Word: monumentalized
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore knew that placing the Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the state's judicial building was wrong. Otherwise, he wouldn't have felt compelled to sneak around and have it installed during off-hours [LAW, Sept. 1]. His actions disclose his guilt. He should be jailed for breaking the law by disregarding the court order to remove the monument. The U.S. was built upon the premise of separation of church and state in order to preserve freedom of religion. It is ludicrous that someone like Moore, who is assigned to be a protector...
...first thing I saw was a car that was flying like a rocket." AJAY JADHAV, a security guard at a local monument in Bombay, India, site of two terrorist bombings that injured 175 and killed...
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore lost the battle to keep his beloved Ten Commandments monument on view. Last week "Roy's Rock," left, was moved to a back room of his courthouse. But his struggle is not the only one of its kind. Court challenges have been made against Ten Commandments displays on public lands or in government buildings in at least 14 states. Although displays in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin were ordered removed, others in Texas and Pennsylvania were permitted to stay. --By Elisabeth Kauffman...
TEXAS A slab on the grounds of the capitol in Austin was allowed to stay. A judge ruled last October that the monument's location did not indicate religious endorsement by the state...
...Absolutely not! Judge Roy Moore is not the party at fault in this systematic degradation of our nation's religious foundation. Indeed the parties that should be punished are Judge Thompson [the U.S. district court judge who ordered the monument's removal] and secularists that would abandon the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of religious expression and protection of state sovereignty. Steven G. Poyzer Canandaigua...