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Roy Moore has announced that he's running for governor of
Alabama in 2006. Gay people in that state will be better off
if a Siamese cat wins the election.
You remember Moore. He's the fellow with 5,300 pounds of affection
for the Ten Commandments.
In 2000 Alabama voters elected him chief justice of the state
Supreme Court and the next July he had that hefty granite
monument of the Commandments installed in the rotunda of the
state judicial building. He refused a federal judge's order
to remove it and in November of 2003 he was himself removed
from office.
Early in the fracas Moore told the Los Angeles Times that
as chief justice, "I am the highest legal authority in
the state. And I wanted it there."
A man of stellar reasoning and Christian humility. And Alabamians,
who polled significantly in favor of the Commandments' public
display, might go for the ninny. But gay Alabamians would
be twisted to vote for Moore - even if they believe in displaying
the Ten Commandments on their front lawn, illuminated so fiercely
the words can be read from space.
In 2002, while the monument brouhaha was unfolding, the Alabama
Supreme Court ruled unanimously against a lesbian seeking
custody of her children from their allegedly abusive father.
According to press reports the case hinged on a legal matter,
not sexual orientation. But public-spirited Chief Justice
Moore took it upon himself to make really, really sure people
understood as well that this woman was wicked.
He offered a 35-page concurring opinion that made gay rights
groups have a stroke. I wondered, while reading about this
case, if the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force had overreacted
when describing the document as a flood of "abhorrent
rhetoric." Would a judge really spend his valuable time
crafting 35 pages solely to argue gays are slime, even when
the case has been decided his way, and the effort would have
no judicial weight?
Is the Pope German?
Reading Moore's polemic is a trip. He wrote, "Homosexual
conduct is, and has been, considered abhorrent, immoral, detestable,
a crime against nature and a violation of the laws of nature
and of nature's God upon which this Nation and our laws are
predicated." Oxygen, anyone?
Moore said a parent's gay behavior alone is good enough reason
to deny custody, and homosexuality is a horror from which
kids must be protected. He goes on a tour through state civil
law, anti-gay "educational programs" in public schools,
English common law, natural law, Genesis, St. Thomas Aquinas,
and eventually you wonder how you escaped burning at the stake
after your first same-sex date.
"Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act
of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime
against nature, an inherent evil and an act so heinous that
it defies one's ability to describe it." His ability
to describe it wasn't defied one iota.
If you don't find all this appalling or terrifying, let me
offer one last gem: "The State carries the power of the
sword, that is, the power to prohibit conduct with physical
penalties, such as confinement and even execution. It must
use that power to prevent the subversion of children toward
this lifestyle, to not encourage a criminal lifestyle."
And you thought Martha Stewart got a raw deal.
The man who plans to be the next governor of Alabama believes
the state can and should kill gays. This tidbit was absent
from the national press pieces I read about Moore's announcement.
So it's up to us to blab this news far and wide. Using our
criminal network.
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