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...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...
...believe that the courts have already decided the issue of the Ten Commandments, being that we do have separation of church and state. Judge Roy Moore, under the cover of night, placing the granite monument in the courthouse, is showing a disregard for the very laws that he has taken an oath to uphold. He should be punished and removed not because of his beliefs, but for the total disregard for the laws and courts that this country was founded on. Desmond Flanigan Atlanta...
...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...