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Alabama Justice To Defy Federal Courts On Gay Marriage

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Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore Threatens To Defy 'Tyranny' Of Federal Courts On Gay Marriage
HuffPost | By Ryan J. Reilly | Posted: 01/27/2015 5:29 pm EST

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Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, does not believe federal courts have the authority to strike down a state's ban on same-sex marriage. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images) | Matthew Cavanaugh via Getty Images

WASHINGTON -- Roy Moore, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, called Tuesday for his state's governor to oppose the "tyranny" of federal courts that have repeatedly ruled in recent years that state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.

Moore's letter to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) came a few days after a federal judge in the state ruled that Alabama's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay citizens. The ruling in Alabama is currently stayed for two weeks to allow the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to decide whether the marriages should continue to be delayed until the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on the constitutionality of state same-sex marriage bans later this year.

Moore, a Republican politician, was removed from the state supreme court in 2003 after he had a monument of the Ten Commandments installed in the state judicial building and then disobeyed a federal judge's order to remove it. Alabama voters elected him as chief justice again in 2012.

While he didn't spell out exactly how he planned to defy the ruling of a federal court, Moore said he would "continue to recognize the Alabama Constitution," which has an amendment that bans same-sex marriage. Moore also pointed out rulings from the Supreme Court of Alabama -- from 1870 and 1904 -- that called marriage a "divine institution" and a "sacred relation."

Moore even quoted a U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 1885 (which was later quoted in a 1908 Supreme Court case) that he said indicated the court recognized the importance of marriage and family. He said the "destruction of that institution is upon us by federal courts using specious pretexts based on the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Full Faith and Credit Clauses" of the Constitution. He said that 44 federal courts have "imposed by judicial fiat same-sex marriages in 21 states of the union."

The chief justice said Alabama's state constitution and morality "are under attack by a federal court decision that has no basis in the Constitution of the United States." He said any Alabama judges who obey the federal court order and allow licenses to be issued would be in "defiance of the laws and Constitution of Alabama."

"Be advised that I stand with you to stop judicial tyranny and any unlawful opinions issued without constitutional authority," Moore wrote.

Ashley Jackson, Alabama director of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement that it is "deeply ironic" that Moore was complaining about "judicial activism" while pushing to ignore a federal judge's ruling.

"The U.S. constitution guarantees the equal protection of the law for all Americans, and, sooner rather than later, that equality must come to Alabama’s families, too," Jackson said.

This guy should find a place more to his liking to live... maybe a country that practices legal discrimination and imprisonment or execution of Gays. There seems to be plenty of choices for his re-location.

Can you imagine being Gay, growing up Gay in a state where the highest court in the state is led by someone who feels free to publicly state such contempt for Gay citizens? Don't you know they feel persecuted enough already?

I hope he is impeached and barred from practicing law anywhere in the USA.

 

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So when will Obama send the National Guard to Alabama? The so-called United States doesn't seem particularly "United" today...
 

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The homophobia is bad enough, but he is basically arguing for secession, and it's not like that idea ever ended badly :/
 

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Alabama judge faces ethics complaint for gay marriage letter

A civil rights group on Wednesday filed a judicial ethics complaint against Alabama’s controversial Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, saying his comments urging judges to disregard a recent ruling striking down the state’s gay marriage ban were “encouraging lawlessness.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center said it had lodged the complaint with the state’s Judicial Inquiry Commission, which could recommend that Moore face ethics charges in the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.

Moore’s remarks, which included “we must act to oppose such tyranny” being imposed by “judicial fiat,” were made in a letter to Gov. Roy Bentley dated Tuesday and on state Supreme Court letterhead.

“Moore is once again wrapping himself in the Bible and thumbing his nose at the federal courts and federal law,” the center’s president, Richard Cohen, said in a statement. “As a private citizen, Moore is entitled to his views. But as the chief justice of Alabama, he has a responsibility to recognize the supremacy of federal law and to conform his conduct to the canons of judicial ethics.”

Moore’s letter was in response to the decision on Friday by U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade to throw out Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban. She ordered a 14-day stay on her ruling on Sunday to allow the attorney general time to appeal, though she said the state wasn’t likely to succeed.

“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,” he said in the letter. “Be advised that I stand with you to stop judicial tyranny and any unlawful opinions issued without constitutional authority.”

