Q. Do you support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay
marriage?
A. I certainly understand that something needs to be done to stop mayors and judges
and others who are disregarding the law. Interview in NY Times with Roy S.
Moore who defied the law to install the 10 Commandments in his court room in Alabama,
March 6, 2004.
Judge Roy S. Moore, you may recall, defied the law by installing the 10 Commandments, in the form of a big tombstone-like granite marker, in his courthouse, where everybody entering could clearly see it.
Most judges in the United States still happen to think that America is a secular democracy, so he was ordered to remove it. He refused. He defied the law. As a result, he was fired. Now he makes up to $10,000 a pop giving speeches on how to make America into a authoritarian state. Well, he doesn't think it's "totalitarian".
In his opinion, the United States was founded upon Christian principles. Therefore, it was "legal" for him to put the 10 Commandments in a prominent place in his court room. I don't care what he thinks about the founding principles of the United States (he's wrong there anyway). It doesn't matter what he thinks. The legal authorities in Alabama ruled that judges in Alabama have to respect the fact that not every citizen of the United States is a Christian, and that non-Christians are still entitled to justice.
It's not all that uncommon for people to define what is "lawful" as what they do, and what is "unlawful" as what people you don't like do.
Just like war crimes. What the enemy did was immoral. What we did was justified.
This is just an unusually comical representation of it.