ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore declared a spiritual war against government in Annapolis Tuesday.
Moore attracted national attention last year after refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument (pictured, left) in the Alabama judicial building.
Organizers said Tuesday's demonstration was not exclusively about displaying the Ten Commandments. They contend that the moral foundation of America is under attack, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter David Collins reported.
Moore brought his national crusade to the doorstep of Maryland's State House Tuesday morning. He's taking a stand against the federal government, in his words, for denying Americans the right to acknowledge God.
"A lot of people think this was about a monument, or the Ten Commandments or myself as an individual [and] what I believe. It was not. It was about God," Moore said.
Moore attracted national attention after installing a 5,000-pound Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building. Moore was removed from the bench after refusing a federal court order to remove it.
"God gave us rights, government was there to secure them for us. If it doesn't, it should be abolished. We must take a stand against who is denying us the acknowledgement of God," Moore (pictured, left) said.
Frederick County Sen. Alex Mooney, R-District 3, and Anne Crundel County Delegate
Don Dwyer, R-District 31, are sponsoring resolutions supporting Moore. It asks Congress to pass a law that protects the display of the Ten Commandments.
"I find that offensive, the federal court should not be doing this,"
Mooney said.
Some view the invitation to Moore as simply an in-your-face right wing Republican statement, Collins said. But Moore's message crosses party lines.
"If this nation will last, it must stand on the tripod of the education, the political and the religious," Baltimore County Delegate
Emmett Burns Jr., D-District 10, said.
Almost 150 people attended the rally and, according to the governor's press office,
Gov. Bob Ehrlich has not taken a position on this issue. There's no time table yet on when each Legislature will vote on the resolution, Collins reported.
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