<\/P> Meantime, here is Separation of church and state is at the heart of the matter, of course, not design — Yesterday’s item asking about the design of the granite Ten Commandments monument that was ordered removed from the rotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building brought a response from blogger Mac Diva that may help clear up the mystery. He writes: Jan, it appears the design of the monument was worked out between [Alabama Chief Justice Roy] Moore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-5I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nabout the design of the granite Ten Commandments monument that was ordered removed from
\nthe rotunda of Alabama’s state judicial building brought a response from blogger Mac
\nDiva that may help clear up the mystery. He writes: <\/P>
\n
\nJan, it appears the design of the monument was worked out between [
\n<\/STRONG><\/FONT>Moore and James Kennedy, the far-right evangelist whom I suspect was a
\nco-conspirator from the beginning. That may be why it is unsigned.
In
\naddition to the commandments, the big rock features quotes from political figures dear to
\nreactionary and neo-Confederate hearts. I will be posting an expos\u00e9 of that connection to
\nmy blog,
\n
\n
\nthe Web site of American Atheists. (Though an admittedly partial source, it offers a
\nstraightforward report). Apparently, Moore participated in “a promotional effort with a
\nfundamentalist Christian ministry to distribute video tapes showing the stealth placement” of the
\nmonument on the night of July 31, 2001.<\/P>
\n
\nand that has long been an issue for Kennedy, who would like to turn the United States
\ninto a Christian theocracy. Back in 2001, the
\n<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT>
\ncharged<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> that the evangelist’s attack on
\n“church-state separation as an ‘anti-Christian’ lie” [had set] back efforts to avoid religious
\ndivisiveness.” Here is
\nbe fair, here is a
\nthe Web site of Evangelism Explosion.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"