Post submitted by Eva Kendrick, HRC Alabama State Manager
At a hearing earlier this month, a state judicial panel refused to dismiss ethics complaints against disgraced, notoriously anti-LGBTQ Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.
Moore, who is represented by Mat Staver of the Liberty Counsel, an organization that has been designated an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama had their requests for summary judgment from the Alabama Court of the Judiciary denied. The case will go to trial on September 28, where a nine-judge panel will determine whether Moore violated judicial ethics and consider the appropriate punishment.
Moore was suspended from the bench in May over his consistent defiance of marriage equality in Alabama. Following the hearing, HRC Alabama held a press conference on the steps of the Alabama Supreme Court. Earlier this month, HRC Alabama unveiled a billboard in Montgomery that reads“#NoMoore: Dismiss Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.”
HRC and members of the LGBTQ community were present at the Alabama Supreme Court during his hearing, holding a press conference calling for an end to the discrimination, injustice and hate. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what we were met with.
With signs, slurs, and malicious laughter, a crowd of Moore sympathizers berated the state’s LGBTQ and allied community, going so far as to mock the death of Dr. Paul Hard’s late husband. As AL.com reporter John Archibald said, “Christians cannot let these people define their religion.” And we Alabamians cannot let them define our state.
We need all LGBTQ and allied Alabamians to stand up and speak with us as we gather at the Supreme Court on September 28 to say #NoMoore to hate and discrimination.
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