The SPLC alleged that Moore had committed numerous ethics violations with the letter, including publicly commenting on a pending federal case. In the statement, the center said he was “encouraging lawlessness by attempting to assemble a virtual army of state officials and judges to oppose the federal judiciary and its ‘tyranny’ - the opposite of what is expected from the state’s chief judge.”
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Thank goodness for groups like the SPLC - they continue to do great work.
 

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Alabama Chief Justice Orders State Judges To Defy Federal Order, Block

Alabama Chief Justice Orders State Judges To Defy Federal Order, Block Same-Sex Marriages
ThinkProgress | By JUDD LEGUM | February 8, 2015 AT 11:11 PM

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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore has directed state judges to ignore an explicit order of a federal court. A ruling by federal judge Ginny Granade required Alabama probate judges to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses on Monday. In an extraordinary show of defiance, Moore issued his own order telling the state probate judges to ignore the federal courts:

Moore’s move appears to be a flagrant violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. Granade ruled that “the state’s 1998 law and 2006 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage” were unconstitutional. In conflicts between state and federal law, federal law is controlling.

It’s unclear how the 68 Alabama probate judges will respond.
Moore previously was removed as Chief Justice by a state ethics panel for “defying a federal judge’s order to move a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building.” He was reelected to the position in 2011.

You can read Moore’s full order, issued late Sunday, here:

STATE OF ALABAMA -- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER OF THE
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT

WHEREAS, pursuant to Article VI, Section 149, of the
Constitution of Alabama, the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Alabama is the administrative head of the
judicial system;

and

WHEREAS, pursuant to § 12-2-30(b)(7), Ala. Code
1975, the Chief Justice is authorized and empowered to
"take affirmative and appropriate action to correct or
alleviate any condition or situation adversely affecting
the administration of justice within the state";

and

WHEREAS, pursuant to § 12-2-30(b)(8), Ala. Code
1975, the Chief Justice is authorized and empowered to
"take any such other, further or additional action as may
be necessary for the orderly administration of justice
within the state, whether or not enumerated in this
section or elsewhere";

and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Article VI, Section 139(a), of
the Constitution of Alabama, the Probate Judges of
Alabama are part of Alabama's Unified Judicial System;

and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Article XVI, Section 279, of
the Constitution of Alabama, the Probate Judges of
Alabama are bound by oath to "support the Constitution of
the United States, and the Constitution of the State of
Alabama";

and

WHEREAS, as explained in my Letter and Memorandum to
the Alabama Probate Judges, dated February 3, 2015, and
incorporated fully herein by reference, the Probate
Judges of Alabama are not bound by the orders of January
23, 2015 and January 28, 2015 in the case of Searcy v.
Strange (No. 1:14-208-CG-N) (S.D. Ala.) or by the order
of January 26, 2015 in Strawser v. Strange (No. 1:14-CV-
424-CG-C) (S.D. Ala.);

and

WHEREAS Article I, Section 36.03, of the
Constitution of Alabama, entitled "Sanctity of marriage,"
states:

(a) This amendment shall be known and may be
cited as the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment.

(b) Marriage is inherently a unique
relationship between a man and a woman. As a
matter of public policy, this state has a
special interest in encouraging, supporting,
and protecting this unique relationship in
order to promote, among other goals, the
stability and welfare of society and its
children. A marriage contracted between
individuals of the same sex is invalid in this
state.

(c) Marriage is a sacred covenant, solemnized
between a man and a woman, which, when the
legal capacity and consent of both parties is
present, establishes their relationship as
husband and wife, and which is recognized by
the state as a civil contract.

(d) No marriage license shall be issued in the
State of Alabama to parties of the same sex.

(e) The State of Alabama shall not recognize as
valid any marriage of parties of the same sex
that occurred or was alleged to have occurred
as a result of the law of any jurisdiction
regardless of whether a marriage license was
issued.

(f) The State of Alabama shall not recognize as
valid any common law marriage of parties of the
same sex.

