The Bible teaches that the godly in Christ will suffer persecution. One of the most notable examples in our lifetime of an elected official being persecuted for Christ sake is Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court. the facts are not complicated: The Chief Justice believes that he must honor his oath of office to the Constitution which explicitly delcares that the acknowledgement of the Christian God is the foundation for the Alabama legal system. Consistant with that oath and with the mandate of the people of Alabama who elected the Chief Justice in a virtual landslide, he exercised his office of Chief Administrator of the Supreme Court building by placing a monument

For this he has been persecuted and wrongly attacked. Attorney General Bill Pryor, a man closely associated with Karl Rove, has decided to use his office to prosecute the

Not only is this notable, it is extremely rare. When was the last time you saw the highest elected judicial officer of a state (or any ranking official federal or state) be willing to risk everything including his job

take an unqualified stand for Christ

Statement by Herbert W. Titus, attorney for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy S. Moore, regarding the 11th Circuit Court response to an order regarding attorney’s fees for the plaintiff in the case of Glassroth v. Moore.

“Not only does Judge Carnes’ opinion reflect an outrageous misuse of judicial power, it smacks of an attempt to politically rehabilitate Alabama’s Attorney General. As Judge Story points out in his separate opinion there is no legal or factual basis for Judge Carnes’ faulting the Chief Justice for not challenging the attorney fee application. As Judge Story also observed, Attorney General Bill Pryor had just as much opportunity to contest the reasonableness of the attorney fee request, as did the Chief Justice. However, Judge Carnes did not condemn the Attorney General, but gave him a second chance. Judge Carnes’ opinion is just another gratuitous attack on Chief Justice Moore’s integrity, and an unjustified effort to belittle the Chief Justice’s constitutional oath of office. While Judge Carnes may get away with such antics in the protected confines of his courtroom, his personal attack on the Chief Justice will get nowhere with the people of Alabama.”