Judge Roy Moore says Obama needs law lesson

Judge Roy Moore says Obama needs law lesson

The man known as the "Ten Commandments Judge" says recent comments by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at a campaign stop in Iowa show the Illinois senator doesn't understand religious freedom and the importance of recognizing God as the source of law.

At a campaign stop in Denison, Iowa, Senator Obama (D-Illinois) was asked about the controversy over the display of a Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building when Roy Moore was chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Obama replied that the monument would tend to give non-believers the "feeling that [they] wouldn't be treated as fairly as a Christian." He went on to state that, "We want everybody to feel they are treated equally."

However, Judge Moore says Obama fails to realize law is not about feeling. "He doesn't understand, obviously, that religious freedom comes from God," the judge contends, "and we must acknowledge God as a state and as a people. This type of feel-good philosophy that he's espousing leads to things like taking 'under God' out of the Pledge, and 'in God we trust' off our money, and Christianity out of our lives, and it should be stopped."

The former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice says Obama "speaks out of both sides of his mouth" when he calls himself a Christian yet supports abortion and claims homosexuality is not immoral. But the senator is not alone, the judge asserts; he says the main candidates being touted by the press simply do not understand America's religious heritage.

"I'm really concerned," Moore notes, "not only for our Christian values and what's happening to Christianity in this country, but what's happening to the country in general, how we're losing our sovereignty, how we're bowing down to foreign governments and giving up the rights and liberties which our forefathers fought to preserve."

Moore says he is challenging Senator Obama to a debate in light of the presidential candidate's criticism of the judge's display of the Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building.