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• Justice refutes Giles claims | Christian Coalition of Alabama head had said Moore and his staff had been unfairly treated (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Debate about monument may affect election | Some independent political observers said the media attention on Moore has at least changed the dynamic of the tax debate (Mobile Register)
  
  
• Protesters form community on steps | Portable toilets and cots brought in for Moore supporters (The Huntsville Times)
  
  
• Final days for Commandments monument | The controversial Ten Commandments monument at the Alabama Judicial Building will be removed by the end of the week, the state's attorney general said Tuesday (CNN)
  
  
• Commandments fray goes beyond Alabama | Christian proponents have been on the losing end of legal battles, but many now feel energized by a new cause (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Alabama judge thrives on controversy | Moore's many critics fear that setbacks will only make the iron-willed jurist stronger (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  

Roy Moore's Ten Commandments fight—opinion:

• Affronts and provocations | What actual harm is Roy's Rock doing to any American? (John Derbyshire, National Review Online)
  
  
• Religious symbols are what you make of them | The more the protesters pray, kneel and prostrate themselves before Moore's imposing rock, the more they undercut their case for keeping it on display on public property (Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Roy's rock | We need to respect the rule of law, but whence do we get this reverence for law, for a few dusty words on paper, interpreted by always fallible and sometimes malicious, ambitious or ignorant men and women in funny costumes? (Maggie Gallagher)
  
  
• Two tons of morality | Those engaged in the controversy in Alabama seem to have lost sight of the Ten Commandments' real meaning (Roy Hoffman, The New York Times)
  
  
• Misinterpreting freedom of religion | Alabama's many, many fundamentalists are being stirred by a demagogue who is fanning their passions, winning their vote loyalty and garnering ever-greater power for himself (James A. Haught, The Charleston Gazette, W.V.)
  
  
• Another diversion | Moore supporters initiate new legal action (Editorial, The Birmingham News)
  
  
• Roy's rock | Alabama residents are wreaking a nasty revenge on the woman who took their state's chief justice to court over his religious monument (Eleanor Clift, Newsweek)
  
  
• George Wallace revisited | Chief Justice Moore tries demagoguery again in Alabama (Editorial, The Day, New London, Ct.)
  
  

Murder of ex-priest jailed for sex abuse:

• Geoghan's death voids conviction, prosecutors say | Upsetting victims of clergy sexual abuse, prosecutors who won a guilty verdict against John J. Geoghan for molesting a 10-year-old boy said yesterday his conviction will be erased because the former priest died while appealing the case (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Inmate says he warned of danger to Geoghan | Accused murderer was looking to commit a hate crime so he could go to federal prison, an inmate told prisoner advocates (Associated Press)
  
  
• Bid to keep Geoghan at Concord was denied | Superintendent at MCI-Concord overruled prison board's recommendation (The Boston)
  
  
• News of ex-priest's death evokes range of emotions | Many were dismayed that Mr. Geoghan could not serve out his prison term and face more charges. Many said they were saddened and felt that no one deserved to die in such a violent manner. Others, however, thought Mr. Geoghan, who was defrocked in 1998, had met an appropriate end (The New York Times)
  
  

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