Friday, March 05, 2004
Monument loon Roy Moore against the Hate Amendment
Granted, I think some of his reasoning is a little flawed ...
Via One38, who points out "when our President is more Conservative than Roy Moore, you know we're totally fucked."
Well ... Yes.
In an exclusive interview with the Forward, Moore, who was removed from his post as chief justice of Alabama last year after defying a federal order directing him to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the state courthouse, criticized efforts to pass a federal marriage amendment. Moore, viewed by many religious conservatives as a hero, complained that an amendment would represent a misguided intrusion into legal territory historically left to the states and warned against the unintended consequences of attempting to define morality through constitutional measures.
"I don’t think you can make a constitutional amendment for every moral problemcreated by courts that don’t follow the law of their states,” said Moore, who is currently waging a legal appeal to get his chief justice job back. "If you do, you pretend to do what God has already done and make it subject to the courts. I think it’s a problem to establish morality by constitutional amendmentsmade by men when the morality of our country is plainly illustrated – in Supreme Court precedent and in state-law precedent and in the common law – as coming from an acknowledgement of God.”
-- The Forward
Via One38, who points out "when our President is more Conservative than Roy Moore, you know we're totally fucked."
Well ... Yes.