{"id":49393,"date":"2015-01-27T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/ten-commandments-judge-cries-tyranny-over-gay-marriage-ruling.html"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:29:51","slug":"ten-commandments-judge-cries-tyranny-over-gay-marriage-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/ten-commandments-judge-cries-tyranny-over-gay-marriage-ruling.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Ten Commandments&quot; judge cries &quot;Tyranny!&quot; over gay marriage ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Roy Moore &#8212; did you never meet a federal court ruling you thought didn&#39;t apply to you?<\/p>\n<p>Quoth Moore: <i>&quot;As you know, nothing in the United States Constitution grants the federal government the authority to redefine the institution of marriage.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#39;d put in a state justice building didn&#39;t apply to him. He&#39;s now Chief Justice in Alabama, so that&#39;s not likely to happen again, but that doesn&#39;t mean he knows what he&#39;s talking about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2015\/01\/alabama_chief_justice_roy_moor_1.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1urI9hsG4AEH1gFa6WNVyOGnyPI9IpW15AIGKbxdiZrhDTs_X4Tk8v_z0QLcOf7u4TTKOAz-ijVbNGCrBCreNCL_ONhQQUw68id_bgI5Bx5Dj6NjrdIGA8rZiaEuB8LYDMw-CzmbU5jk=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2015\/01\/alabama_chief_justice_roy_moor_1.html'>Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore says he will continue to recognize ban on same-sex marriage<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMoore wrote a three-page letter to Gov. Robert Bentley about Friday&#8217;s federal court ruling.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Be2mEkhdGH2'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Roy Moore &#8212; did you never meet a federal court ruling you thought didn&#39;t apply to you? Quoth Moore: &quot;As you know, nothing in the United States Constitution grants the federal government the authority to redefine the institution of marriage.&quot; No, but the 14th Amendment does allow the federal government (in the courts) to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/27\/ten-commandments-judge-cries-tyranny-over-gay-marriage-ruling.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Ten Commandments&quot; judge cries &quot;Tyranny!&quot; over gay marriage ruling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131699,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/roy-moore-has-been-suspended-again-from-his-judicial-role.html","url_meta":{"origin":49393,"position":0},"title":"Roy Moore has been suspended (again) from his judicial role","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Oct-16 8:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Moore, as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, had told lower courts in Alabama that they could -- in fact, had to -- ignore the SCOTUS Obergefell ruling that said preventing same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. He was suspended for the rest of his term by the state's own judicial\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6849,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/next_up_the_ten.html","url_meta":{"origin":49393,"position":1},"title":"Next up &#8230; The Ten Tattoos!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Dec-04 1:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Since they can't post the Ten Commandments in the courtroom, Alabama conservative judges are now ... wearing them embroidered on their robes. 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Both are strictly antiabortion, support conservative fiscal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Richard-Shelby.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":49740,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/alabama-supreme-court-longs-for-the-50s-the-1850s.html","url_meta":{"origin":49393,"position":4},"title":"Alabama Supreme Court longs for the 50s. The 1850s","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Mar-15 6:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Federal court rulings? We don't need no stinking federal court rulings!\" Because state nullification worked so well last time.And for such (pardon me) bullshit rationales:The Alabama court ruled state bans on gay marriage aren't discriminatory since they ban both men and women from marrying people of the same sex, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31866,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/condolences-to-the-few-sane-folk-in-alabama.html","url_meta":{"origin":49393,"position":5},"title":"Condolences to the few sane folk in Alabama","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Dec-12 8:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That the majority chose this previously-disgraced yahoo as your State Supreme Court Chief Justice is ... so sad. 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