Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, holds a copy of the Constitution as he speaks to the congregation of Kimberly Church of God, Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Kimberley, Ala.
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The dismissal of petitions means the state of Alabama will follow federal law following the June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that same sex marriage was legal in all 50 states.
The Alabama Supreme Court broke their nine month silence on same-sex marriage Friday and in a 9-0 Order simply dismissed all of the pending motions and petitions and refused to lift their Injunction from March 3 that upheld Alabama’s Sanctity of Marriage Amendment.
Most justices who filed opinion in the Alabama case attacked the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling.
He said he wished that the court’s wording was stronger and criticized state high court justices who dissented against the ruling. “It appears to give us no option”.
Despite this, hundreds of same-sex weddings have taken place in Alabama.
Subsequent lawsuits ended up in the state Supreme Court, culminating in Friday’s decision. ‘Obergefell (the SCOTUS case) is but the latest example of the Court’s creation of constitutional rights out of thin air in service of the immorality of the sexual revolution’.
Quoting the 1974 song “Feelings” by Albert Morris, and comparing the arguments in favor of same-sex marriage to a Greek tragedy, Moore accused the high court of relying too heavily on emotional arguments while ignoring historical and biblical mandates about the nature of marriage.
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“Sodomy has never been and never will be an act by which a marriage can be consummated”, Moore wrote. One of those justices, Michael Bolin, said in a separate concurrence that he didn’t agree with Obergefell but he conceded that it was binding authority.
