State Supreme Court chief justice bars same-sex marriage in Alabama

You read that headline right. This isn't a couple of years ago. This happened Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in the state of Alabama. Roy Moore, the bozo of a judge who did this via administrative ruling, has proved time and time again that he wouldn't know the law if it slapped him in the face. How this fool manages to avoid impeachment, even in a backwoods state like Alabama, is beyond me.

Moore's logic this time is that the Supreme Court ruling applies only to the states directly involved in the case -- Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan and Ohio. While he's right in a very narrow sense, I think if you asked 50 state attorneys general, probably all 50 would agree that the ruling applies in their state. Moore knows better. He's just making headlines and trouble. Who knows? Maybe he's angling for a spot on the Republican ticket :)

But in the meantime, Moore's nonsense has very real consequences. Gay people in the state of Alabama are unable to marry. This is a serious hardship, a denial of a basic right of citizenship, and this needs to be quashed IMMEDIATELY.

The federal courts need to intervene and stop this nonsense ASAP. If Alabama won't comply, President Obama should consider sending in the National Guard. Don't laugh. If you recall, the feds had to do this in order to integrate public schools and universities in some Southern states in the 1950s and 1960s. The same-sex marriage ruling is every bit as important. A state simply cannot be allowed to illegally deny a basic right of citizenship to a minority group of its residents. And I realize gay people are not an ethnic minority, but we are a very real minority group just the same. This kind of crap cannot be tolerated in a nation that believes in the rule of law.

As for the religious rights argument ... It's fine for you to believe whatever you want in the name of religion, a bigoted mind, whatever. But your right to believe what you want does not include being able to deny me my rights as afforded by the Constitution of the United States of America. Moore and other religious bigots don't get this basic understanding of constitutional law.

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