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A moving crew rolled a massive Ten Commandments monument out of the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building on Wednesday to comply with a federal court order, as anguished protesters prayed at the building's steps.
It took about an hour and a-half to lift the 5,280-pound granite marker and roll it from its public site to a private place in the building.
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A federal judge ruled last year that the monument, which Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore installed two years ago, violates the constitution's ban on government promotion of religion and ordered its removal. The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear Moore's request to block removal of the monument; he has said he still plans an appeal to the high court on the merits of the case.
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Demonstrators promised to keep up their protests of the removal.
"They can move it out of view but they can't move it out of our hearts," said Rick Moser, 47, of Woodstock, Ga., a demonstrator outside the building.
OK, Rick. The rest of the class is going to be very, very quiet while you puzzle through the implications of what you just said.
An afternoon hearing had been scheduled in federal court in Mobile on a lawsuit seeking to keep the monument in the rotunda. However, the judge there canceled a hearing planned for Wednesday afternoon and issued a 17-page order saying, in part, that he lacked jurisdiction over the removal order issued by the Thompson in Montgomery.
It took about an hour and a-half to lift the 5,280-pound granite marker and roll it from its public site to a private place in the building.
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A federal judge ruled last year that the monument, which Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore installed two years ago, violates the constitution's ban on government promotion of religion and ordered its removal. The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to hear Moore's request to block removal of the monument; he has said he still plans an appeal to the high court on the merits of the case.
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Demonstrators promised to keep up their protests of the removal.
"They can move it out of view but they can't move it out of our hearts," said Rick Moser, 47, of Woodstock, Ga., a demonstrator outside the building.
OK, Rick. The rest of the class is going to be very, very quiet while you puzzle through the implications of what you just said.
An afternoon hearing had been scheduled in federal court in Mobile on a lawsuit seeking to keep the monument in the rotunda. However, the judge there canceled a hearing planned for Wednesday afternoon and issued a 17-page order saying, in part, that he lacked jurisdiction over the removal order issued by the Thompson in Montgomery.
