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Battle over Commandments monument part of larger `culture war'.
Byline: Mark I. Pinsky
ORLANDO, Fla. _ Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's pugnacious campaign to make the Ten Commandments the rock on which to build his view of church-state relations in America is almost over.
On Wednesday in Montgomery, a moving company shifted the 5,300-pound monument from the Alabama Judicial Building's rotunda to another area of the building, and the state's attorney general predicted it would be removed entirely by the end of the week.
The judge's effort to redraw the line between church and state has struck a responsive chord among evangelical Christians hungry for a champion in the nation's "culture war," but it was doomed, even conservative attorneys say.
"You can't ethically advise your client to disobey a court's order, no matter how much you disagree with the order," said Matt Staver, of Liberty Counsel, a Longwood firm specializing in church-state issues.
The controversy over the Ten Commandments in Alabama evolved into a test of sovereignty between the federal government and one state judge, with a preordained outcome. But, in a larger sense, it is the latest round of a 200-year debate on the division between government and religion.
Installation of the monument in the summer of 2001 provided a rallying point for those who think religion should be front and center in public life _ and that Christianity is under assault.
"I do think it's part of the larger culture war," said…
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