How many people do not believe that Judge Moore has some further political office in mind? that he is using his high office and visibility, not to enhance the jurisprudence of his state, but in a calculated political move aimed at enhancing his political career?
As a Republican with a strong sense of religion and of loyalty to the law, I have two observations to make. One is that a defiant Roy Moore in the state courthouse in Montgomery is much more reminiscent of a defiant George Wallace in the same city than he is of Rosa Parks, disobeying the law in the same city. The big difference between Roy Moore and Wallace is that Roy Moore is not defending a state-sponsored evil. One big difference between Roy Moore and Martin King or Rosa Parks is that he is also not fighting a state-sponsored evil.
Another, of course, was that neither King nor Parks had taken an oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
One would think that Mrs. Parks and the King family would be offended by his gall in likening his cause to theirs.
The second is that Judge Moore seems to have overlooked the admonition that Jesus gave, the admonition which quietly supports the concept of separate spheres for politics and for religion, perhaps for the first time in our tradition:
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and render unto God the things that are God's."
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