Struggling With Faith and the Law

An associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Champ Lyons, Jr., has written a lengthy essay about the intellectual struggle he went through during the whole 10 commandments shenanigans last year. In particular, Lyons lays out very well exactly why he, and the rest of the court, was bound by the federal court orders to remove the monument, even if they disagreed with the result. The essay includes concurring thoughts from numerous right-wing figures who you assume would have continued to take Moore's side on the struggle. While I don't agree with Justice Lyons's view of the First Amendment, his behind the scenes essay is a valuable view of the deliberative process.