A crew moves the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2003. A U.S. District Judge has ordered the monument moved from public view in the building. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Mo
The fight over the Ten Commandments monument ordered removed from the rotunda of the Alabama judicial building by a federal judge has come to a head as workers removed the two-and-a-half-ton Decalogue from its display area.
It took just a matter of minutes for three workers and a security guard to scoot the washing machine-sized granite stone out of view of television cameras.
Seeking to head off any eruption of violent protest to the move, security guards sifted through the dismayed and angered defenders of "10 Commandments judge" Roy Moore gathered on the steps outside the building.
While most knelt on the ground and prayed, one demonstrator began yelling, "Put it back!"...