Roy Moore Doesn't Support Marriage Amendment

Forward ^ | March 1, 2004 | Ami Eden

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Ami Eden has an interview with Roy Moore in which the former Alabama judge declares his non-support for Bush's proposed anti-gay-marriage amendment. His reasoning is that the amendment would trample on states' rights.

"I don't think you can make a constitutional amendment for every moral problem created 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 amendments made 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."

Moore warned that an amendment could eventually be mistaken as the source of morality and then be reinterpreted down the road by judges or legislators. For example, he said, the amendment being pushed by conservatives simply defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, leaving the door open to future officials who could argue that the measure does not prohibit incestuous unions.

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The actual word added "-got", since this is FR I did not think it appropriate to used such open swear words on FR. No hesitation, just time place and manner for those around me.