TV Preacher Kennedy seeks donations for Alabama's Judge Moore. (People & Events).Television evangelist D. James Kennedy Dennis James Kennedy, (November 3 1930 – September 5 2007) was an American televangelist and founder of the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was senior pastor from 1960 until his death in 2007. has launched a major fund-raising drive Noun 1. fund-raising drive - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising campaign, fund-raising effort crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported to support Roy Moore For the baseball player, see . Roy Moore is a controversial American jurist and politician noted for his refusal, as the elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse despite orders from a federal court , the Alabama Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, elected in partisan elections for staggered six year terms. chief justice being sued by Americans United for erecting a Ten Commandments display in the courthouse. In a letter dated Dec. 27, Kennedy writes, "I had hoped that I could avoid writing this letter to you. But anti-virtue forces continue to escalate their persecution of our friend, Alabama's Chief Justice Roy Moore ... because of his stand for the Ten Commandments and America's Christian heritage." Kennedy asserts that the case could go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and asks for prayers -- and cash -- from his supporters. "I would like to provide $200,000 to help with the legal fees, discovery and research, and expert testimony Testimony about a scientific, technical, or professional issue given by a person qualified to testify because of familiarity with the subject or special training in the field. in Chief Justice Moore's case," writes Kennedy. "This is a large amount of support -- and it comes at a time when Coral Ridge Ministries finds itself in a very difficult financial situation." Kennedy also asks supporters to sign "A Note of Encouragement" to Moore that reads in part, "Your courage and perseverance in upholding God's truth is an example to us all and will preserve all of our religious liberties." Moore became a hero to several Religious Right groups when, as a local judge in Etowah County in 1994, he refused to remove a hand-carved Ten Commandments plaque from his courtroom. The American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. filed suit against Moore, but the case, which eventually reached the Alabama Supreme Court, was dismissed on technical grounds. Moore used the notoriety he won from that battle to run for chief justice of the Alabama high court in 2000. On July 31, he waited until the state Supreme Court building in Montgomery was empty then arranged to have a two-ton granite sculpture of the Ten Commandments brought into the lobby. Americans United and the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. of Alabama filed suit against the display on Oct. 30. (See "Monumental Mistake," December 2001 Church & State.) Americans United's case against Moore, Johnson v. Hobson, is ongoing and is pending in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. |
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