As the nation grapples with how to handle the current coronavirus outbreak spreading across the country, Roy Moore has just launched a campaign to end same-sex marriage in America because… priorities!
The alleged child molester, who recently came in fourth-place in the Alabama GOP Senate primary, is currently petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
“The Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell could not be logically deduced from the text of the Constitution or found in the longstanding traditions of our people,” Moore’s nonprofit, the Foundation for Moral Law, writes in a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Kim Davis. (Remember her?)
The brief, filed yesterday, continues: “Obergefell not only perverted the Constitution and changed the definition of marriage, but it also jeopardized the religious liberty of Kim Davis and millions of Americans who object to same-sex marriage.”
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The brief goes on to argue that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who authored the court’s 5-4 Obergefell decision in 2015, has since retired and been replaced by Brett Kavanaugh, who probably wouldn’t have voted to legalize same-sex marriage if he had been on the court at the time, and so the whole thing should be retried.
“Now that Justice Kavanaugh has replaced Justice Kennedy, we hope that the Supreme Court will once again allow the states to recognize marriage for what it is: a union between one man and one woman for life,” the brief states.
The Foundation for Moral Law is based in Montgomery and was founded in 2003. It is currently helmed by Moore’s wife, Kayla.
In 2017, the hate group opposed the U.S. Air Force’s nomination of then-Colonel Kristin Goodwin as commandant of cadets of the U.S. Air Force Academy because she is a married lesbian.
Also in 2017, it filed an amicus brief in the case Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., voicing its opposition to transgender rights.
And just last December, it filed a brief challenging Maryland’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, arguing that “many young people want to be delivered from homosexual desires because of their religious convictions.”
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kevins48
Grabbles?
Heywood Jablowme
Graham Gremore gets a grip on grabbling. Good grief!
James Hart
Roy Moore is a turd. But so is Queerty. It pretends to have no bias but a “gay bias,” but it only singles out people on the right for condemnation.
How about Queerty going after Andrew Gillum, the supposedly happily married “heterosexual” liberal Democrat in Florida, who was allegedly found overdosing on Crystal Meth with a gay escort in a tony South Beach hotel? I guess Republicans, conservative Democrats, and conservative independents are fair game, but if progressive Democrats do something deplorable, they’re forgiven and given a pass.
I don’t think that the African-American community in Florida, or elsewhere, will give a pass to Gillum for being on the ‘down low.’ Do remember that according to all of the polls, African Americans are more opposed to homosexuality and gay marriage than the general population at large.
Kangol2
@JamesHart, first, Andrew Gillum is pro-LGBTQ, unlike the anti-gay wackos on the right. Do you not understand the difference? Second, you’re committing slander; Andrew Gillum was not “found overdosing on Crystal Meth.” He was found intoxicated, but was cleared to leave to the apartment. Whether he was on “Crystal Meth” remains unknown, as he was not tested. Did you administer the test? Third, whatever his failings, and he has been trashed by the right thus far, HE IS NOT ANTi-GAY, like the right-wing, homophobic Republicans you are clearly defending.
Is Gillum anti-LGBTQ? NO. Has he pushed LGBTQ legislation? NO. Does he actively try to endanger the lives of countless LGBTQ people he doesn’t know? NO.
Do your right-wing Republican pals? YES. Over and over and over.
As for Democrats “being given a pass,” what the hell are you talking about? Democrats constantly have to pay the piper for bad behavior. Bill Clinton was impeached and publicly humiliated. Al Franken resigned and even most of the Democratic Congresswomen who screamed for him to resign now regret that they did. Eliot Spitzer resigned his position in utter humiliation. And on and on it goes.
Lastly, you clearly aren’t “African American” and don’t know a thing about “the African-American community in Florida, or elsewhere,” so please, can it. Instead, ask yourself why the main people constantly trying to harm LGBTQ people and take away our rights are your White right-wing Republican pals. Why? Why are they so full of hate for LGBTQ people? Why do they sit silently by while right-wing judges attack us? Why are they so silent about Saudi Arabia, which kills gay people? Have you asked them? Why are you so silent?
Heywood Jablowme
Well, it’s only fair. We gay people with our sodomy caused God to send the “carona” virus because… um, something.
Cam
Translation: He needs cash and since he lost the election he has no way to make it. Now, he can solicit donations to his “non-profit” by telling people he’s taking on the “Evil Queers”. Then he turns around and pays himself and his wife 95% of the money sent in.
Jim
He’s a creep and a pedophile and a lying member of the Religious Wrong.
Chrisk
Yeah let’s hear the old Pedo talk about a non-existent problem to get the rubes worked up. Talk about effed up priorities
benmiles
queerty.1x.net – awesome project for single men who are looking for a partner for sex
James
Roy Moore is a creep.
boymikefl
He’s angry because he has been identified as an old pervert & banned from every mall & Chucky Cheese. Maybe start crushing & snorting pills like your buddy in DC to calm your anxiety. Sad old pervert.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Paging lethal strain of corona virus….
Jared MacBride
He’s been kicked off the Alabama Supreme Court TWICE, was forbidden to enter a shopping mall when he was a prosecutor because he bothered teenage girls, now rejected by voters in the reddest state in the nation twice in three years – at what point will he realize his 15 minutes were up long ago?
Josh in OR
I can’t wait for his generation to die off. We’ll lose some great people, who will be sorely missed, no question. But we’ll lose the majority of the ones who have a stranglehold on media and government and religion, and that can ONLY be good for us all, considering what they’ve DONE with those stranglehold’s up through now…
Heywood Jablowme
Yes and no. Anytime there are white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the news they’re almost always Millennials or Gen Z. The “incel” freaks, always young. We still read all the time about teenagers bullying gay teenagers into suicide.
I’d love to believe that young people now are all non-homophobic and non-racist and non-sexist and perfect and they sh*t rainbows, but unfortunately it’s just not true!
rbernard
Roy Moore’s Supreme Court gambit won’t work and his provocative actions are designed to stroke his donors.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is a fond believer of the legal principal of “stare decisis”, to stand by [things] decided – the obligation of a judge to stand by a prior precedent.
I think what is more deeply concerning is how the legal group, Alliance Defending Freedom is queuing up several cases meant to be decided by the Supreme Court engineered to marginalize individual marriage rights as we know them. One case in particular is about making a legal determination that LGBTQ marriage and straight marriages are two different things and allowing an employer’s comp plans to exempt LGBTQ marriages from their benefits packages.
There are lots of ways our enemies will come at us, but overturning Obergefell is not likely one of them.