Ten Commandments Battle to Cost Alabama $500G
A half-a-million dollars—the expense for the courtroom battle over the Ten Commandments display moved from the Alabama courtroom. Looks like the burden of the expense with fall on Alabama taxpayers.
bq.. MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Ousted Chief Justice Roy Moore’s fight to keep a Ten Commandments monument in a courthouse rotunda will cost Alabama taxpayers nearly $550,000, officials said Wednesday.
The state reached a settlement to pay $500,000 in attorneys’ fees and about $49,000 in expenses to lawyers for three organizations that sued Moore.
Under the terms, Americans United for Separation of Church and State receives $190,000, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama $175,000, and the Southern Poverty Law Center $135,000.
Moore was removed from the bench in November for refusing a federal judge’s order to remove the 5,300-pound monument he installed in the summer of 2001. He is appealing.
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I cant believe that this issue has turned out to be a such a big ordeal on both sides…
Doesnt anyone know: As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world’s law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view ... it is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments! There’s not protest about that? Or As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door. There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington, D.C.
Patrick Henry, the patriot and Founding Father of our country said:
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ”.
Hmm….. gives you a little something to think about!!!! It bothers me when this country is called AMERICA…yet minority’s live here as well as caucasians but no matter their religious preference should not have to change the constitution or have it moved cause it offends people. If that’s the case then perhaps they shouldnt be living here in the first place. Im a minority and I abide by the country laws and yes there are some that I dont agree upon but My GOODNESS this has been in place for a quite some itme now. If you go to China or anywhere else you would have to abide by there laws, and of course you dont see them trying to sue the Gov. because it’s Unconstitional!!!! What’s this world coming to…...GREEDY SeLFISH people!!
- Frustrated American Citizen