Ala. Judge Takes Biblical Laws Case to Md.
Christians' Rights Labeled at Risk

By Tim Craig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 4, 2003; Page A11

The judge who sparked a constitutional showdown this summer when he refused to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building came to Maryland yesterday to preach his case before a sympathetic audience.

Roy S. Moore, the former chief judge of the Alabama Supreme Court, told a gathering in Severna Park that federal judges threaten the right of Christians to practice their faith in public.

\"They told us we can't pray in schools. They told us we can't put up symbols about God,\" Moore told about two dozen people at the Institute on the Constitution, a conservative legal group. \"The next thing they will tell us is we can't acknowledge God.\"

After his speech, Moore joined state Sen. Alexander X. Mooney (R-Frederick) and Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr. (R-Anne Arundel) in endorsing a bill in Congress that would limit federal courts' ability to overturn state laws dealing with religious expression.
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