(g) A union replicating marriage of or between
persons of the same sex in the State of Alabama
or in any other jurisdiction shall be
considered and treated in all respects as
having no legal force or effect in this state
and shall not be recognized by this state as a
marriage or other union replicating marriage.

and

WHEREAS § 30-1-9, Ala. Code 1975, entitled
"Marriage, recognition thereof, between persons of the
same sex prohibited," states:

(a) This section shall be known and may be
cited as the “Alabama Marriage Protection Act.”

(b) Marriage is inherently a unique
relationship between a man and a woman. As a
matter of public policy, this state has a
special interest in encouraging, supporting,
and protecting the unique relationship in order
to promote, among other goals, the stability
and welfare of society and its children. A
marriage contracted between individuals of the
same sex is invalid in this state.

(c) Marriage is a sacred covenant, solemnized
between a man and a woman, which, when the
legal capacity and consent of both parties is
present, establishes their relationship as
husband and wife, and which is recognized by
the state as a civil contract.

(d) No marriage license shall be issued in the
State of Alabama to parties of the same sex.

(e) The State of Alabama shall not recognize as
valid any marriage of parties of the same sex
that occurred or was alleged to have occurred
as a result of the law of any jurisdiction
regardless of whether a marriage license was
issued.

and

WHEREAS, neither the Supreme Court of the United
States nor the Supreme Court of Alabama has ruled on the
constitutionality of either the Sanctity of Marriage
Amendment or the Marriage Protection Act:

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED AND DIRECTED THAT:
To ensure the orderly administration of justice
within the State of Alabama, to alleviate a situation
adversely affecting the administration of justice within
the State, and to harmonize the administration of justice
between the Alabama judicial branch and the federal
courts in Alabama:

Effective immediately, no Probate Judge of the State
of Alabama nor any agent or employee of any Alabama
Probate Judge shall issue or recognize a marriage license
that is inconsistent with Article 1, Section 36.03, of
the Alabama Constitution or § 30-1-19, Ala. Code 1975.
Should any Probate Judge of this state fail to
follow the Constitution and statutes of Alabama as
stated, it would be the responsibility of the Chief
Executive Officer of the State of Alabama, Governor
Robert Bentley, in whom the Constitution vests "the
supreme executive power of this state," Art. V, § 113,
Ala. Const. 1901, to ensure the execution of the law.
"The Governor shall take care that the laws be faithfully
executed." Art. V, § 120, Ala. Const. 1901. "'If the
governor's "supreme executive power" means anything, it
means that when the governor makes a determination that
the laws are not being faithfully executed, he can act
using the legal means that are at his disposal.'" Tyson
v. Jones, 60 So. 3d 831, 850 (Ala. 2010) (quoting Riley
v. Cornerstone, 57 So. 3d 704, 733 (Ala. 2010)).
DONE on this 8th day of February, 2015.
________________________
Roy S. Moore
Chief Justice

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This guy is nuts.

This little power play gauntlet he's thrown down won't end well for him. He may live to regret challenging the SCOTUS.

We'll have to wait and see how this drama plays out.
 
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Bat-shit crazy!

This man should be permanently disqualified from all judicial appointments on the grounds of rank incompetence and/or contempt of the US constitution.

B.
 

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Confusion in Alabama After Judge Defies Gay Marriage Ruling

Confusion in Alabama After Judge Defies Gay Marriage Ruling
NewsWeek | By Taylor Wofford | 2/9/15 AT 1:21 PM

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Greg and Roger, right, got hitched Monday morning. Other gay couples in Alabama haven’t been given the chance, owing to statewide confusion over whether same-sex marriage is legal there

Following a January ruling in a federal district court that found Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriages unconstitutional, some—but not all—of the state’s judges have begun to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a last-minute order by Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore not to do so.

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange had requested the U.S. Supreme Court stay the federal ruling until the top court resolves the issue of same-sex marriage. Its decision is expected in June. But the Supreme Court denied the stay, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia dissenting. The federal ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Callie Granade, was set to take effect Monday morning.

Moore complicated matters by issuing a memo to Alabama probate judges late Sunday night arguing that “state courts are not bound by the judicial opinions of federal district or appeals courts on questions of federal constitutional law.” Only the U.S. Supreme Court can resolve disputes between state and federal courts, Moore wrote.

Legal scholars are somewhat divided about whether Moore’s interpretation of the law is correct.

