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First Amendment only protects Christians
May 6, 2014 at 10:34 pm
Quote:Alabama’s chief justice offered an unusual interpretation of the U.S. Constitution in a newly-released video, telling a religious organization that the First Amendment only protects Christianity.
“They didn’t bring the Koran over on the pilgrim ship, the Mayflower” Chief Justice Roy Moore announced at the Pastor for Life Luncheon, an event hosted in January by Pro-Life Mississippi. In a video obtained and released by Raw Story last Friday, Moore told his audience that religion in the First Amendment only applied to the God in the Bible.
“Let’s get real. Let’s learn our history. Let’s stop playing games,” said Moore at the Jackson, Miss. event.
“Everybody, to include the U.S. Supreme Court, has been deceived as to one little word in the First Amendment called ‘religion.’ They can’t define it,” the state’s chief justice said. “They can’t define it the way Mason, Madison and even the United State Supreme Court defined it, ‘the duties we owe to the creator and the manner of discharging it.’ They don’t want to do that, because that acknowledges a creator god.”
“Buddha didn’t create us. Mohammed didn’t create us. It’s the god of the Holy Scriptures,” said Moore.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/judge...christians
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 6, 2014 at 10:39 pm
This idiots will claim anything to win favour for their own beliefs. No, the Qur'an wasn't aboard the Mayflower, but it seems smallpox infected blankets may have been.
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 6, 2014 at 10:44 pm
If that is what he said, then he is not fit to serve on any Constitutional court, and should be impeached.
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 6, 2014 at 10:52 pm
Well..... it is fucking Alabama, man.
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 6, 2014 at 10:53 pm
(May 6, 2014 at 10:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Well..... it is fucking Alabama, man.
The last person I knew from Alabama was very happy when he moved to New York.
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 6, 2014 at 10:55 pm
I was *ecstatic* to GTFO out of Alabama.
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 7, 2014 at 9:29 am
Moore is the same idiot who gave us the 10 Commandments fiasco in Alabama. Funny that he should rail against others' lack of historical sense while pointing to the Pilgrims, who didn't found the U.S. or create our constitution. Hell, I have socks that know more about U.S. history and the Bill of Rights than this asshole.
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 7, 2014 at 9:42 am
It probably comes as no surprise to anybody, but the guy displays criminal ignorance of the things he's talking about here: Mohammed really didn't create us, but Islam doesn't even assert that he did, so...
What a fucking moron.
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RE: First Amendment only protects Christians
May 7, 2014 at 10:15 am
Alabama is one of those ignorant states that will live in the past for as long as it can. I suspect it will be one of the last states to advance and progress into the future. Hell, some of them there folk think the south is still gonna do it again. It sucks.....as beautiful as some of the southern states are, a lot of the people down here are complete morons.
