By now I'm sure you've heard that, in Alabama, it's now Mr. Roy Moore. The NYTimes article is here. Moore's legal argument is nonsensical. Apparently, his defense had an establishment clause thrust, even though he explicitly forbade other monuments honoring other religious laws and traditions and codes of ethics to be placed beside his Decalogue monument. Hmm... Also pretty clear is the bizarre and fallacious nature of the original reason for the placement of the monument: that U.S. law is based on the Ten Commandments. For one thing (as somebody in The New Yorker mentioned a few weeks ago) he can't possibly be seriously implying that the nation's laws are based even in part on a divine injunction against "coveting" your neighbor's belongings; what else drives free market capitalism? No, the single most twisted thing about the whole Moore matter, and the one thing likely to cause the strangest occurences, is the electorate of the State of Alabama. As the Times article mentions

The court does not have the power to keep a judge off the bench permanently. The last Alabama judge was ousted in 1999 after he was found guilty of financial fraud. The next year, he was re-elected to the same seat.

The crowd outside the courthouse sounded like a lot of fun, what with the drama that Christian LARPers are usually able to perform. And then there's this guy:

One burly man named Matt strutted up the courthouse steps dressed in a green army helmet and flak jacket "to wage war for God."

Of course, there are those of us who are REAL true believers, REAL soldiers for Jesus, REAL Christians, willing to fight for the antiquated, heavily redacted, supremely confusing set of quizzical proscriptions found in the second book of the Jewish Pentateuch. We are those who are NOT scared of Roy Moore being removed from office, NOT scared of those godless justices who suspended then ousted Moore, NOT scared of the repercussions of a countrywide revolution for Christ. We are those who are just going to go ahead and say it: President Roy Moore.