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Antigay Judge Roy Moore Compares Marriage Equality to Holocaust

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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, a staunch opponent of LGBT rights, is calling the U.S. Supreme Court decision for marriage equality so immoral that it’s comparable to Nazi war crimes.

In an interview with AL.com, a website for several Alabama newspapers, a reporter asked Moore if he would enforce the decision. He replied contentiously that judges do not enforce the law, and brought up Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Jews as an example of people following immoral orders.

“Could I do this if I were in Nuremberg [at the war crimes trials after World War II], say that I was following the orders of the highest authority to kill Jews? ... Could I say I was ordered to do so?"

When an AL.com reporter reminded Alabama's top jurist that the Nuremberg trials were about "killing human beings, not gay marriage," Moore reportedly responded with a question: "Is there a difference?"

Moore said the justices who ruled for marriage equality did not interpret the U.S. Constitution properly, and that he agreed with the dissenters. He also, like many marriage equality opponents, compared the ruling to the 1857 Dred Scott case, in which the nation’s highest court ruled that African-Americans could not be citizens. “That was the interpretation of the majority of the court. Were they right? Of course not,” he told the interviewer. Watch a clip of Moore's comments at the bottom of this page; it does not include the Nuremberg statement, however.

Alabama remains in a state of confusion about marriage equality. As of Monday, at least 22 of Alabama’s 67 counties were not issuing licenses to same-sex couples “or had shut down marriage license operations altogether,” the Associated Press reports.

The confusion is due partly to a Monday statement by Moore. He said that a state Supreme Court order, from which he had recused himself, prevented Alabama probate judges (the officials who issue marriage licenses) from granting marriage licenses to any same-sex couples for 25 days — that being the period in which parties to a U.S. Supreme Court case can ask for a rehearing. Then he backtracked and said probate judges could issue the licenses during that period, but they didn’t have to.

Civil rights organizations were in federal court in Mobile Monday seeking to clear up the situation. They asked U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade to make permanent her temporary order directing all counties in the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The temporary order, issued in May, took effect with the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday, but some counties are still resisting.

“I don’t think anyone suggests there’s any wiggle room in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision,” said Randall Marshall, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, according to AL.com. “There is no doubt the ruling applies to Alabama and there’s no argument to get out from under it.”

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Southern Poverty Law Center are the other civil rights groups involved in the case.

Granade had struck down Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban in February, and marriages took place for a few weeks, but the state Supreme Court issued an order stopping them in early March.

Meanwhile, MoveOn.org has started a petition calling for Moore’s impeachment, citing his “inability to perform his duties with impartiality.” The petition has received more than 17,000 signatures.

Moore was first elected chief justice in 2000, but Alabama’s judicial ethics panel removed him from office in 2003, as he had disobeyed a federal judge’s order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building — a monument that amounted to an unconstitutional establishment of religion by a government body. Voters elected him chief justice again in 2012.

When he was out of office, he was president of the Montgomery-based Foundation for Moral Law. When he returned to the chief justice post, his wife, Kayla Moore, succeeded him as president of the right-wing group, which has called Friday’s decision illegitimate. The foundation has claimed that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan should have recused themselves from the marriage equality case, as both had officiated same-sex marriages before Friday's ruling and therefore could not be impartial. Notably, the foundation did not suggest that any justices who have officiated opposite-sex marriages should similarly recuse themselves from any cases relating to marriage.
 

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Seeing the suffering and exterminations of millions trivialised like this is disgusting.

*hack* *hack* *haaaaack* *spit*
 

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Seeing the suffering and exterminations of millions trivialised like this is disgusting.

*hack* *hack* *haaaaack* *spit*

:agree:

I totally agree. It's vile and it almost make me puke.
 

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How does he stay on the bench?
 

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How does he stay on the bench?

I have a funny feeling Texas may be one of those insane places where Judges are elected.

Nothing like requiring people to win a popular vote to be sure the uphold the rights of minorities .... oh wait .... no ... elected judges utterly undermine the legal system!

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I have a funny feeling Texas may be one of those insane places where Judges are elected.

Nothing like requiring people to win a popular vote to be sure the uphold the rights of minorities .... oh wait .... no ... elected judges utterly undermine the legal system!

B.

