RE: Your recent action that tosses Judge Moore 'under the bus.'
Governor:
Have you never heard of, or even considered the term 'nullify?'
Marriage is not something that our central socialist government should ever be involved with. It is an institution that is holy and should be inviolate. States have the right to nullify actions by an out of control central government.
What will you do when ordered by the feds to grant licenses so fathers can marry daughters? Or, what to do when your state is ordered to grant licenses when a deranged farmer wants to marry his cow?
Again, the religious argument, in the United States, is dead, dead, dead.
The Constitutional argument is barely breathing itself, but at least it is coherent and remains presumptively valid.
Federal courts enforce Federal laws MADE IN PURSUANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION. They don't write and proclaim Federal laws by themselves.
THERE IS NO FEDERAL LAW MANDATING, OR EVEN ALLOWING, two men or two women to contract a relationship which under the existing and perfectly valid laws of Alabama could be construed as a "marriage". Period, end of story.