I AM SO ASHAMED...


that Roy Moore is from Alabama. I am so ashamed of Alabamians who voted him into his job as Chief Justice, I am so ashamed. This from the Washpost.com:
"Roy Moore has been riding the Ten Commandments as a campaign issue since he first struck out for judicial office. And left to his own devices, he intends to ride the Decalogue as far as his appeals to emotions and lust for power will take him.

Mr. Moore managed to get his name on the map -- and his face in the news -- when he was an Alabama circuit court judge. He took the decidedly un-judicial route of defying a court order to remove a hand-carved, wooden plaque of the Ten Commandments from behind the bench in his courtroom. Flushed with the attention and acclaim he won for that stunt and depicting himself as the 'Ten Commandments Judge' and a defender of Alabama against moral decline, Mr. Moore advanced his political career in 2000 by winning an election for the chief justice post.

Mr. Moore's decision to deliberately link his theology to the justice dispensed by the Alabama judiciary, to thumb his nose at the First Amendment prohibition against state establishment of religion, and then to go before an Alabama crowd of thousands and tell them that he will continue to defy a federal court order, recalls the worst days of Alabama Gov. George Wallace's defiance of federal desegregation decrees and is an affront to the rule of law. "

I am so ashamed. It is a shame that my state allows such demogogues hold political office. It is a shame that my state is last in every respect concerning the well-being of its citizens. This latest idiocy proves to the world just how shamefully we act in Alabama.