SBC Leader: Alabama's Chief Justice Should Stand Down
AgapePress) - A Southern Baptist leader says unless Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is ready to start a revolution, he shouldn't continue to defy federal authorities over the moving of the Ten Commandments monument in Montgomery.
The monument has been moved. But Alabama's suspended chief justice is carrying on his fight. In a recent interview, the embattled judge called the federal court order to move the monument from the rotunda of the state judicial building "an unlawful order." Thousands of supporters from around the country have traveled to Montgomery over the past two weeks to show their support -- both for the public display of the Ten Commandments and for Justice Moore himself.
But not all Christian leaders are in concert with Moore's approach to dealing with the controversy. While many -- including Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and former U.N. ambassador Alan Keyes -- have...