Chief Justice Roy Moore Fighting Gay Marriage Ruling
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What’s next for Chief Justice Roy Moore? Alabama’s top judge now has ethics complaints filed against him for his opposition to same-sex marriage, so will that lead to his firing once again?
Monday was the first day same-sex couples were able to get married in Alabama. There were mostly supporters at the Montgomery County Courthouse, where gay couples lined up to trade I- dos.
But not everyone is backing same-sex marriage, including Chief Justice Roy Moore. Political Analyst Steve Flowers says he believes Moore’s antics may not get him removed from the bench.
“That’s a stretch to say he’s breaking the ethics law,” Flowers says. “He’s just demagoguing is all he’s doing, which is good politics like I said. But I don’t think he loses his job over this.”
Moore made a last ditch effort to stop gay marriages from happening, when he issued an order to all Alabama probate judges Sunday night telling them not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. He says the federal judge’s ruling, which said that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, isn’t law.
“My order to the probate judges of this state is don’t issue same-sex marriage licenses because you’re not bound by their rulings,” Moore says. “And I’ve got case law that shows that.”
“It’s an open secret in the republican party that Roy wants to run for governor,” says Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen.
Cohen says he believes Moore wants to run for higher office and should no longer be a judge.
“He hasn’t learned his lesson,” he says. “The state of Alabama had to throw him out of office in 2003 for defying a federal court order and now he seems determined to thumb his nose at them again.”
But Moore argues that “The federal courts do not have the authority to redefine marriage.”
