Good opinion piece on CNN's website about how Judge Moore in Alabama is comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr., and why that's a false comparison. It comes down to three things: 1) the ruling ordering him to move the monument isn't a burden on a minority group (how can it be oppressive if he's allowed to put the monument in his office?), 2) the judge is a member of a privileged and powerful class, and 3) he could always quit his job, thereby becoming an advocate without using the resources of the state to back him up, which is unfair.
Personally, I'm sick of this guy. "It's not about a monument...It's not about religion. It's about the acknowledgment of almighty God." OK, if God isn't about religion and religion isn't about God, than what is anything about anything? Huh? Now I'm confused! If he's not going to plop down a monument to Hammurabi, who was the first to write a code of law, than perhaps he's being a tad less than honest about what he's doing, hmmm?
--> "Ten Commandments defiance doesn't meet civil disobedience test", Anthony J. Sebok, CNN,
www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/ 08/26/findlaw.analysis.sebok.commandments
