One step forward…

…one huge fscking leap backwards for Alabama, that most maligned of the Southern States (well, ok…Mississippi certainly counts as well).

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A judge refused to delay a trial Tuesday when an attorney objected to his wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments embroidered on the front in gold.

Yes, you read that right. Ten Commandments. On. His. Robe.

*sigh*

Clearly we have real issue with this whole “seperation separation of church and state” in AL. One more time for those in the back row:

“As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion…” – George Washington, Treaty of Tripoli, 4 November, 1796