by Carrie Devorah
Posted Dec 19, 2003

On November 13, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary ordered the removal of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore from his post.

The decision resulted from Moore’s refusal to obey what he considered a tyrannical order from a federal judge commanding him to remove a stone monument of the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama supreme court building. (And earned him the title "Human Events' Man of the Year.")

As a follow-up to her first project on religious images in Washington, D.C., public buildings (see "God in the Temples of Government"), HE intern and photojournalist Carrie Devorah took more pictures of religious images and also gathered three U.S. stamps with religious themes.

Will the courts eventually outlaw these images, as they have other religious symbols such as former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument?

If not, why not?

Ms. Devorah is a credentialed investigative photojournalist, who covered international horseracing and local London and Irish news and is interning with HUMAN EVENTS through the National Journalism Center. A native Canadian, she is also an illustrator specializing in the British watercolor technique and is author of a book on the scribal arts.