Posted on 02/12/2015 11:24:02 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Washington (CNN)The chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court insisted Thursday he will continue to resist efforts to implement same-sex marriage in his state, even if the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage later this year.
Chief Justice Roy Moore likened an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage to the Dred Scott ruling and Plessy v. Ferguson, two 19th century Supreme Court rulings that upheld slavery and segregation, respectively.
"If it's an unlawful mandate you can refuse to mandate it. You can dissent to the United States Supreme Court," Moore said in a testy interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." "I will follow the law as I interpret it."
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How about a Tenth Amendment statement about “powers reserved to the states?”
How can you “defy” SCOTUS with no ruling on law?
Yep, there is no such thing as a federal marriage license.
Go, Judge, GO!!
Sounds more like a Jacksonian posture. Thank the court for their opinion, then invite them to enforce it themselves.
This is all an effort to have gays declared a protected class and give them special “rights” not available to others.
Looks like the Alabama voters really like Judge Moore.
Good. Someone has to defend God’s law. EVERY ONE of our organic law principles was derived from scripture. The U.S. Constitution was built on the bedrock of the Biblical world view.
We need to start stripping away the laws that are not anchored in that basic source of all righteous law. Roy Moore is leading the way.
“This is all an effort to have gays declared a protected class and give them special “rights” not available to others.”
As has been done MANY times with other groups — in violation of states’ rights.
Moore belongs on the SC. Would love to see Cruz nominate him someday, and solidly conservative Senate seat him promptly.
God bless Chief Justice Roy Moore!
“Behind his heavy wooden desk in the judicial building Monday morning, Chief Justice Moore, a confident, 67-year-old West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran, was unapologetic and firm in his position that the federal judiciary has seriously overreached in its effort to impose same-sex marriage in Alabama — a state where 81 percent of voters passed a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage in 2006”.
We dare defend our rights.
That’s a good point.
yes. any individual citizen in good standing and in good conscience can choose to dissent, knowing and accepting the consequence, from any illegal order.
If this resulted in a real standoff (doubt it would go that far) I’ll bet obama would send feds down here to enforce the SC ruling. I can see it now - fed agents and blacks as props for the cameras. Obama would send troops to alabama before he would send them to fight ISIS. We are more of an enemy than islamic terrorists to obama.
With all the legalistic reaching that is thrown around, this is rarely mentioned.
This is what needs to happen everywhere.
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