False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.

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

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

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

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

The 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.

There is no such thing as evolution.