In Bloomberg View, Noah Feldman, a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard, wrote that Moore’s interpretation is “dangerously wrong.” Feldman argues that when Alabama probate judges issue marriage licenses, they are executors, not arbiters, of the Constitution. “They aren’t parallel interpreters of the document: There’s no case or controversy before them,” he writes. “Refusal to comply with the federal court judgment would be illegitimate resistance.”

Florida State College of Law professor Wayne Logan, meanwhile, told The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog that Moore’s interpretation could hold water. “[A]s a formal matter a state court need not defer to the federal constitutional holding of a federal lower court,” he wrote.

Alabama’s probate judges are seemingly confused about whether they should issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. According to AL.com:

In Coffee County, Jefferson County, Chilton County and Madison County, probate judges said they will issue marriage licenses to all couples, gay and straight, on Monday morning.

Probate judges in other counties chose to follow the order issued late Sunday by Chief Justice Moore. Probate judges in Bibb County, Covington County, Cleburne County and Washington County decided not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Monday, but will still issue licenses to opposite-sex couples.

Moore is a controversial figure. A state panel removed him from his post in 2003 after he refused to comply with an order to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state court building. He twice ran for governor, both times unsuccessfully, before winning reelection as chief justice in 2012.

He is also outspoken on homosexuality. “Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one’s ability to describe it,” he wrote in 2002.
 

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Justice Thomas objects to court's signal on gay marriage

Justice Thomas objects to court's signal on gay marriage
Associated Press | By MARK SHERMAN | 3:45pm EST February 9 2015

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is inappropriately signaling it intends to clear the way for gay marriage across the nation, Justice Clarence Thomas complained Monday in a stinging dissent to the court's refusal to block the start of same-sex marriages in Alabama.

Bitterly objecting to Monday's action, Thomas provided a rare insider's perspective on the widely held view that the court's embrace of gay marriage is a done deal.

Thomas filed a dissenting opinion after his colleagues rejected Alabama's plea to put a hold on same-sex marriages in the state until the Supreme Court resolves the issue nationwide in a few months.

He criticized his fellow justices for looking "the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws," rather than following the customary course of leaving those laws in place until the court answers an important constitutional question.

"This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court's intended resolution of that question," Thomas wrote in an opinion that was joined by Justice Antonin Scalia. "This is not the proper way" for the court to carry out its role under the Constitution, he wrote, "and, it is indecorous for this court to pretend that it is."

The opinion was remarkable less for the legal result it suggested than for its open criticism of fellow justices.

After all, many legal commentators have predicted not only the case's outcome this spring (in favor of same-sex marriage), but the vote (5-4) and the author of the majority opinion (Justice Anthony Kennedy).

The number of states in which gay and lesbian couples can marry has nearly doubled since October, from 19 to 37, largely as a result of terse Supreme Court orders that allowed lower court rulings to become final and rejected state efforts to keep marriage bans in place pending appeals.

"If you read the tea leaves the Supreme Court is leaving, the bans on same-sex marriage can't be permitted. They're unconstitutional," said University of California-Berkeley law professor Jesse Choper.

Alabama became the 37th state in which same-sex couples can marry, following U.S. District Judge Callie Granade's ruling in January that struck down as unconstitutional the state's statutory and constitutional bans.

Granade had put her order on hold until Monday to let the state prepare for the change, and State Attorney General Luther Strange had asked for the delay to be extended for at least a few months.

Monday morning, probate judges in Alabama began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, some of whom had been lined up for hours.

"It's about time," said Shante Wolfe, 21, as she left the courthouse in Montgomery with wife Tori Sisson. They had camped out in a blue and white tent to be the first in the county given a license.

The Supreme Court often freezes lawsuits in place when they raise the same issue the court already has agreed to decide. And when federal courts declare state laws unconstitutional, "our ordinary practice," Thomas wrote, is to prevent those rulings from taking effect while they are being appealed.

But since October, the justices have repeatedly turned away state requests to keep same-sex marriages from taking place until appeals are resolved.

Alabama's plea was the first since the court stepped into the issue last month to take up a decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold laws in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee that define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The court has been silent about the reasons for its actions in the gay marriage cases. It similarly offered no explanation for orders in a series of challenges to state voter ID and registration laws in the fall, or for a decision to allow an execution in Oklahoma to proceed eight days before deciding to hear a challenge to the controversial sedative the state uses in lethal injection executions.

