[King of Florida]

I'm sorry, this is not a matter of opinion. The effect of the dismissal order is a simple matter of fact, and there are no lines to read between or tea leaves to read. The petitioners wanted the court to defy SCOTUS. The court dismissed the petitions. End of story.

If the court really had decided to defy SCOTUS, this would be front page news across the country. (Indeed, someone up thread was puzzled why it was not.) It would be an unprecedented move by a state, or at least one without precedent since the Civil War. But the court didn't and it's not front page news. It's not even much in the way of news. I have no idea why Liberty Counsel trumpeted this as a victory. It's not.

[Repeal 16-17]

From Chief Justice Roy Moore's concurring opinion:

Today this Court by order dismisses all pending motions and petitions and issues the certificate of judgment in this case. That action does not disturb the existing March orders in this case or the Court's holding therein that the Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, art. I, § 36.03, Ala. Const. 1901, and the Alabama Marriage Protection Act, § 30-1-9, Ala. Code 1975, are constitutional. Therefore, and for the reasons stated below, I concur with the order.

Note the highlighted portion. The Alabama Supreme Court already upheld the State's gay-marriage ban, in defiance of Obergefell v. Hodges. This decision did not disturb the earlier decision.