Roy Moore Rides Again
The BBC reports on Crazy Uncle Roy’s latest ‘crusade’:
Judges in Alabama have been ordered not to issue marriage licences to gay couples, on the day a ban on same-sex weddings was due to be lifted.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore sent an order telling judges they were not bound by a federal court ruling that declared Alabama’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional.
His critics have accused him trying to advance his “personal beliefs”.
But at least one county has already begun issuing licences to gay couples.
Ol’ Roy was the Chief Justice of Alabama when he had a stone monument incised with one of the multiple versions of the Ten Commandments, put it in the Alabama Supreme Court building, and defied orders to remove it. This resulted in his impeachment. Well, he ran again and won again as the voters in Alabama enjoy circuses more than the law.
It will end up the same way it did the last time he defied an order from the Federal courts – large legal bills and a special election after he is thrown off the court. He thinks his opinions are the only law in Alabama.
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It’s just five syllables; how hard can it be? Let’s try again, children:
For lessons, one could do worse than retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s recent book, Six Amendments. Some libraries have it. In Texas, I mean… who knows about Alabama.
If you have ever read what Alabama’s two Senators say publicly, you would know that libraries are a waste of money in Alabama. Libraries presume a literate user base which is a ‘fact not in evidence’.
The Alabama constitution may or may not be in the English language … it’s hard to say. [Floridians always ridicule Alabama. It is part of the mutual contempt treaty between the two states. It was written in fingerpaint and is quite cheerful…]
And despite Roy Moore, people are getting married in Alabama. So, how has it affected non-gay people’s lives so far? Well… thus far no plagues of homosexuals falling from the skies to terrorize people by doing homosexual things. Go figure ;).
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Marriage is a partnership agreement. The sole function of religion in marriage is to function as witnesses of the agreement. The religious whackoes who founded the Plymouth/Massachusetts colony didn’t allow the agreements to be to be ‘witnessed’ by pastors or priests for decades, until people finally lobbied for a change in the law. They also outlawed Christmas and hanged people who worked on Sunday, so they were definitely hard core.
First deal with the deviants among the Fundie ministers, and then we can discuss what other people are up to. My view of homosexuals is that they clear the field of potential competitors for those of us who are straight.
My personal view of homosexuals is pretty much the same as my personal view of heterosexuals: that as long as they do whatever they do in private rather than out in the streets where they can scare the horses, it’s none of my business. The late Ann Landers had an acronym she’d trot out whenever someone was nosing into things that were none of their business — “MYOB.” Too bad we don’t have Ann Landers around to apply some of that Jewish grandmotherly common sense to the body public anymore…
It is raw hypocrisy for all of these supposed champions of individual liberty want the government to intrude in the most private of all decisions – marriage and sex. It is none of my business who sleeps with whom as long as they keep it in their bedrooms.
If Moore wants to talk about marriage, maybe he could address the amazing number of divorces among the heterosexual ‘Christian’ population of Alabama. It is hard to take marriage seriously when half of them end in divorce.