Faith Group Kicks Off Campaign To Support Roy Moore
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A group of local and national pastors are starting a resistance movement against the federal court system in the wake of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s decision against issuing same-sex marriage.
Earlier this month, a federal judge declared the state’s ban unconstitutional. Judge Moore responded by telling Alabama probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. that started a war of words between activists not only here in Alabama, but across the country.
“Are we willing to say that a federal court will decide what our faith looks like, what our families look like what marriage looks like?”
That’s the message Reverend Patrick Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition in Washington DC, sent out to ralliers on the steps of the Alabama Judicial System’s building. Faith leaders who attended say they want to show their support for Chief Justice Roy Moore’s decision to stand his ground against the federal court system.
“The last group of people that we would want deciding what our public institution should look like would be federal courts!” Said Mahoney.
He says the case of Judge Moore and the federal court system is just one of many in the nation that he believes has over-reached its boundaries.
It’s why he and other local and national faith leaders have kicked off a national campaign to resist judicial activism.
“We’re going to launch this movement to connect people, these loose situations that erupt around the country, we want to put a legal team together, we want to get strategy with media and all these things so we can network. And when they happen, resist these and move forward,” Said Mahoney.
The networking has already started.
Reverend Mike Weldon with Claud Methodist Church in Elmore County says he’ll be joining the group to spread their national message over the next six months.
“If it’s all right for same sex to marry what is next? We already see people are applying to marry their pets,” Said Weldon.
So what about the separation of church and state? Mahoney says he believes people should live in an open society where they can practice their faith values without fear of government intimidation.
This is the same group who led the 10 commandments rally back in 2003 when Judge Moore refused to remove the 10 commandments monument from the state supreme court building.
