At a recent gathering of distinguished Christian and political leaders, my father, Howard Phillips, made the following introductory comments:

Well, this is a day of victory for us and let’s celebrate it. Alabama’s state motto is, ” We dare defend our rights.” Judge Roy Moore who was elected by an overwhelming majority to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama is the living emblem of that motto. Contrary to what some have asserted, Roy Moore has neither advocated nor engaged in civil disobedience. Instead, he has dared to defend his oath of office against judges who have disregarded their oaths to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama as those fundamental laws are written, not as they have been misinterpreted to conform to the constitutionally unfounded doctrine of incorporation and the Lemon test which arbitrarily asserts that religious expression by civil government is valid only if it has a secular purpose. In every action he has taken and in every word he has uttered, Chief Justice Moore has upheld the rule of law against those who wrongly redefine what the rule of law is and how it is to be upheld. The first amendment forbids Congress from making any law concerning an establishment of religion, but it does not forbid the state of Alabama or its chief justice from acknowledging God by placing the Ten Commandments Monument in the rotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building. Article V of the U. S. Constitution spells out ways in which that organic document may be amended. Judicial opinions are not among those ways. Article VI makes clear that every federal and state judge is under the Constitution, not over it. The Tenth Amendment reserves to the states and the people powers not delegated to the federal government and enumerated in the Constitution and not prohibited to the states. Judge Moore has, by his solitary courage, placed at risk his judicial office, his income, and his status not only as a judge, but also as a lawyer. Even as he has gained the obloquy of those peer conscious pragmatists who have either failed to discern the true meaning of the issues at stake or who have decided to conform their stances to what the bar establishment has deemed acceptable.

A graduate of West Point, a decorated Vietnam veteran, a faithful husband and father, and a devout Christian, Judge Roy Moore has set a standard for judicial integrity, which merits emulation. He has given us the opportunity to challenge the anti-Christian forces in our culture and in our government. Let us not fail to seize the moment. Let us not fail to support Judge Roy Moore. Let us not fail to embrace him, to encourage him, to approve him, and to advance his cause which is without doubt our cause. Condemned by a liberal media, sued by leftist lawyers who seek enrichment for more than a million dollars in tax subsidized legal fees, prosecuted by one who supposedly shares his principles, suspended by lesser men, but lifted up by the prayers of millions of Christians throughout the United States, Roy Moore each day risks his life and his fortune, but never his sacred honor. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Alabama’s most faithful and popular public servant, God’s man for these times, the elected chief justice of the state of Alabama, the honorable Roy Moore.