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 Aug. 21, 2003:  PoliSat.Com's Political Satire/ Commentary  Daily Update # 01·· ™©·2003 ··
In Court, Judge Moore poses for role as Judge Moses...

Before I proceed I concede
in God I am lacking belief,
but yet I concede
religious beliefs
help many be better than me*.

I also concede Ten Commandments
for laws were historic'ly candent
as civilization
matured into nations
and Man became morally scandent.

I further concede a foundation
for freedom was Tom's Declaration
that rights weren't allowed
but rather endowed
to each upon each's Creation.

However, when passion subsided
on being from England divided,
our Forefathers grasped
the sobering task
of joining what doctrines divided.

Though nationhood instincts were nascent,
the Founders for years remained nescient
on how to emerge
from doctrines diverse
to form what would last as a nation.

On learning a loose federation
did not form the bonds for a nation,
for bonding a union
a new Constitution
they authored for founding a nation.

In contrast to Tom's Declaration
the document founding our nation
omitted assertions
that rights of a person
arose from an act of Creation.

Twas not that they'd ceased to believe
but rather their wisdom perceived
that law shouldn't choose
the doctrinal views
that citizens "ought" to believe.

Such wisdom embraced prohibition
of law to establish religion
by Congress at first,
then states were deterred
from breaking the same prohibition.

Though leftist political junkies
disparage the Doctrinal Fundies,
they're deaf to the tones
of hymns of their own
they're singing as Secular Fundies.

If Moore had displayed in the lobby
the Code of the King, Hamurabi,
as ancestor to
the laws we construe,
the hearts of the Left would be throbbing.

Display of such Code to be seen
as part of the fibers of strings
of hist'ry that led
to justice we've bred
would not be "endorsement" of kings.

But motives that Moore's been explaining
as grounds for his action displaying
the ancient Commandments
appear more than candent--
implying it's faith he's displaying.

But Moore's stubborn conduct is fraying
the sensible grounds for displaying
Commands that inspired
mankind to aspire
to frameworks of laws for obeying.

That Moore made a choice to defy
the fed'ral court's ruling belies
his claiming his motive
included promoting
respect for the law in men's eyes.
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I think religious zealots and secular zealots deserve each other.  Although I'm a non-believer, I find much to admire and respect in courage, nobility and selflessness exhibited by many in trying to live the spirit of their religious faith.  I detest the arrogant self-righteousness of the anti-religious zealotry of those I would classify as Secular Fundamentalists.  Despite the transparently religious motives of Judge Moore in placing the granite display representing the Ten Commandments, it's a historical fact that those Commandments played a large historic role in the moral evolution of Man's willingness to conform his behavior to a standard of law rather than merely the rule of the jungle.  To construe symbolic display of the Commandments on public property as governmental "establishment" of Judaism or Christianity or Deism is to demand that public displays must avoid attributing human progress to religion even when such contribution is historically demonstrable.  Yet Moore's behavior mocks the high principles he claims just as the attitudes of the Priests of Political Correctness reveal about their own Secular Fundamentalism.  Am I alone?  I hope not.  ·*·Poetic license allows me to substitute the grammatically incorrect object-pronoun "me" for the the subject-pronoun "I."  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com. ·
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