First of all, the judges are not dictators - they are simply part of a larger usurpation of power by the fedgov which was, last I checked, still elected, and a judge who oversteps his bounds can still be impeached. Second, lawless is not a focused term here - no matter what you and I might think, what the judge says is the final ruling on law since SCOTUS did not step in, under our federal system. So Pryor was just falling in with that system, and was following the law as he is conditioned to understand it. I would rather he stood up to the court and sparked a confrontation that would have forced SCOTUS into play - but he didn't.
Then let me focus it for you:
Congress is forever banned from making laws in this area. Read the First Amendment with your mind unclouded by modern liberal revisionist thinking. For a federal judge to dictate in such a way based on nonexistent law which in fact cannot exist is tyrannical and 'lawless'.