather than their job. They're the ones that gave us the quote that our constitution is a "living and breathing" document. Yeah right....

 

[sentrido]

Sure, whatever, but the Supreme court can do whatever it wants. It doesnt matter waht a lower court does cause it can always go to the Supreme court. check and balances....

I'm not acusing you of this mind set Aero, but a lot of people with that point of view arent neccesarrily against 'activist judges', just the ones that dont agree with thier opinion.

 

[MrAeroMan]

That can be said about anybodys opinion. I am against activist judges whether I agree with them or not. I disagree with a lot of the opinions from the Supreme Court but if they did their job and followed the law and precedent then that's where the chips fall. I just am of a different viewpoint than the majority of the court. I don't feel judges should be making laws from the bench. It's not their job.

 

[sentrido]

This is an intersting subject I hear about a lot, but nobody seems to ever actually want to talk about. So what decissions do you ( or anyone else ) disagree with?