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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Suspended Over Actions Opposing Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/breaking_alabama_chief_justice_roy_moore_suspended_over_actions_against_same_sex_marriageAlabama Chief justice Roy Moore has been suspended and faces possible removal from office after a state commission Friday night charged him with six counts of ethics violations surrounding his actions against same-sex marriage. Moore in January ordered all probate judges in Alabama to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite the Supreme Court having ruled same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage.
The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission has forwarded those charges to the Alabama Court of the Judiciary. That court will hear and rule on the charges.
Despite rulings by both a federal judge and later, the U.S. Supreme Court, "Moore instructed probate judges throughout Alabama to ignore those higher courts and to refuse to issue licenses to same-sex couples," AL.com reports.
Moore and his attorney, the head of an anti-gay hate group, Liberty Counsel, last month held a press conference to explain his positions. He said, “transsexualism is a known mental illness,” and claimed there "is nothing in writing that you will find that I told anybody to disobey a federal court order. That’s not what I said.”
The Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission has forwarded those charges to the Alabama Court of the Judiciary. That court will hear and rule on the charges.
Despite rulings by both a federal judge and later, the U.S. Supreme Court, "Moore instructed probate judges throughout Alabama to ignore those higher courts and to refuse to issue licenses to same-sex couples," AL.com reports.
Moore and his attorney, the head of an anti-gay hate group, Liberty Counsel, last month held a press conference to explain his positions. He said, “transsexualism is a known mental illness,” and claimed there "is nothing in writing that you will find that I told anybody to disobey a federal court order. That’s not what I said.”
Judicial Inquiry Commission chair Nelson Muntz commented:
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