The ignorant, bigoted, anti-LGBT Alabama Chief Supreme Court Justice, Roy Moore, has finally been suspended. It should’ve happened a long time ago.
Moore has been suspended without pay, and he owes court costs. He faced judicial ethics charges after his ridiculous stunt when the same-sex marriage ruling came down. He sent out letters to all of the counties telling clerks not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
This went against the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in which the justices concluded that bans on same sex marriages are unconstitutional, and effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The anti-LGBT Justice Moore was found guilty of all of the ethics charges against him. This knocks him off the bench permanently. His six-year term lasts until 2019, and he will be too old to run again by then.
NPR’s Debbie Elliott had this to say about the case:
“Moore forced the debate last year when he issued orders in conflict with a Mobile, Ala., federal judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Here’s what he told NPR at the time:”
“‘If we sit back and let the federal courts intrude their powers into state sovereignty, then we’re neglecting everything about which the Constitution stands,’ Moore said.”
“The result was confusion in marriage license offices throughout Alabama. Some closed down altogether. Even after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed marriage equality, Moore told local judges that they had a ‘ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to’ state laws forbidding same-sex marriage.”
This is the same man who once said:
“Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.”
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When the ruling came down, he told people at a Montgomery church that the ruling was Satan’s fault. He said that the decision is “blind” to what America stands for. He said that it was founded on God.
Wrong. The Founding Fathers were not Christians, and we are not a Christian nation.
Moore also said that Satan made the Supreme Court “destroy the institution of marriage.”
He spat out this bit of verbal diarrhea:
‘”When you start teaching kids that they have the right to choose whether they are male or female. When you talk about three or four years old, you know what they think. They don’t know much. They may learn fast. And when they get in their mind they can be a man if they’re a girl or a woman if they are a boy, I don’t know what the end is going to be. Except it will come down to things like when you take your little girl to the girl’s bathroom and you wait outside and you see some guy with hairy legs going into that bathroom, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Are you going to stand back and let that guy go in the bathroom with your little girl?”
This disgusting anti-LGBT bigot should never have been elected to public office.
Here is a news clip about the issue:
https://youtu.be/tENeaMO-J70
Featured image via Twitter.
