'$1 and a thank you' campaign launched for Judge Moore

Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments

A new campaign has been launched to show that Christians in America do respect a man who stands by his Christian beliefs, even at great personal loss.

The man being put on a pedestal for this campaign is Judge Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and now a leader of the Foundation for Moral Law and a columnist for WND.

The goal, according to organizer Raymond Dyer, of Cookeville, Tenn., is to have many – perhaps a million – people send Judge Moore a Christmas card – and enclose a single dollar bill.

Dyer told WND that he was reflecting recently on the sacrifices the nation's Founding Fathers made, pledging their personal lives, fortunes and sacred honor, to the concept of a nation founded with the recognition that citizens' rights come from the "Hand of Providence," the Lord God Almighty, not government.

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"I saw his book on my bookshelf, and I said, 'There's one great man right there, he sacrificed his fortune,'" Dyer said.

Moore, of course, was removed from office because he refused to follow what he considered an unlawful federal court's order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from public display in Alabama.

"He had the fortitude to stand for God's word, the Ten Commandments," Dyer told WND. "I said you know it would really be nice to send him a message. And if we could get several people across the U.S. to send him a Christmas card to say, 'Dear Judge Moore, Thank you. We haven't forgotten you.'"

"Judge Moore could have done what the majority of today's people would do by taking the 'easy way' out, saying or doing nothing, and placing personal convenience (job, income & financial security) over principle (God's laws)," Dyer wrote.

But he didn't.

"Now it is our turn to reciprocate and let Judge Moore know that he is appreciated and not forgotten!" Dyer said.

And as a bonus, he said, "We will also be sending a powerful message to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that evil will not prevail in America!"

The plan couldn't be simpler: "You and as many family members and friends that you can contact by e-mail, letter or telephone, are encouraged to send Judge Moore a Christmas card and enclose one dollar ($1.00) or more as a small token of our appreciation for his efforts and sacrifices that he made."

"I have contacted and received a heartfelt appreciation from Judge Moore for this effort," Dyer said.

His goal? "One million Christmas cards for Judge Moore!"

"I ask for your prayers that this undertaking may be blessed by our Creator," he said.

The address is:

Roy S. Moore
P.O. Box 158
Gallant, Ala. 35972

Dyer, a retired Washington, D.C., police officer, said he had followed Moore's case after he installed the Ten Commandments monument, and as various court rulings came down.

"I actually thought, looking at the foundations of moral law in this country, that he would win hands down," Dyer said. But he said it shouldn't have been a surprise, given the politically-correct editing of history that's going on.

He mentioned WND's stories this week on history being revised at the U.S. Supreme Court and the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania.

"I just stand in amazement the way this country has gone," he told WND. Back when he was an officer, he said, his work frequently took him to various governmental buildings in Washington. "Practically every government building that I went into, I saw some reference go God," he said.

"What we need is a positive message that comes out of the Christian community," he said. The cards to Judge Moore, "would be a small tribute, a small token, to say to him, thank you, and maybe others might see it and stand up for Christianity."

Those with questions about the program could contact him by e-mail at rfdyer@frontiernet.net, he said.

The Alabama monument was ordered removed by U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson, and the U.S. Supreme Court, which features a monument to the Ten Commandments within the very chamber that arguments are heard, refused to get involved.

Moore said since the Ten Commandments are the foundation of the U.S. legal system, forbidding that acknowledgment violates the First Amendment's guarantee of free exercise of religion.

Voters in Alabama had elected him chief justice after he campaigned to restore the Ten Commandments to public life.

He had served as a deputy district attorney and later was judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit in Alabama. He now lectures throughout the U.S. and serves as chairman of the Foundation for Moral Law.

He's authored "So Help Me God," as well as "Religion in the Public Square." His commentary can be read weekly at www.wnd.com.

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