Judge Roy Moore for President?
Judge Roy Moore visits Oskaloosa Iowa
Roy Moore is the former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who is also known as the “America’s Ten Commandments Judge”. Moore said on his facebook page that he is, “considering the possibility of forming an exploratory committee for considering a presidential run for 2012.”
Moore was removed as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to have the monument of the Ten Commandments removed from the state courthouse. A federal judge had ordered Moore to remove the monument and in November of 2003, the Alabama’s Court of the Judiciary removed Moore from his position as Chief Justice.
Here is Moore’s statement from his Facebook page: “I wanted to verify that I have not announced as a candidate for the 2012 race. However, I am considering the possibility of forming an exploratory committee ‘test the waters’ on a possible run for office. I love this great nation and I love serving her, since my service in Vietnam — I have yearned to continue my service to this nation.”
Moore has been active with the PeaceMakers Institute and has been active with Pastor Cary Gordon in Iowa on gay marriage and family values. Moore makes no apologies for his Christian beliefs, and has acted accordingly in the past. An example being his stance with the Ten Commandments.
Moore and Gordon had visited Oskaloosa when Judge Roy Moore drew nearly 250 supporters to the William Penn PAC Center on Saturday October 16th 2010 saying:
“The problem with people today, we don’t even know what tyranny is. What is tyranny? William Penn knew what tyranny was. What’s a famous statement he made. “Men shall be governed by the laws of God, or ruled by tyrants.””
“Tyranny is the taking of a right that which no man has a right to. Because that power belongs only to God. But possibly the simplest explanation of tyranny has been said, (I think wrongfully attributed to Thomas Jefferson but it is attributed to him by some). “Where people fear the government there is tyranny, where government fears the people there is liberty. Today people fear our government, because it is taking things no man has a right to.”
This would be another very interesting possible candidate to help bring further debate into the mix.
