Roy Moore
But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.Collection: Government
The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe.
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
To do my duty, I must obey God.
But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.
But I have made no plans to run for any office right now.
Power's not what the Constitution was about.
The Constitution was about a limitation on power.
Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.
I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.
No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.
The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.
Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.
And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.
The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God.
The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.
They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.
They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
Rights come from God, not from government.
If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity. [because none of the other religions are legitimate religions.].Collection: Exercise
You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.Collection: Prayer
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it. The homosexual conduct of a parent - conduct involving a sexual relationship between two persons of the same gender - creates a strong presumption of unfitness that alone is sufficient justification for denying that parent custody.Collection: Strong
There is no such thing as evolution.Collection: Evolution
Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.Collection: Government
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!Collection: Jobs
False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way, are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.Collection: Islam
I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.Collection: Scary
We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.Collection: Baby
Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.Collection: Fighting
To restore morality we must first recognize the source from which all morality springs. From our earliest history in 1776 when we were declared to be the United States of America, our forefathers recognized the sovereignty of God.Collection: Spring
I feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God.Collection: Prayer
Worship With Your Vote.Collection: Scary
The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.Collection: Order
Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.Collection: Believe
I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.Collection: Prayer
God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our childrenCollection: God
All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.Collection: Prayer
If they want to get [my statue of] the Commandments, they're going to have to get me first.Collection: Scary