"Part of what gives us all a sense of finality and a sense of acceptance about decisions is knowing that the court has thought about it," said University of Chicago law professor Will Baude, a former law clerk to Chief Justice John Roberts. Baude uses the term "shadow docket" to refer to unexplained orders. "For the public at large, that can over time harm the court's legitimacy."

Thomas has previously made known his support for keeping the same-sex marriage prohibitions in place until the court issues its decision. Although he did not note it in October, he later said he had voted at that time to take up gay marriage when the court rejected appeals from five states seeking to preserve same-sex marriage bans.

Thomas and Scalia also have been in dissent from the three major pro-gay rights decisions at the Supreme Court since 1996, all written by Kennedy. When the court struck down part of the anti-gay marriage federal Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito also dissented.

Michael Dorf, a former Kennedy law clerk who teaches at Cornell University, said the absence of Roberts and Alito from Thomas' dissent Monday suggests those justices could be part of a broader majority in favor of same-sex marriage this year, with Roberts the more likely candidate.

Other than that, Dorf said, the justices' order allowing same-sex marriage to begin in Alabama, "is further evidence that the court intends to reverse the 6th circuit and find a constitutional right to same-sex marriage."

What a fucking hypocrite. He's a black man sitting on the SCOTUS. He is against Gay Marriage and he's lashing out at the other Justice's for NOT perpetuating legal discrimination against a minority by delaying the striking down of a discriminatory law.

What if the discrimination was against allowing blacks to marry? Would he want to help a state continue to discriminate against blacks? Or against inter-racial marriage?

What a fucking ignorant, bigoted hypocrite.

I'm just sayin'
 
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I have a question, can Roy Moore be disbarred because of his current actions against marriage equality and his past record as a Christian loony bin?
 

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What if the discrimination was against allowing blacks to marry? Would he want to help a state continue to discriminate against blacks? Or against inter-racial marriage?

I wouldn't put anything past him. He's ruled plenty of times against the interests of black people.
 

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Let Me Answer Your Questions, Justice Roy Moore

Let Me Answer Your Questions, Justice Roy Moore
HuffPost | By Domenick Scudera | 02/24/2015 9:41 am EST

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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is at it again. In an AP interview this week he continued his stance against same-sex marriage. To explain his views, he added this:

You're taking any definition of a family away. When two bisexuals or two transgendered marry, how large is that family? Can they marry two persons, one of the same sex and one of the opposite sex? Then, you've got a family of four or how many?

Let me answer those questions for you, Mr. Moore.

"When two bisexuals or two transgendered marry, how large is that family?"

When two people marry, there are two of them. Two. One plus one equals two.

"Can they marry two persons, one of the same sex and one of the opposite sex?"

No, they cannot.

"Then, you've got a family of four or how many?"

No, you have got two. Two. Two people getting married equals two people. One person marrying another person creates a family of two people. Two.

Maybe this will help: Do you remember Noah and the Ark? (I am trying to speak your language now.) Remember how they all entered the ark two by two? It is like that. Two.

Still do not understand? You know the Ten Commandments? Of course, you do. You were removed from the bench once because you would not remove a monument of them from the Alabama Supreme Court building. So take the Ten Commandments and divide by five. The answer is two. Got it?

How about this? You are familiar with the shortest verse in the Bible, "Jesus wept," right? Count the words in that sentence. "Jesus": word one. "Wept": word two. Two.

Roy Moore is filled with questions. In a Good Morning America interview he asked:

Do they stop with one man and one man or one woman and one woman? Or do they go to multiple marriages? Or do they go to marriages between men and their daughters or women and their sons?

OK, let us try this again.

"Do they stop with one man and one man or one woman and one woman?"

Yes, they do.

"[D]o they go to multiple marriages?"

No, they do not.

"[D]o they go to marriages between men and their daughters or women and their sons?"

No. That is incest.

Maybe it is futile to try to explain this to Justice Moore. Would he ever be able to understand that someone who is bisexual is capable of monogamy? Or that gender identity is not linked to sexual orientation? Or that incest is not the same thing as homosexuality? Trying to explain these concepts to Roy Moore is like explaining string theory to a clam.

