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Judge Roy Moore and the Ten Commandments 
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Remember when Roy Moore came to Green Bay? He made headlines
Paul Srubas, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Published 3:03 p.m. CT Nov. 16, 2017 | Updated 8:15 a.m. CT Nov. 17, 2017
An attorney for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is attempting to discredit a woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by Moore in 1977. Phillip Jauregui says a year book she claimed bears Moore's signature doesn't appear to be real. 

That Judge Roy Moore guy who has been making all kinds of news lately has been to Green Bay, you know.

He made news while he was here, too.

That was back almost 20 years ago. Alabama's controversial U.S. Senate candidate was a circuit court judge at the time, but he already was famous, just maybe not as famous as he is now.

As far as I know, he didn’t come to lurk around our shopping malls. He came more as Charlton Heston doing Moses in “The Ten Commandments” than as James Mason doing Humbert Humbert in “Lolita.”

Moore was invited by a local church group to visit Green Bay because he was in a high-profile legal fight to display the Ten Commandments in his courtroom, and the local group was pushing to have a Ten Commandments monument installed at the Brown County Courthouse.

Sidney Vineburg remembers shaking hands with him.

At the time, Vineburg was the rabbi at Cnesses Israel, a Green Bay synagogue. Vineburg led the charge against a proposal to install a Ten Commandments monument at the Brown County Courthouse.

On the day of Moore’s visit, the Press-Gazette published a column co-written by Vineburg and a local pastor decrying the idea of installing a Ten Commandments monument on the courthouse lawn. The article cited all the usual arguments about the First Amendment and the need for separation of church and state.

If the Commandments are, as Vineburg believes, a “profoundly religious statement,” allowing it in a public place defies the separation of church and state. But if it’s reduced to a set of moral suggestions to make it constitutionally allowable, it’s been devalued and secularized, and that isn’t acceptable either, Vineburg argued.  read more