The Alabama Supreme Court’s chief justice, who has fought against a ruling that struck down the state’s gay marriage ban, on Sunday insisted that federal courts cannot “redefine” marriage.
Chief Justice Roy Moore said on “Fox News Sunday,” that if the Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage, he wouldn’t be “bound” by the ruling.
“I could recuse or dissent as a justice from Delaware did in the Dred Scott case in 1857,” he said.
Moore said that while the state will have to obey the Supreme Court’s ruling, he doesn’t believe that federal courts can create laws on marriage.
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace asked Moore if he was putting himself above the law.
“When federal courts start changing our Constitution by defining words that are not even there, like marriage, they’re going to do the same thing with family in the future. When a word’s not in the Constitution clearly, the powers of the Supreme Court do not allow them to re-define words and seize power,” Moore said. “The power is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states or reserved to the states respectively or to the people.”
“This power over marriage, which came from God under our organic law, is not to be redefined by the United States Supreme Court or any federal court,” he continued.
Moore…when you actually start following “God’s Law” on anything, let me know because I believe you’ve managed to violate about a dozen of them in the last week.
Excuse me sir but you were elected to uphold the constitution and laws of this country. Not a book of fairy tales.
If you cannot find it in yourself to do this you should be removed from office with malice.
The GOP, it turns out, stands for Greedy Oafish or Prejudiced.
Aw, Roy, if you want to be an Old Testament prophet, resign your current job and buy a time machine. Otherwise, STFU and get out of the way of the 21st century.
Or he could just resign, go off and become a priest, and actually, I don’t know, live according to God or something.