Judge Roy 'Bat-shit Crazy' Moore hails from that bastion of liberty and justice... Alabama! Not from the Seventh Circle of Hell state of Texas.

But it's understandably easy to confuse the two...

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Alabama Supreme Court dismisses petitions opposing same-sex marriage

Alabama Supreme Court dismisses petitions opposing same-sex marriage
The Washington Post | By Sandhya Somashekhar | March 4 at 5:18 PM

The Alabama Supreme Court, which has been a high-profile holdout opposing same-sex marriage since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay unions nationally last year, on Friday dismissed a set of petitions filed by conservatives who want the state’s ban on gay unions enforced.

The order dismisses all pending motions and petitions, in effect ending those groups’ legal avenue to pursue their claims against same-sex marriage. However, in his 94-page concurring opinion, Alabama’s firebrand chief justice, Roy Moore, said that previous state orders barring gay marriage remain and are valid under the federal constitution.

Groups differed about what the ruling truly meant, as well as what might be its practical effect in the Deep South state. Most of Alabama’s 67 counties have already been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of Moore, who earlier this year had reiterated his view that same-sex marriage was not legal in Alabama.

One thing is certain: The ruling gave Moore, an outspoken opponent of homosexuality and gay unions, another opportunity to lay out his positions on those matters in colorful detail.

Quoting the 1974 song “Feelings” by Albert Morris, and comparing the arguments in favor of same-sex marriage to a Greek tragedy, Moore accused the high court of relying too heavily on emotional arguments in ruling last year that gay couples have a constitutional right to marry.

“Based upon arguments of ‘love,’ ‘commitment’ and ‘equal dignity’ for same-sex couples, five lawyers … have declared a new social policy for the entire country,” Moore wrote, referring to the 5-4 split. He called the decision “lawless” and condemned gay relationships as “unnatural.”

Groups opposed to same-sex marriage greeted Friday’s ruling as a victory. Mat Staver, chairman of the Liberty Counsel, which provided legal representation to some of those challenging legal same-sex marriage, said it was significant that the court left untouched a March 2015 order that county officials are prohibited from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

“We’re viewing it as a victory,” Staver said, calling the ruling a “stamp of approval” on that March order.

But Susan Watson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, said it appeared that in dismissing the petitions the justices were finally giving in to the reality that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay unions applied in Alabama as well.

“In the end, they realize, whether they like it or not, the national U.S. Supreme Court decision holds and that’s the law of the land,” she said.

It's called 'Eating Crow' Roy ;)
 

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Reading the story, he didn't actually eat cow though - he says the existing bans still stand. He used the rulling to continue spreading his hate. So sign of humility or contrition here :(

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So he tried to save face a little. The order still stands as recognition of the SCOTUS ruling and it validates all of the Marriage licenses issued to Gay couples by clerks around the state of Alabama.
 

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So he tried to save face a little. The order still stands as recognition of the SCOTUS ruling and it validates all of the Marriage licenses issued to Gay couples by clerks around the state of Alabama.

That is indeed the most important thing.
 

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Update

Sometimes the wheels of justice are slow, but they do turn eventually.

From NBC News:

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Faces Ouster After Gay Marriage Fight


Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore — ousted from office more than a decade ago over a Ten Commandments display — now faces possible removal from the bench over his effort to block gay marriage from coming to that state after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission on Friday filed ethics charges against Moore, saying that the state chief justice abused the power of his office and displayed disrespect for the judiciary. Moore, 69, has been automatically suspended from the bench until there is a resolution.

The charges stem from a Jan. 6 administrative order Moore sent to probate judges telling them an Alabama court order and law banning same-sex marriages remained in full force and effect even though the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges effectively legalized gay marriage six months prior.

"By issuing his unilateral order of January 6, 2016, Chief Justice Moore flagrantly disregarded a fundamental constitutional right guaranteed in all states as declared by the United States Court in Obergefell," the Judicial Inquiry Commission wrote in the charges.

The chief justice's order to probate judges also came even though a federal judge had enjoined probate judges from enforcing Alabama's same-sex marriage ban, the commission wrote.

The Court of the Judiciary will decide whether Moore is guilty of violating judicial ethics. If found guilty, he could face removal from office...
 
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