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Toto · 01-14-2003, 06:21 PM

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Wading into another hot-button issue, Pryor in 1999 successfully challenged a federal court order that prohibited public school officials from allowing any type of prayers at graduation or commencement exercises and forbade using public address systems for religious messages.

In a speech to the Christian Coalition, Pryor said the victory at the 11th Circuit promoted "the perspective of our Founding Fathers that we derive our rights from God and not from government."

On another religion front, Pryor has been a longtime supporter of Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore and his efforts to display the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building
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crazyfingers · 01-14-2003, 06:54 PM

Oh goody...

hezekiah jones · 01-14-2003, 07:03 PM

*vibrates in paroxysm of rage*

hezekiah jones · 01-15-2003, 05:15 AM

Pryor is hardly undefeated at the Supreme Court, however. Last year, the high court ruled against Pryor's positions in three significant cases touching on crime and punishment.

I recall hearing last June much unsubstantiated blathering from conservatives that the 9th Circuit was the most overturned court in the land. Now I expect to hear from those same conservatives that Pryor is the most overturned state Attorney General in the land.

fromtheright · 01-15-2003, 06:18 PM

hezekiah,

*vibrates in paroxysm of rage*

See! See! I told you! It just makes my heart flutter.

Though I confess that what little I know about Pryor I like, he went after a local (Huntsville, AL) adult shop. That's not quite an accurate description as it is not a seedy establishment, nor is it in a seedy part of town but is in a nice shopping center in a nice business district, with a tasteful storefront. Though its merchandise is much the same as in your average run-down adult bookstore, the videos they sold weren't hard core, they were cable version, soft-core. He lost. My own view is rather torn between a libertarian free speech argument and some attraction to a community standards approach, but I think he chose his target poorly and they should not have been prosecuted.

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01-14-2003, 06:54 PM	#2
crazyfingers Contributor Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 13,699	Oh goody...

01-14-2003, 07:03 PM	#3
hezekiah jones Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: WI Posts: 4,357	vibrates in paroxysm of rage

01-15-2003, 05:15 AM	#4
hezekiah jones Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: WI Posts: 4,357	Pryor is hardly undefeated at the Supreme Court, however. Last year, the high court ruled against Pryor's positions in three significant cases touching on crime and punishment. I recall hearing last June much unsubstantiated blathering from conservatives that the 9th Circuit was the most overturned court in the land. Now I expect to hear from those same conservatives that Pryor is the most overturned state Attorney General in the land.

01-15-2003, 06:18 PM	#5
fromtheright Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 633	hezekiah, *vibrates in paroxysm of rage* See! See! I told you! It just makes my heart flutter. Though I confess that what little I know about Pryor I like, he went after a local (Huntsville, AL) adult shop. That's not quite an accurate description as it is not a seedy establishment, nor is it in a seedy part of town but is in a nice shopping center in a nice business district, with a tasteful storefront. Though its merchandise is much the same as in your average run-down adult bookstore, the videos they sold weren't hard core, they were cable version, soft-core. He lost. My own view is rather torn between a libertarian free speech argument and some attraction to a community standards approach, but I think he chose his target poorly and they should not have been prosecuted.

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