Ah, Roy Moore — did you never meet a federal court ruling you thought didn't apply to you?
Quoth Moore: "As you know, nothing in the United States Constitution grants the federal government the authority to redefine the institution of marriage."
No, but the 14th Amendment does allow the federal government (in the courts) to identify state laws that are violating equal protection under the law and so declare them unconstitutional.
The Alabama Alabama Court of the Judiciary removed Moore from being a judge back in 2003 when he declared that a federal ruling removing a Ten Commandments plaque he'd put in a state justice building didn't apply to him. He's now Chief Justice in Alabama, so that's not likely to happen again, but that doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he will continue to recognize ban on same-sex marriage
Moore wrote a three-page letter to Gov. Robert Bentley about Friday’s federal court ruling.
