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jwhardingjwharding Member Posts: 2,897 ✭✭
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
The faces of protest and ridicule

Near the judicial building here, protests are varied. Sunday night, one man climbed up on the building. Police took him away hours later. Across the street from the court, protesters - atheists, Jews, gays, and others - demanded the monument be removed. "We came here to show that a majority of Alabamians want the monument removed now," says Larry Darby, state director for American Atheists. "Roy Moore is a renegade judge, a disgrace to the bench and the bar."

Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, a conservative Republican who's supported Moore in the past, tried to hire the same company to remove the monument that helped Justice Moore sneak it into the courthouse in the middle of the night. The company refused. The plan now is to move the 5,300-pound granite slabs to a closet, then to a less controversial site, such as a church.

Moore wiped sweat from his face during a statement Monday and quoted Patrick Henry: "Should I abandon my conscience now?" Protesters, mostly clad in shorts, shouted "No," as Moore and his blue-suited entourage left for a limousine.

Down the street on a shady bench, Thom-as Green watched people come and go, asking for change for a Coke. "I'm a Christian, but God don't need defending," he says. "Between Alabama and California, they could put Barnum and Bailey out of business."



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Comments

  • jwhardingjwharding Member Posts: 2,897 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    About a Rossi 357 Magnum? I have a bid on one on the auction side.
  • jwhardingjwharding Member Posts: 2,897 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    on Tasco World Class 3-9 x 40 Mil-Dot scope?
    I found one for $55. I am looking for an inexpensive scope under $100 to shoot 100-200 yards.
  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    I agree with the guy on the bench. Only one smart enough to sit in the shade.

    Big Daddy my heros have always been cowboys,they still are it seems
  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,679 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Bad thing about this one is it has me arguing with myself! On the one hand there is nothing in the Constitution about the separation of church and state (read it if you think I've slipped a cog) then come back and argue with me on that one! On the other, opening the door via the posting of the ten commandments or any other religious icon on government property leads to every major and or fringe religion demanding equal time/space for their placement. I can just see it now as we go to get our license renewed, rubbing Buddha's belly, sacrificing a small animal, kneeling and facing East as we genuflect and praise the LAWD while hugging a bit of nature to our bosom!! I'm with you BDJ, I'll take the bench as long as it's near a fence.[;)]

    ***KATN!***
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