Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

I 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.

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.