Ten commandments are really four  Alabama Chief Justice Roy
Moore defied the federal court and every other member of his own
court in his refusal to remove the unconstitutional Ten
Commandments monument from the Alabama state court rotunda. Why
isn't he in jail for contempt of court? His reasoning for his
actions are irrational as well as being historically and
philosophically flawed and he is doing his utmost to stir up
religious fury.  He claims that our judicial system is based on
the Ten Commandments. In actuality, the biblical Israelis
"borrowed" most of their commandments (laws) from the superior
Babylonian Code of Hammurabi written a few hundred years
earlier.  By Moore's reasoning, shouldn't this code also have a
monument placed in its honor in our courts? Justice Moore also
seems to be ignorant that much of the basis of our modern civil
law evolved from the Roman Law of Twelve Tables first formulated
in 451-450 B.C., not The Ten Commandments. Wouldn't this be more
deserving of a monument?  In his fre