Judge Roy Moore was first removed from office for refusing to remove the 'Ten Commandments' from the 'Alabama State Supreme Court', the same 'Ten Commandments' that are in the 'US Supreme Court', as well as a statue of Moses on the gable above the entrance to the 'US Supreme Court'.
Judge Roy Moore was again removed from office for questioning rather the state of Alabama should enforce it's laws, or accept a ruling of the 'US Supreme Court' as changing that law before the Alabama legislature had a chance to review the ruling and change the law. It was again a question of each states' sovereignty, and the question of whether or not the 'US Supreme Court' has the right to change Alabama law.
Both of these were reasonable decisions that were used as political motives to remove a conservative from the 'Alabama State Supreme Court' by the liberals, progressives, and Democrats, who are very unpopular in the state of Alabama, as they are in most states across the USA.
What the 'Founding Fathers' meant when using the word "Creator" in the 'Declaration of Independence' was 'GOD', for as all were Christians, and they all knew that GOD was the creator of everything, even their rights and freedoms.
'Websters Standard Dictionary' definition of a 'Deist' is - "One who believes in creation by a supreme being (GOD) who abstains from involvement in the world or it's inhabitants." This means GOD created everything, man and his rights, but allows a free will in our decisions as what we do in His creation.
The 'Founding Fathers' meant what they wrote, not what the liberals try to twist and spin into something that they want people to believe that achieves their agendas over what was the heritage given to all the American people. A clear example of this is in the 1st Amendment of the 'US Constitution' which says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..." That means only that Congress shall make no law about religion, but also cannot abolish religious exercise by anyone, even those that have government jobs or elected positions in government, or anyone on public or government property, as all the 'Founding Fathers' did when holding government jobs or positions, as they still do today in the 'US Congress' and 'US Supreme Court', but then try to deny the same for the common people in state and local governments, by claiming their is a seperation of state and religion clause in the 'US Constiotution' that doesn't exist, and never has.
Common sense trumps stupidity, but liberals want their politcal correctness to trump common sense, but intelligent people won't accept what liberals try to force on them in order to achieve their liberal goals and agendas. This is what makes Roy Moore such a very good individual who will make a great law maker, and who has more incite on what the 'Founding Fathers' meant and wanted for the USA and it's American people, not wanting to change the USA into something that takes away their Creator's unalienable endowed Rifgts of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Pursuit of Happiness is the individuals right to choose what is best for themselves, rather it truly be or not, and allowed to pursue their choice, instead of some government elitist deciding what is best for them, and then forcing them to accept what the government elitist has chosen for them, instead of pursuing their own choice. That is what is actually unconstitutional in Obamacare, it usurps the people's right to choose for themselves on whether they want or need healthcare insurance, and instead forces everyone to purchase a specific healthcare policy in order to make it become cheaper for those who do want to purchase healthcare policies, which has been proven a lie, but still gives the government the right to force their will on people who wish to choose differently through the Creator's unalienable endowed Right of their Pursuit of Happiness.
By the way, how do you know that Jefferson believed that "the 'Creator' was a naturalist term for the force that created man--be it nature or a god--he didn't know for sure..."? Did he tell you that, or is it that you can read the minds of dead people, because I have read a lot about Thomas Jefferson, and nowhere have I found him writing anything like that.
PeterS wrote:
But Moore was removed from office, TWICE, for having fundamentalist views and Jefferson was a Deist so "Creator" was a naturalist term for the force that created man--be it nature or a god--he didn't know for sure...
And stupidity when it comes to cognitive thinking? Mr Andrew shouldn't write about things he knows nothing about or at least study what the founders meant when they wrote our founding documents.