Roy Moore isn't going to go quietly.
Alabama's Supreme Court chief justice and Right Hand of God has declared that same-sex marriage licenses can be granted now but probate court officials are not forced to do so for 25 days -- until the Supreme Court ruling becomes final.
Anything to delay the inevitable.
Two counties have already said that they will no longer issue marriage licenses to anyone. And a probate judge in another county has said before that he would rather go to jail than perform a same-sex marriage.
Of course, the GOP governor of Alabama, Robert Bentley, has already said that the state will comply with the law.
And that has prompted Win Johnson, Moore's lawyer and the director of the legal staff at the Alabama Administrative Office of Courts, to fire off a letter to Bentley reminding him that public officials are "ministers of God" who must resist wickedness and fight this terrible Supreme Court ruling.
Public officials are ministers of God assigned the duty of punishing the wicked and protecting the righteous. If the public officials decide to officially approve of the acts of the wicked, they must logically not protect the righteous from the wicked. In fact, they must become protectors of the wicked. You cannot serve two masters; you must pick – God or Satan.
The criminal laws against homosexual sodomy are for the protection of the righteous, particularly the young, the weak, the vulnerable, who need the law to teach them right from wrong when in a vulnerable state. The U.S. Supreme Court, although it claims to have done so in 2003, cannot take something that God calls a crime and declare it not a crime.
Yes, it is that melodramatic.
Johnson says he did not clear the letter with Moore first -- maybe he thinks Moore is not sufficiently anti-wicked. So he implores state officials not to "leave the people of this State, their children, your children and grandchildren to the wolves."
Apparently, newly married gay residents of Alabama threaten to roam the state in large packs and tear children apart with their fangs -- unless the righteous stand up to the wicked, or some such bullshit.
Johnson goes full drama queen by insisting that public officials in Alabama must choose between God or Satan.
And he closes the letter by urging resistance to the Supreme Court's ruling:
What can you do? You have authority as an elected official. You also are sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution and Alabama Constitution. Find a way to do so. Don't acquiesce to the takeover (actually the takedown)! Use your authority and every legal angle to oppose the tyrants! If necessary, just say, "No." It is not rebellion for you to say, "Your interpretation of the Constitution is wrong, beyond your authority, and detrimental to this nation." In fact, it's your duty. You're not opposing the rule of law, you're upholding it by saying that.