Judge Roy Moore & Foundation to Defend Alabama Town Signs
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MONTGOMERY, AL — The Foundation for Moral Law, a national religious-liberties organization, has agreed to defend the Town of Sylvania, Alabama, which recently received legal threats from the atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation for town welcome signs that include the phrase “One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.”
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, founder and President of the Foundation, stated:
“The Freedom From Religion Foundation has an agenda to remove any acknowledgement of God or religion from the public square and are trying to bully towns like Sylvania with threatening letters that grossly misrepresent the Constitution. Sylvania refuses to be bullied by the anti-religious sentiment of the FFRF. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution stands for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion, and we look forward to representing Sylvania in this important matter.”
Despite the fact that the Town has never received any objection to the phrase on the welcome signs, the Wisconsin-based atheists at Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a threatening letter, dated April 17, 2012 (http://ffrf NULL.org/uploads/legal/SylvaniaAL NULL.pdf), to the former mayor of Sylvania claiming the signs were “reprehensible,” “egregious,” and a “blatant violation of the Constitution.” FFRF has demanded the phrases be immediately censored from all of Sylvania’s welcome signs.
Although the then-mayor removed the phrase from the signs, the Town voted last week to restore the phrase back to the signs. The Foundation for Moral Law has agreed to provide free legal defense to the people of Sylvania against any action taken against their welcome signs.
The Foundation for Moral Law, a national non-profit legal organization, is located in Montgomery, Alabama, and is dedicated to restoring the knowledge of God in law and government through litigation and education relating to moral issues and religious liberty cases.
Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 @ 4:12PM
Categories: News
Tags: Constitution, signs, Sylvania, welcome
The first amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The atheists just need to get over themselves.
The First Amendment not only provides us freedom of religion in our private lives (Freedom of Religion clause), it also provides us a government free from religion (Establishment Clause). The Christians need to get over themselves and stop imposing their religion into America’s government. Atheists are correct in this matter. Cities such as Sylvania may not endorse religion.
As Christians we all are required to take a stand for our right to serve our savior Jesus Christ and teach others. I am very proud that there are people such as judge Moore willing to do this. God bless America !
You Christians can take a stand for your religion in private situations but you may not impose your religion into our government. Why? Because our First Amendment provides us a government free from religion. It’s called the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. This Establishment Clause provides us a wall of separation between state and church. Keep your Christian dogma in your minds, homes, and churches, and keep it out of our government. Judge Moore needs to learn about the Establishment Clause. He can be a Christian all he wants in his private life but as a representative of government, he must abide by the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause and he needs to respect that clause.
Babs, the Constitution protects religion. By nature, government cannot be religous, because it owes no duty to the creator. People, on the other hand, owe a duty, and government protects the right of people to discharge that duty as well as the right to omit the same. While governments are instituted among men, it derives its powers from the consent of the governed. Ours is a Christian constitution, and if it is not liked, then it can be ignored, but especially not by government officials. For this reason, the acknowledgment of God is bedrock to our government; and, with this, lovers of freedom agree.
Babs,
No, the Constitution says the government may make NO LAW with respect to religion and THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. There is NOTHING in the Constitution saying that government officials cannot read, promote, and uphold scripture. PERIOD! Only that they cannot setup a church-state where a CERTAIN church-like the Roman Catholic Church-can control every other church-and force the other churches into submission, neither can the government tell the churches what to preach and teach and who to hire. The phrase “separation of church and state” is NOT in the Constitution of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA-it is in the Constitution of the SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC. And also, why should we put up with the religion of Atheism being the supreme law of the land and harassing people in and out of the government who want to put up scripture signs on their town halls or any other place. If the “Freedom From Religion Foundation” want to come all the way from WISCONSIN so they can be offended by a little sign and tell the people in Alabama what they can or can not publish on their own signs, I have one word for them-if you don’t want to be offended, don’t go so far out of your way to see how many signs you can find that don’t say something that HURTS YOUR BABY-COD FISHY FEELINGS!
I know what I now write is hopeless because one cannot reason with fanatics and ignoramuses but here goes: l-The constitution does not solely protect religion from gov’t-it protects both from each other; 2-the constitution is emphatically not Christian; 3-America IS a Christian society where 85% of people are nominally Christian and Christianity greatly influences our society and culture but it is NOT a Christian “nation” and was never intended to be such and this was what the Founders made clear and has been validated time and again by the courts..a “nation” refers to the POLITY..the official status and is connected with state sovereignty. There is a place for religion in the public square especially where it is an act of recognition rather than establishment but that place is distinctly LIMITED, can never be COERCIVE, and must NOT be sectarian.
Yours is an organization of Christian triumphalists who wish to intimidate and even oppress all non-Christian believers as well as athiests and agnostics. It is no accident you are based in Alabama, as prejudiced, intolerant and narrow-minded as anywhere in the US.
Dear Mr. Rosenthal: I have read many of your comments about my friend Roy Moore. Anyone who attacks another mans character is guilty of the same narrow mindedness of which you are accusing others of. Roy Moore is a Christian and his Lord is the maker of all things, including you. You do not have a right or authority to denegrade such a man. You are just a fleshly man no different than any other man. However, I say put away your malice, and replace it with kind consideration and brotherly love, and ask the Lord to take you in as one of his lost children. That is an invitation to become a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ and start growing in His wisdom, and knowledge. And become humble in the sight of the Lord. For the Lord loves a humble, and loving man. But He sets His face against the proud and haughty ones. I say open your Bible and begin reading the Proverbs. That is a good place to begin. And may the Lord bless you in your efforts!