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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is surrounded by a crowd of people Saturday night who Rusyy Thomas (the bald man in black shirt) of the radical group Operation Save America had asked to come up and pray for Moore as he began his address to the crowd of about 300.

Chief Justice Roy Moore told an audience of members of a radical anti-abortion and anti-gay rights group Saturday that "America is under attack."



Moore spoke to about 300 people at the Fresh Anointing House of Worship in Montgomery who had come to hear him and take part in the kickoff of a week of activities by the group Operation Save America.



The group is a fundamentalist Christian conservative organization that opposes abortion, same-sex marriage and non-Christian religions. OSA has been listed as a hate group by some organizations.



The group will be in the state's capital this week to protest in various ways abortion and homosexuality.



Moore, who is adamantly opposed to abortion and homosexuality, acknowledged as he started to speak to the group how they are viewed by some.



"You know, some told me 'you know they're a radical group.' I said yeah. They are radical for God," said Moore as the audience cheered and applauded. "We appreciate what you do," Moore added.



Moments before Moore began speaking OSA leader Rusty Lee Thomas called on the audience to come forward and surround Moore and pray for him. As the large crowd surged forward engulfing Moore and putting their hands on him, Thomas led the prayer calling for God's protection for Moore and his work opposing the "murder" of abortion and the decision of the "federal beast" - the U.S. Supreme Court - legalizing same-sex marriage.

As Moore took the stage, a man nearby blew a ram's horn, signaling the beginning of Moore's talk.



For about a half hour Moore railed against what he contends is an historic and dangerous shift away from America's founding as a Christian nation where all law flows from God and where the duty of the government is to promote and protect God's law as revealed by Holy Scripture.



Moore made his case for the sovereignty of a biblically-based nation as he usually does - by quoting verbatim passages from a variety of sources including the Bible, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and the writings of various founding fathers.



Throughout it all Moore hammered home his fear and at times his disgust at what he sees as a country under attack by those who have forgotten how the nation came to be.



"If we don't know God we don't know our country and we don't know our Constitution," More told the crowd. "It's about one nation under God."



Moore quoted from founding father John Adams who Moore said described the nation's founding as a "day of deliverance from almighty God."



Moore said what Adams got right 239 years ago has been forgotten today by too many of the nation's leaders, especially the U.S. Supreme Court.



"We have forgotten what this country is about. Indeed, I think the United States Supreme Court has forgotten what this country is about because if they hadn't they would not be trying to create rights that are not in the Constitution," said Moore in a clear reference to the recent high court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.



Moore said he could criticize the same-sex marriage ruling "all day long" but that he joined the views of the four Supreme Court justices who dissented in the case who Moore said called the ruling lawless and not based on constitutional law, God's law or natural law.



"We're seeing something happen in our country that is changing the course of our country," said Moore of the same-sex marriage ruling.



Moore said he hoped he was wrong, but he feared that the nation was reaching a point where it had forgotten its godly foundations.



"Maybe we have forgotten God," said Moore. "Maybe we're tired of him too; tired of recognizing there is a higher being."



Moore described the founding of America as an act by the founding fathers of "recognizing the sovereignty of God" in a world that at the time was moving away from God.



Moore claimed that the nation's very founding documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - come from "organic law" and that organic law stems from God's law which define the basics in life, basics such as marriage is between one man and one woman.



"What right do we have to go change definitions (of marriage). We don't have a right," said Moore as some in the crowd shouted out "that's right, that's right."



Moore lashed out at what he sees as a move away from Judeo-Christian principles on which the nation was founded.



"I'm sorry but this country was not founded on Muhammad. It was not founded on Buddha. It was not founded on secular humanism. It was founded on God," said Moore as the crowd exploded into applause.



Moore warned the crowd that the recent ruling on same-sex marriage strikes at the very heart of religious freedom.



"In 2015 when they make same-sex marriage a fundamental right they put actions behind it," said Moore. "...They say every probate judge must issue a license; every cake baker must bake a cake; every photographer must take a picture; every decorator must arrange flowers. What I am trying to tell you is this: we just suffered a loss of religious liberty."



While Moore did not call Justice Anthony Kennedy by name - Kennedy authored the majority opinion in the same-sex marriage decision - it was clear he was talking about him as he continued to hammer the decision.



"So we have one person who has entered his judgment that it should be allowed, created a right which didn't exist and is now saying the rest of the country has to recognize it and every individual in this country has to accept it," said Moore as many in the crowd shouted out no, no, no."



Moore heard the shouts.



"Well are you prepared for the consequences? There will be consequences," Moore told those who were shouting no.



Moore said just some of those consequences will be the day when mothers and fathers cannot teach their children in their own homes about God's law and the nation's true law, that it's the Constitution "under God" that is the law of the country, not the "unconstitutional decisions" by one court.



Moore closed with a poem he wrote:



"One Nation under God was their cry and declaration,

Upon the law of Nature's God they built a mighty Nation.

For unlike mankind before them who had walked this earthen sod,

These men would never question the Sovereignty of God.



That all men were "created" was a truth "self-evident,"

To secure the rights God gave us was the role of government.

And if any form of government became destructive of this end,

It was their right, indeed their duty, a new one to begin.



So with a firm reliance on Divine Providence for protection,

They pledged their sacred honor and sought His wise direction.

They lifted up an appeal to God for all the world to see,

And vowed their independence forever to be free.



I'm glad they're not here with us to see the mess we're in,

How we've given up our righteousness for a life of indulgent sin.

For when abortion isn't murder and sodomy is deemed a right,

Then evil is now called good and darkness is now called light.



While truth and law were founded on the God of all creation,

Man now, through law, denies the truth and calls it "separation."

No longer does man see a need for God when he's in full control,

For the only truth self-evident is in the latest poll.



But with man as his own master we fail to count the cost,

Our precious freedoms vanish and our liberty is lost.

Children are told they can't pray in school and they teach them evolution,

When will they see the fear of God is the only true solution?



Our schools have become a battleground while all across the land,

Christians shrug their shoulders afraid to take a stand.

And from the grave their voices cry, the victory has already been won.

Just glorify the Father as did His only Son.



And when your work on earth is done, and you've traveled where we've trod,

You'll leave the land we left to you, One Nation Under God!"







