{"id":281884,"date":"2016-10-01T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T22:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281884"},"modified":"2020-11-01T18:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:57:52","slug":"roy-moore-alabama-top-judge-ousted-over-gay-marriage-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fr\/roy-moore-alabama-top-judge-ousted-over-gay-marriage-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Moore: Alabama top judge ousted over gay marriage stand"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Excellent!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Alabama’s top judge has been suspended for the remainder of his term for defying federal court rulings that legalised same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Roy Moore, 69, violated judicial ethics with an order seen as directing probate judges to deny marriage licences to gay couples, a judicial panel ruled.<\/p>\n

The decision was a “politically motivated effort” by radical groups, he said. His lawyer has vowed to appeal.<\/p>\n

It is the second suspension for Mr Moore, an outspoken conservative.<\/p>\n

In 2003, he was removed for refusing to take down a monument of the Ten Commandments he installed at a state building.<\/p>\n

He was re-elected as chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court in 2012.<\/p>\n

In Friday’s decision, the nine-member Alabama Court of the Judiciary unanimously decided to suspend him for the remainder of his term without pay.<\/p>\n

The move essentially removes Mr Moore from the bench, as he will be unable to seek re-election at the end of his term, in January 2019, because of age restrictions, his lawyer Mat Staver said.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the decision, Mr Moore said in a statement: “This was a politically motivated effort by radical homosexual and transgender groups to remove me as chief justice of the Supreme Court because of outspoken opposition to their immoral agenda.”<\/p>\n

The panel found that Mr Moore’s ruling in 6 January showed “disregard for binding federal law” after the US Supreme Court landmark decision in June 2015 affirming gay marriage rights.<\/p>\n

Testifying in his defence, Mr Moore said there was uncertainty after conflicting opinions on gay marriage from state and federal courts.<\/p>\n

Mr Moore is known for his opposition to same-sex marriage, and has called homosexuality an “inherent evil” in the past.<\/p>\n

His suspension was celebrated by the civil rights group that filed the complaints in 2003 and 2016.<\/p>\n

“Moore was elected to be a judge, not a preacher,” Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The people of Alabama who cherish the rule of law are not going to miss the Ayatollah of Alabama.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37528317<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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