Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is a dick. If you’ve successfully wiped his name from your memory, I’m sorry to have to remind you that Roy Moore is that Alabama judge who thinks that the highest court in Alabama is more authoritative than our nation’s Supreme Court.
This is not about any wrong-doing I’ve done. This is not about ethics. This is about marriage.
No, it’s about being intolerant of other relationships outside of heterosexual relationships. That’s what that is about.
We are at a time, where only a few years ago, people who would have been ascribed a mental illness, a mental disorder...
Why the press conference?
Asked why he called the press conference, Staver said he was not anticipating an immediate ruling by the JIC [Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama], but wanted to clear up what he believed were mischaracterizations. Moore said his orders to probate judges never instructed them to defy a federal order.
Moore said the complaint to the JIC, which was filed in January, was politically motivated. He referred to one of the complainants, Ambrosia Starling, as being a "transvestite" who illegally performed a mock same-sex marriage ceremony in the state. Moore then referred to "transexuality" as being a "mental disorder" until 2013, when a diagnostic manual used by the medical community replaced gender identity disorder in the handbook.
Justice Roy Moore goes from blabbering about mental illness to how this situation is about the right of a justice to “speak about the law.” No. It’s not. At all. Justice Roy Moore made a ruling that flies in the face of the highest court of law in our country’s decision on the issue of same-sex marriage. This isn’t about speech. This is about law.