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So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom
 
 
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So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom [Hardcover]

Roy Moore (Author), John Perry (Author)
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March 1, 2005
Chief Justice Roy Moore believes the state must acknowledge the moral principles on which America was founded and that it is not illegal to do so. While the separation of church and state may be a credible and legitimate tenet, it has been largely misconstrued and abused during the last forty years.

Moore was sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. His critics, both within conservative circles and without, have maintained that he violated the law by disobeying the order of a federal judge to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments. But Moore brilliantly argues that those who have ordered him to violate his oath have, in fact, broken the law.

So Help Me God will articulate why he believes elected and appointed government officials have the right and the obligation to acknowledge God as the foundation of American government and jurisprudence.


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Moore's refusal to follow a court order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state court building cost him his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. In this fascinating memoir, he reflects on his struggle to comply with the law and be true to his faith. His essential premise is that our Founding Fathers, via the Declaration of Independence, acknowledged the sovereignty of God in the life of our nation, notwithstanding the clause forbidding the establishment of a national religion. He notes the prominence of God in the swearing of oaths and other aspects of court procedures, as well as our nation's continuing Judeo-Christian traditions. Moore sees the efforts by the ACLU and other groups to remove all references to religion as a reflection of the nation's downward moral drift. His passion in asserting his own religious commitment reflects his personal courage in standing up for his beliefs, but for those who do not share them, he also makes a clear case for justifying the sanctions against him. Vernon Ford
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About the Author

John Perry has coauthored books with John MacArthur, Richard Land, Mike Huckabee, among others and written historical books about Charles Colson, the Scopes Monkey Trials, and more. He is a two-time Gold Medallion Award finalist and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 275 pages
  • Publisher: B&H Books; 1St Edition edition (March 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0805432639
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805432633
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,183,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Judge's Oath Before God, April 5, 2010
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I really enjoyed Judge Moore's personal story and how he stood up to the judicial activists who are waging war against this nation's heritage and foundations. I found Judge Moore's book to be an inspiration in an age of men without chests and I enjoyed the way the personal narrative was coupled with historical facts and principles. Both the federal court and the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission ruled against Moore but the good judge never flinched in the face of these advisories. He proved to be more than a match for the small minded legal stooges who opposed him. I recommend the book to anyone who wants to know the real story behind the news reporting and what the legal issues were all about. This event was one of the most important court battles of the decade although few really understand it. Moore not only explains the case issues but why they are at stake and why it is so necessary to stand up to legal idiots like the ones in the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center who attacked him. Moore beautifully explains what an oath means and why he refused to set aside his duty before God just to appease the legal lunacy of the judges. Judge Moore has served his nation and his God courageously and faithfully. I only wish we had more men like him.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not being able to force your belief on others, doesn't = loss of freedom, July 30, 2010
Judge Moore is a shameful example of somebody who's extremely intelligent, but so blinded by his own religiuos perspective, that he ends up supporting an idiotic position. Namely that his "right" to espouse his personal beliefs means that he can then use the power of his government office to force others to acknowledge that particular belief. The easy way to realize this is to simply change the preferred religion. If he had insisted on displaying a copy of the Koran in the lobby of the courthouse, the results would have been entirely different, and he might have been ran out of town. The only one who trampled anyone's rights was Moore himself in trying to foist his beliefs on others. Ex-judge Moore is not a hero, in fact, just the opposite. Yes, it's admirable to stand up for what you believe in, but his job was to protect the people's rights, not to force his beliefs over their rights. He is, at best, a sorry excuse for a constitutional scholar if he can't even get the fundamental basics of equal protection under the law. Hero = NO, shameful example of religious intolerance = YES.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelllent, September 21, 2010
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It's great to read about someone who stills know right from wrong and is not afraid to say it..
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Judges do not normally find themselves on trial in their own courtroom, but then again, there has never been anything normal about the legal issues I have confronted. Read the first page
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Ten Commandments, Alabama Supreme Court, First Amendment, Etowah County, United States Supreme Court, Declaration of Independence, West Point, Alabama Constitution, Alabama Judicial Building, Almighty God, Governor James, Thomas Jefferson, Constitution of Alabama, New York, Eleventh Circuit Court, Bill of Rights, George Washington, Governor Fob James, James Madison, Myron Thompson, Roy Moore, Steve Melchior, Attorney General Bill Pryor, Creator God, Holy Scriptures
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