'Ten Commandments' Judge to Alabama Governor: Ignore Marriage Equality Ruling [View all]
Source: The Advocate
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, famed for his efforts to keep a Ten Commandments monument on public property as well as his staunch opposition to all things gay, is telling the state’s governor to ignore a federal judge’s ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
“I ask you to continue to uphold and support the Alabama Constitution with respect to marriage, both for the welfare of this state and for our posterity,” Moore wrote to Gov. Robert Bentley. “Be advised that I stand with you to stop judicial tyranny and any unlawful opinions issued without constitutional authority.” The three-page letter, delivered to Bentley this morning, was also released to AL.com, a website for several Alabama newspapers.
Moore, an ultraconservative Christian who has said marriage equality will destroy the U.S. Constitution and the nation overall, frequently invoked the Bible in his letter. “The laws of this state have always recognized the Biblical admonition stated by our Lord,” he wrote, then quoted words attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of Mark: “But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this cause a man shall leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.”
Federal courts, he said, are destroying marriage “under specious pretexts based on the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Full Faith and Credit clauses of the U.S. Constitution.” He claimed that federal courts have no constitutional power to regulate marriage. “Our State Constitution and our morality are under attack by a federal court decision that has no basis in the Constitution of the United States,” he wrote. He also quoted an 1825 letter from Thomas Jefferson decrying overreach by the federal government and an 1885 U.S. Supreme Court decision citing the importance of “the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy state of matrimony.”
Read more: http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2015/01/27/ten-commandments-judge-alabama-governor-ignore-marriage-equali
Deja vu anyone?
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