For many months I've been telling you the federal court order removing the Ten Commandments from the Alabama courthouse was a violation of the First Amendment.

After reading an interview with Judge Roy Moore, I now realize my position on this case has been wrong.

To reduce this issue to a First Amendment violation does it a grave disservice. It underestimates the importance of what is at stake.

Instead, the issue, as Moore points out in the January-February issue of Business Reform magazine, is the question of who provides the standard for our nation's law and morality.

Ask yourself that question.

Who provides the standard for our nation's law and morality?

Moore doesn't just argue that the Constitution is on his side in this fight. His argument is that God Himself – and His Word – is the foundation for all the laws upon which the court operates and upon which we as a people determine right from wrong.

And if you think this debate doesn't touch your life directly, Moore has news for you.

Moore makes a persuasive case that if this ruling is permitted to stand unchallenged, it will affect every single American in terrible ways they cannot yet even imagine.

"When government excludes God, there is no ownership of property, life and liberty given to man," he says. "Once government takes over that ownership, God's order is greatly disrupted. And part of God's order is private property."

If the federal government can move into what is clearly a sovereign state's jurisdiction and strip away a monument in the state courthouse – one mandated by state law and approved by the people – then Washington can clearly do the same to private individuals, to private businesses. In fact, Moore says, it would be easier for the federal government to do that than interfere in a matter left to the states under the Constitution.

"Men must be controlled by God and His law, not by the government," says Moore. "What happens when the Ten Commandments are taken from our lives is that control over men is lost and the government then comes in to regulate everything."

Instead of men governing their own lives guided by the moral standards of the Bible, arbitrary government force becomes the decisive factor in the life of society.

Moore says there are only two choices – God's way or man's way. And I think he's right.

Federal Judge Myron Thompson, who ordered the Ten Commandments monument removed from the Alabama courthouse, ruled there can be no reference to God in a government building – state, local or federal.

If Thompson's ruling is permitted to stand, it will be the beginning of the end of any mention of God in the public square. Period. End of story.

It's amazing to me that so many otherwise sensible people cannot understand what is at stake in this conflict. It is profound. It is as monumental as any great debate this country has ever had. This is much bigger than the washing-machine-size granite monument in the Alabama courthouse.

Simply, we will not recognize America a decade from now if Thompson's ruling stands. It will open the floodgates of litigation that will strip the country of its national spiritual heritage. It will distort and destroy the meaning of the First Amendment. But, most importantly, it will turn us from a nation established on the rule of law and self-governance to a nation ruled by men, ruled by elites.

I don't want to live in that kind of a country, do you?

It's time to Take America Back.

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