Introduction

There have been many attacks upon the traditional heritage and culture of the South over the last generation, but none that are as blatant, perhaps, as that currently being waged against our right to publicly display the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments are the cornerstone of both American and Southern civilization. They have provided the underpinnings of our legal and moral foundations, as well as our religious basis. They are the principles upon which all of our institutions and mores have been predicated.

Because of the never-ending, unscrupulous attacks upon our Christian and constitutional foundations in the South, many elected and appointed officials have attempted to appease the Marxist, anti-Christian enemies of the South by giving in to one of their demands after another. These officials claim, whether sincere or not, that if we are just willing to compromise “some” of our traditions for the sake of “balance,” that it would somehow appease those who have waged cultural war against our People… and then they would be satisfied to cease their constant attacks upon who we are in the South.

But now they have chosen to attack the very core of our civilization… something which could not have even been conceived a mere generation ago… they are bent upon forcing Southerners to remove every public vestige of the Ten Commandments from public eye. Furthermore, this battle has been intentionally made into more than a religious battle over our Christian heritage; the enemy has chosen to use the vehicle of unconstitutional federal courts to wage their vicious attacks, in large part due to the fact that most Southern courts still, to some degree, respect the Constitutional right of states to exercise their sovereignty in this most basic area. Therefore, this issue has become both a Christian AND a States’ Rights battle.

We have reached a point at which there is nothing more to yield… nothing more that can be compromised. We have reached a point at which we, as Southerners, must say, “No more!” In short, the attack upon the Ten Commandments must be A LINE IN THE SAND!

Background

Several years ago, the federal courts usurped legitimate authority and removed both Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and his monument of the Ten Commandments from the Judicial Building which belongs to the people of Alabama. Where were the governor and attorney general of Alabama during this attack? They were standing AGAINST Justice Moore for the purpose of campaign funds for re-election and the promises of federal appointments by the Bush Administration in Washington (which both happened within weeks of their betrayal of the people of Alabama).

Again, in recent years, the federal courts unconstitutionally claimed the right to hear the case of an “anonymous” plaintiff in Barrow County, Georgia to have a donated display of the Ten Commandments removed from the county courthouse there. And, again, where was Governor Sonny Perdue of Georgia during this unconstitutional attack upon the sovereignty of the state of Georgia? He sat motionless in Atlanta, paying lip service to his “dedication” to the Ten Commandments, instead of threatening to invoke the same power that Georgia used during the early years of the Constitution in the federal case of Chisholm v. Georgia. At that time, the state of Georgia declared that federal courts did not have jurisdiction over her affairs and that any federal agent attempting to enforce the decision of federal courts within the state would be “hanged by the neck until dead, without benefit of clergy.”

In cases like these all across America, but particularly in the South, the enemy is attacking public displays of the Ten Commandments.

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