On November 13, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary ordered the removal of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore from his post. The decision resulted from Moore’s refusal to obey what he considered a tyrannical order from a federal judge commanding him to remove a stone monument of the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama supreme court building (and earned him the title "Human Events' Man of the Year.") As a follow-up to her first project on religious images in Washington, D.C., public buildings (see "God in the Temples of Government"), HE intern and photojournalist Carrie Devorah took more pictures of religious images and also gathered three U.S. stamps with religious themes. Will the courts eventually outlaw these images, as they have other religious symbols such as former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument? If not, why not?
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All photos by Carrie Devorah, 2003.
Inscription inside the Washington Monument
Jesuit Father James Marquette in the U.S. Capitol
Sculpture in front of the U.S. district court building
Image called "Religion" in the U.S. Capitol
Carving of Ten Commandments on doors of the U.S. Supreme Court
Charlemagne inside U.S. Supreme Court
Muhammad inside U.S. Supreme Court
Painting in U.S. Capitol of Pocahontas' baptism
Three U.S. stamps commemorating holidays
Discovery of the Mississippi River by Hernando De Soto in the U.S. Capitol
Detail of one of the ornaments on the Christmas tree in the Library of Congress.
Ms. Devorah is a credentialed investigative photojournalist, who covered international horseracing and local London and Irish news and is a frequent contributor to HUMAN EVENTS. A native Canadian, she is also an illustrator specializing in the British watercolor technique and is author of a book on the scribal arts.
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