We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
Roy MooreIt can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
Roy MooreThe time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.
Roy MooreIf you're here tonight to support me, you shouldn't be here. This is not about me. This is about something far more important. It transcends race, it transcends politics, it transcends gender. This is about the laws of God.
Roy MooreThe basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
Roy MooreI was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.
Roy MooreIf they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.
Roy MooreGod has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children
Roy MooreI feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God.
Roy MooreAll the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.
Roy MooreThe monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.
Roy MooreThe whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
Roy MooreI consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.
Roy MooreWe've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.
Roy MooreFalse religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.
Roy MooreAnytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
Roy MooreYou wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.
Roy MooreHomosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it. The homosexual conduct of a parent - conduct involving a sexual relationship between two persons of the same gender - creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody.
Roy MooreThat's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law.
Roy MooreThe free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].
Roy MooreI must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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