Judge Moore elected chief justice in Ala.
___MONTGOMERY, Ala. (RNS)--Judge Roy Moore, the Alabama judge who gained prominence with his crusade to keep the Ten Commandments posted in his courtroom, was elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Nov. 7.
___Moore, a Republican, defeated Sharon Yates, a Democrat, to rise to the post of the state's highest-ranking judge.
___He had pledged to take his handmade plaque of the Ten Commandments with him to the Supreme Court building in Montgomery if he was elected.
___"I believe God is looking down on these efforts of those people who wish to acknowledge his sovereignty over the affairs of men," Moore told his supporters. "I think it's time in this state and nation that we did just that."
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