GOP Candidate Roy Moore: Gay Marriage Is "Even Worse" Than Slavery

Roy Moore

Roy Moore, currently the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama, told the audience of Here I Stand podcast last year that the Supreme Court Obergefell ruling that legalized same-sex marriage was “even worse” than the hideous 1857 Dred Scott ruling that upheld slavery.

“In 1857 the United States Supreme Court did rule that black people were property. Of course, that contradicted the Constitution, and it took a civil war to overturn it.

"But this ruling in Obergefell is even worse in a sense because it forces not only people to recognize marriage other than the institution ordained of God and recognized by nearly every state in the union, it says that you now must do away with the definition of marriage and make it between two persons of the same gender or leading on, as one of the dissenting justices said, to polygamy, to multi-partner marriages."

Bolding is mine.

Moore has been removed from the position of chief justice of the Alabama state Supreme Court twice for failing to follow the law.

Once, for refusing to remove a monument of the ten commandments he had placed on courthouse grounds; and the second time for instructing probate judges in Alabama to ignore the Obergefell ruling in 2015.

Real Clear Politics shows Moore an average of 6 points ahead of his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones.

The special election to replace Jeff Sessions, who resigned to become U.S. Attorney General, is on December 12.