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Constitutional Scholar Backs Actions of Chief Justice Moore

This from Newsmax.com...”In an exclusive interview with NewsMax.com, Dr. David Lowenthal, emeritus professor of political Science at Boston College, said the Founding Fathers would be appalled at the federal court order for the removal of the Ten Commandments monument... ‘I would not want to go to jail,’ he said, ‘but if I had to, I wouldn’t give up on the principle’ that Justice Moore is defending ‘that cuts across all lines that [concern] first of all, states’ rights, and ... the proper interpretation of the First Amendment.’... To compare Moore’s refusal to bow to the atheist/left-wing/ACLU axis with George Wallace’s standing in the schoolhouse door to preserve segregation in 1962 is ludicrous, declares Lowenthal, author of the new book “Present Dangers: Rediscovering the First Amendment...As for the decision by Moore’s colleagues on the Alabama Supreme Court to oppose him: ‘It seems to me that any state worth its salt would not submit to this kind of thing.’”

To read the entire article go to http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/8/22/141443.shtml.