Alabama Chief Justice fights back against campaign to oust him for upholding marriage
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is fighting back as leftist activists campaign to remove him from office over his stand for natural marriage. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and numerous atheists and LGBT activists have filed complaints with the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission against Moore, alleging ethical misconduct for urging state probate judges to uphold Alabama’s marriage laws and not a federal court ruling striking them down. But on Wednesday, Justice Moore asked the commission to dismiss the complaints, saying at a press conference that they are groundless and “politically motivated.” “This is not about a wrongdoing I’ve done. This is not about ethics. This is about marriage,” said Moore, according to Alabama News. “There’s nothing in writing that you will find that I told anybody to disobey a federal court order.” Moore has ordered probate judges in Alabama to uphold the state’s laws defining marriage a...