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Roy Moore over the past 25 years has led the fight to protect religious freedom against a Supreme Court which has ruled against democracy and the clear intent of the founding fathers (See Religious Freedom). Even as atheistic, homosexual judges have increasingly discriminated against Christians, ruling that they must photograph gay weddings and design wedding cakes with same-sex figurines on them in violation of their beliefs, culminating in the Supreme Court's attack on democracy in 2015 with Obergefell v. Hodges, Roy Moore has risked his own career repeatedly to emphasize that Almighty God is, as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both stated (see the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments), the giver of inalienable rights and the basis for First Amendment freedoms. 

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In 2015, when the Supreme Court violated the principles of democracy at the heart of the U.S. Constitution by striking down the will of the people as expressed by ballot referendum laws across 30 different states defining marriage as between a man and a woman, to tyrannically dictate its will in support of homosexual marriage to the American people, Judge Moore was one of the very few who stood strong in support of the democratic will of the American people. Judge Moore has also stood up for the rights of children to live. It is ridiculous that even though the earliest pregnancy is at 21 weeks, and thus life clearly begins by then, Democrats oppose a 20-week abortion ban, even though 71% of women support a 20-week abortion ban (see Abortion).

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Summary

Fighting for Religious Freedom, Faith in God, and Democracy Against Judicial Tyranny

Roy Moore has spent the last 25 years standing for religious freedom under the 1st Amendment and against judicial tyranny. He was appointed a Circuit Judge in 1992, and won reelection in 1994 with 62% of the vote. During this time, he drew objections from the ACLU and the attorney for two male strippers charged with murdering a drug addict for his wooden Ten Commandments plaque as well as his practice of opening court sessions with prayer. In 1994 the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Moore which resulted in state Circuit Judge Charles Price declaring Moore's courtroom prayers unconstitutional. 

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Moore defied the ruling as well as Price's new ruling requiring the Ten Commandments plaque be removed within 10 days, resulting in a stay by the Alabama Supreme Court against the ruling, with the case being thrown out for technical reasons in 1998. In 2000, Roy Moore ran for Chief Justice of Alabama and defeated his primary opponent Harold See despite being significantly outraised in campaign funding and the assistance by Karl Rove to See's campaign. Moore then went on to win the general election with over 60% of the vote.

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On July 31st, 2001, Judge Moore had a massive granite monument of the Ten Commandments installed in the Alabama Supreme Court and in a press conference declared, "Today a cry has gone out across our land for the acknowledgment of that God upon whom this nation and our laws were founded... May this day mark the restoration of the moral foundation of law to our people and the return to the knowledge of God in our land." Just a few months later on October 30th, 2001, the ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued Roy Moore to remove the Ten Commandments monument. The resulting trial, Glassrooth v. Monroe, began on October 15th, 2002. 

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On November 18th, 2002, federal U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled that the monument was unconstitutional. An appeals court upheld Thompson's ruling after Moore challenged it, but on August 14th, 2003, Judge Moore nonetheless defied the order to remove the monument. The other 8 members of the Alabama Supreme Court then intervened to avoid $5,000 daily fines on the state of Alabama imposed by Judge Thompson, and had the monument relocated to a non-public side room in the court building. On August 22nd, 2003, the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission had Moore suspended pending investigation by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary. Because of Moore's defiance in refusing to follow court rulings, the COJ then removed Moore from office, a ruling upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court on April 30th, 2004.

Background

Roy Moore was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army after serving in the Vietnam War as a Captain and a Military Police Officer. He graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law. He has been faithfully married to his wife Kayla since their marriage in 1985 with whom he has four children and five grandchildren. At 70 years old has compiled a lifelong record of standing for what is right.

 

These recent allegations fly in the face of an unblemished past, and are the result of political foes, both Democrat and Republican, seeking to discredit him via false allegations after $30 million was spent by Mitch McConnell in the 2017 GOP primary election attempting to defeat him. Despite being outspent over 17 to 1 Roy Moore nonetheless frustrated the Washington political establishment which views him as a threat to its rampant corruption, particularly after his upset against hand-picked Washington favorite Luther Strange.  

 

However, Moore did not go away quietly. In 2012 he won the Republican primary election for Chief Justice of Alabama, defeating the incumbent Chuck Malone with 50% of the vote, and then went on to win the general election against Jefferson County Circuit Judge Bob Vance while receiving 51.8% of votes cast.

 

In 2014 Roy Moore sent letters to all 50 state Governors calling for a constitutional convention to ban homosexual marriage. Following a 2015 decision by U.S. District Judge Callie Granade which struck down Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage (and which had, like the bans in 29 other states, been passed through ballot referendum, i.e. voting by the people of the state), Judge Moore defied the ruling and instructed state clerks not to issue marriage licenses to homosexual couples. Moore ultimately defied the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges and instructed judges to continue following Alabama law as voted upon by the people of Alabama. In Moore's words, "until further decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court that Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment or the Alabama Marriage Protection Act remain in full force and effect."

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Following a similar trial as before, Judge Moore was then suspended without pay for the remainder of his term, as ending in 2019. When the Alabama Supreme Court upheld the suspension on April 20th, 2017, Roy Moore then resigned and announced a run for the U.S. Senate.

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