MONTGOMERY — At a press conference held on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol on Tuesday, Orange Beach businessman and long-time Roy Moore ally Dean Young showcased a completed a questionnaire from Gov. Kay Ivey expressing her support for Amendment 1, also known as the “Ten Commandments amendment.”
The amendment, which is on the statewide November 6 ballot, would allow for displays of the Ten Commandments, along with the Mayflower Compact, the Magna Carta, the Code of Justinian and the U.S. Constitution, to be in all public schools and public buildings.
“The great governor of the state of Alabama, Governor Ivey, said that she would use all of her available power to do that,” Young said.
Young, also a former Republican congressional candidate for Alabama’s first congressional district, highlighted one specific part of the questionnaire, which he said was sent to both Ivey and her Democratic opponent Walt Maddox. It asked if the gubernatorial candidate would use “all of your available power, authority and influence” to get Ten Commandments displays posted conspicuously “within 3 months of the people of Alabama passing Amendment #1 on the ballot.”
Ivey marked “Yes” on copies of the questionnaire provided to reporters at the press conference. Young said Maddox did not return his. However, AL.com’s Mike Cason reported in an article published Tuesday the Maddox campaign disputes Young’s claim and also opposes passage of the amendment.
Young spoke in defiance of the apparent secularization trend in parts of society and predicted the amendment would ultimately pass.
“I want to make this perfectly clear: On November 6, the people of Alabama will show not only the state but the nation and the world, that we’re tired of the way our country is headed,” he added. “We’re watching the end of the Western Christian empire, and if we don’t do something, we’re going to see the end of our way of life. And I have all the faith in the world in the people of Alabama, and on November 6, red-blooded Alabamians will go to the polls and show the state, and show the nation, and show the world that we do want to get back to God — the basics. When I say God, let me make this very clear, since I wrote the amendment: the Christian God that this nation was founded on. They’re tired of this.”
“You ask me why and I’ll tell you why: Because the people of Alabama are putting a stake in the ground, and the people of Alabama are saying this is far enough — y’all pushed us far enough and we’re not taking this anymore,” he added. “This is as far as we’re going. And let me tell you this — we’re going to start pushing back. This is just the beginning. We’ve watched this country spiral out of control morally. This is the way we take it back. It will happen on November 6.”
Despite the Ten Commandments only being one of the documents that would be on display as a result of the passage of this amendment, Young emphasized the importance of the Ten Commandments among those documents.
“When they see these posted on the wall around all these other documents, they’re going to find out something,” Young said. “One of those documents will be the document, and it will be the Ten Commandments — because you see, that’s why this is called the ‘Ten Commandments amendment’ because it’s all about the Ten Commandments. It’s about the foundation of this country, and we got a document that was written with the very finger of God that says this is what’s right, and this is what’s wrong. When we get back to those basics, we’re going to see our society turn back to being a better society. You’re going to see a huge turn to what’s going on morally in this country.
Young indicated the passage would likely spur a reaction from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center and that the passage would show those organizations the sincerity of the public’s sentiment on the issue of God in public places.
“We mean it,” Young said. “The people of Alabama mean it when they vote on it November 6. We mean it ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center. We believe in God, and we believe He is the one who tells us what’s right and what’s wrong.”
@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and is the editor of Breitbart TV.
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