The group Sanctity of Marriage Alabama led a rally recently where Republican State Rep. Will Ainsworth furthered Moore's slippery-slope argument, saying, "Allowing the whims of our pop culture to redefine marriage is a slippery slope that could lead to polygamy. Where does the definition stop? Think about that."

I am thinking, and here is my answer: The definition stops at two people. One person marrying one other person. Not multiple people.

This slippery-slope argument has been around for some time now in conservative circles. The Family Research Council, for instance, has a glossy pamphlet titled "The Slippery Slope of Same-Sex Marriage," which begins with a story of a man who wants to marry his horse, ultimately asking, "What is marriage -- and where do we draw the limits on who can marry?"

Let us try one more time.

"What is marriage...?"

It is a legally recognized union between two people. Two. People.

"[W]here do we draw the limits on who can marry?"

We draw the limits at two people. Two. Human beings. Not horses. Humans.

Any more questions?

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"Trying to explain these concepts to Roy Moore is like explaining string theory to a clam."

I think the author's integrity has to be called into question here; where did he get such a negative attitude toward clams?
 

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"Trying to explain these concepts to Roy Moore is like explaining string theory to a clam."

I think the author's integrity has to be called into question here; where did he get such a negative attitude toward clams?

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Son of Alabama chief justice charged with drug possession

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's son arrested, charged with drug possession in Troy
AL dot com | By Kelsey Stein | March 16, 2015 at 2:08 PM

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Caleb Moore, the 24-year-old son of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, was arrested for drug possession in Troy on Sunday, March 15, 2015

The son of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was arrested Sunday for drug possession near the scene of an attempted break-in, court records show.

Caleb Moore, 24, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.

According to court documents, officers responded to the 1200 block of Allen Street in Troy to a report of an attempted home break-in. They found five men, including Moore, outside near a pickup truck that smelled strongly of marijuana.

After the men said there were no drugs in the vehicle, officers searched the truck and found a bag of marijuana in the glove compartment, along with Moore's passport. Several Xanax pills also were found in the bag.

Moore was arrested and taken to the city jail. He was released on bond totaling $8,500.

Moore addressed the charges in a Facebook post on Monday afternoon:

"This is nothing more than a prime example of how media and crooked police officers and critics of my dad try to not only destroy his career for what he stands for but will go as far as trying to destroy his family," he wrote. "I am not a drug user as the drug test taken today will show. As for the malicious possession charges, justice will be served."

His first court appearance is set for April 7 before Pike County District Judge William Hightower.

Roy Moore confirmed his son's arrest but declined further comment, describing it as a personal matter.

In January, Caleb Moore told AL.com that he has done things he isn't proud of and acted "young and immature," but "that's why God gives us salvation."

"I've done nothing more than any other college kids," he told AL.com "Because of who I am, it gets blown out of proportion. Since then I've got in a closer walk with the Lord. Whatever anyone says about me, it doesn't bother me. The people who know me and know what's true can really see what's going on here and see through critics of my dad."

Court records show that, in 2013, Moore pleaded guilty to drug-related charges in St. Clair County and was sentenced to probation. In 2011, he was arrested and charged with drug possession and driving under the influence in Crenshaw County. He applied to be treated as a youthful offender.

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Booking Photo (mug shot)
Arrest Record: Caleb Elisha Moore
Booked By
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office
Booked Date
2014-04-01
Charges
• POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA--DRUG PARAPHERNALIA-1ST OFFENSE


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History of drug charges: Caleb Moore, pictured drinking with friends, was arrested when he was 20 on charges of driving under the influence and drug possession

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Like other kids: Caleb Moore says his behavior is just like any other college kid but says because his dad is a politician his behavior gets 'blown out of proportion'

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I thought this story was worthy of sharing for a number of reasons.

  • Justice Roy Moore has been in the spotlight for his antics on the bench
  • His son, Caleb, is as insolent and arrogant as he is
  • Caleb is a hot twink (IMHO) and I'd do him in a heartbeat
  • If Caleb goes to prison (highly doubtful he will since his father is Chief Justice and obviously has powerful friends and a lot of influence) he might prove that other nutjob, Ben Carson, was right - the one who says prison turns str8 guys Gay
  • Caleb has a 'purdy mouth'

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