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Article: The issue at hand.
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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No, the Ten Commandments are not the "cornerstone of our legal heritage," despite Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor saying so on August 21, 2003, when reluctantly complying with the Alabama Supreme Court's order to obey a federal injunction to remove "Roy's Rock," a 2.5 ton Ten Commandments monument, from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building. It had been surreptitiously placed there two years ago by Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He expressed his reasons in a recent radio interview.
They put a symbol of Venus, the goddess of justice, the Greek
goddess of
justice, in front of the courthouse and they haven't moved their
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