Stand Up For
What's Right
August 25, 2003
So the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a monument
of the Ten Commandments must be removed from the court rotunda.
The raging cultural cross currents and contradictions boggle the
mind.
A few months ago I visited my son in Washington
D.C. where he was serving as a White House Intern. One night we
visited the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials. Engraved in the
walls of each structure were references to God. Jefferson said,
"Almighty God hath created the mind free, all attempts to
influence it by temporal punishments or burdens... are a
departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion...I
know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or
collectively."
In his second inaugural address Lincoln made
numerous references to God and even spoke of the Bible. His
words engraved in the memorial read, "it must be said 'the
judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.'"
I wonder if those who would remove the memorial
from the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court would erase the
words of Jefferson and Lincoln from their memorials. Would they
have the Ten Commandments removed from the United States Supreme
Court?
Rarely do we see a man with the courage of Chief
Justice, Roy Moore. Because he refused to have the Ten
Commandments removed, as ordered, he has been relieved of his
duties. Moore will fight to maintain the historical connection
between the Ten Commandments and our current system of law. Some
in our country claim a separation of church and state. They
argue that the presence of the Ten Commandments is paramount to
establishing a government religion. Yet our founding fathers
never intended to create a nation free from religion. Nor did
any of them try to separate their own faith from their life.
Christians have been bullied for so long that they
often fail to stand and fight even when they should. Chief
Justice Moore may not win the legal battle, but he's sure to win
the spiritual one. Like Moore, we too need to know when to stand
and fight. After all, we must never forget that evil will
prevail if good men do nothing.
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