The “gay”-advocating media has erupted over the prospect that Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was removed from the bench based on a complaint from the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center which, opposes his support for traditional marriage, is being considered to replace Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who has been nominated to be U.S. attorney general.
“Anti-gay Roy Moore,” the gaystarnews trumpeted, and “disgraced anti-gay Judge Roy Moore” is how Slate opened its argument against Moore.
Gov. Robert Bentley has a list of potential replacements for the long-serving Sessions, and one of those is Moore.
Moore was removed from the state Supreme Court in a ruling by the Court of the Judiciary, which acted on a complaint brought by SPLC, an organization that has been formally linked in a federal court case to domestic terror.
Moore has been fighting the COJ decision, and his appeal has garnered the support of Alabama judges as well as citizens groups and others.
“The judges [supporting Moore’s appeal] contend that the Court of the Judiciary circumvented a rule requiring a unanimous vote to remove a judge from office by instead suspending Moore for the rest of his term,” AL.com explained.
“The judges also claim that the punishment of Moore for what he wrote in an administrative order to probate judges sets a troubling precedent.”
The arguments over “same-sex marriage” were pending before the state court before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision. At that time, the state court opened its doors for comments on how it should address its own pending case.
Six months later, with no decision from the members of the court, Moore notified the probate judges that the court’s previous orders had not changed.
The complainants said the notification was tantamount to telling the judges to disobey the Supreme Court, and the COJ agreed.
But Moore’s supporters said the “severity of the punishment for the chief justice’s administrative speech in this particular case calls for modification by this appellate court lest judges misperceive that their judgement and the expression of that legal judgment must comport with a particular political and religious viewpoint, even when they state a valid, though arguable, point of law.”
SPLC has a long history of unrelenting attacks on anyone who fails to follow its line of support for homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The organization, in pursuit of that agenda, had to backtrack when it labeled Dr. Ben Carson, former GOP presidential candidate and one of the most admired men in America, as a “hater” because of his views on marriage.
Liberty Counsel, which also has been a target of SPLC attacks, said in a report last fall that by “falsely and recklessly labeling Christian ministries as ‘hate groups,’ the SPLC is directly responsible for the case of a man who intended to commit mass murder targeted against a policy organization in Washington, D.C.”
“On August 15, 2012, Floyd Corkins went to the Family Research Council with a gun and a bag filled with ammunition and Chick-fil-A sandwiches. His stated purpose was to kill as many employees of the Family Research Council as possible and then to smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches in their faces (because the founder of the food chain said he believed in marriage as a man and a woman). Fortunately, Mr. Corkins was stopped by the security guard, who was shot in the process. Corkins is now serving time in prison. Mr. Corkins admitted to the court that he learned of the Family Research Council by reading the SPLC’s hate map,” the group reported.
Brian Lyman of the Montgomery Advertiser confirmed that the governor had met formally with Moore about the soon-to-be open position.
Interview does not equal appointment, of course. The governor has spoken with eight candidates to this point. #alpolitics
— Brian Lyman (@lyman_brian) December 21, 2016
Twitter responses ranged from “Not him!” to “Excellent.”
Slate said it expected a “political firestorm” if Moore is selected.
The report blasted Sessions as “a white supremacist who opposes federal civil rights law and believes the NAACP is ‘un-American'” while casting aspersions at Moore as guilty of “gross judicial misconduct” while his case remains on appeal.
Moore also was removed from bench more than a decade ago for installing a Ten Commandments monument in a state building as a representation of the foundation of American law.
But Moore also has been subject of discussions about a run for governor.
WND reported last summer a poll showed Moore was the favorite among Republicans in Alabama for governor in 2018.
According to a Yellowhammernews report, Moore has huge support among Alabama Republicans.
“The Alabama Forestry Association, one of the state’s most influential conservative groups, commissioned a survey of 600 likely Republican primary voters and found that Moore’s sky-high name recognition makes him the GOP’s current top choice for governor in 2018 in what promises to be a crowded field,” the report said.
The report said 28 percent picked Moore, 24 percent were undecided, Attorney General Luther Strange got 9 percent and another handful each drew support in the single digits.
The report said Moore was viewed favorably by 58 percent of the respondents, unfavorably by 29 percent and 11 percent had no opinion.
