Go Alabama!

I find the election of Tom Parker to Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court extremely amusing. There's an account of the ceremony when Parker was sworn into office on Doug's Blog at the Vision Forum website. Mr. Parker previously "served as an advisor to former Chief Justice Roy Moore, and an officer of the Alabama Supreme Court,....(but)was fired from his job at the Court by Justice Gorman Houston, for Tom's support of Justice Moore and the biblical view of the rule of law. Tom proceeded to run for Alabama Supreme Court Justice and was resoundingly elected by the people of the state of Alabama. In a blessed turn-around, Tom unseated one of the very members of the Court complicit in the persecution of the Chief Justice and the removal of the Ten Commandments monument."

The people of Alabama elected a man to the Supreme Court of their state who holds to the same beliefs as Roy Moore! Not only that, but a recent poll shows that in a hypothetical primary race for the Republican nomination for governor between the current governor, Bob Riley, and Roy Moore, Moore would win easily. Pure entertainment! :-)

Quoted in the same link above (the poll), here's CONDESCENDING QUOTE OF THE DAY (from USA political scientist Keith Nicholls, who conducted the poll):

"The very idea that 70 percent of (Republicans support) a judge who was removed from office for placing himself above the law is truly shocking," he said. "I think it's pretty clear that they don't understand the concept of separation of church and state. But instead of educating the electorate regarding these most important tenets of democracy, our politicians continue to pander to the public for their own political gain."

Please, Mr. Nicholls, educate us on the concept of separation of church and state.