Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore on
Sunday said that a Supreme Court order striking down state bans on gay
marriage would be “wrong.”
Moore, who ordered Alabama probate
judges to ignore a federal judge's order invalidating that state's
marriage ban, made his comments during an appearance on Fox News
Sunday.
On the program, host Chris Wallace
reminded Moore that he was removed from the bench a decade earlier by
a state ethics board that said he had placed himself “above the
law” in defying a federal appeals court ruling ordering him to
remove from public property a 2-ton granite monument of the Ten
Commandments which he had commissioned. Voters reinstated Moore in
2013.
“Aren't you doing the same thing now,
sir?” Wallace
asked.
“I was obeying the First Amendment of
the United States Constitution which does not prohibit the
acknowledgment of God,” Moore answered. “When federal courts
start changing our constitution by defining words that are not even
there, like 'marriage,' they're going to do the same thing with
'family' in the future.”
Moore went on to say that a Supreme
Court ruling striking down restrictive marriage bans would be
“wrong.”
“[The Supreme Court] may do it, but
they may do it wrongfully. Just like they did in Dred Scott and
Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, when they said that separate but
equal was the policy of the United States.”
“But when the Supreme Court rules,
the Supreme Court rules,” Wallace responded.