One of the most important victories in the United States occurred on Tuesday with the Alabama Supreme Court. With more than a 200,000 vote edge over his opponent, Tom Parker (one of the featured speakers at Vision Forum’s Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy) was elected justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
Yes, Alabama voters have spoken. They watched as Roy Moore was thrown out of office. They could do nothing but witness this tragedy of justice (advanced in large part by Bill Pryor and his campaign manager and advisor Karl Rove). But Tom Parker gave Alabama voters the first opportunity to speak to the issue by running against the only incumbent on the Alabama Supreme Court running for re-election in 2004. This incumbent had supported the removal of the Ten Commandments monument and Roy Moore. Tom ran against hopeless odds— being outspent 5-1. He won a great victory in the primary. Yesterday, he won the general election and will assume the position as Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court— the very court that fired him a year ago for his calling the federal order removing the Ten Commandments monument “Judicial Tyranny.”
Remember to pray for Tom and his wife Dottie. This husband and wife team are among the finest kind of Christians you will ever meet. A couple that lives and breathes the Word of God, they believes that being a Christian lawyer means more than passing out tracts to clients. Lawyers and judges must use the practice of law to advance the moral law of God.