Roy Moore thinks that legalizing gay marriage is the worst Supreme Court decision since upholding slavery. Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, breaks down Roy Moore’s comments. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Join TYT: https://goo.gl/v8E64M
“Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore said he believes a Supreme Court ruling allowing loving adults to marry is worse than the court’s 1857 decision that upheld slavery.
In a 2016 podcast interview surfaced by Talking Points Memo on Tuesday, Moore said the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision ― which held that black people were property and could not be citizens ― was a better ruling than the 2015 Supreme Court case allowing gay marriage nationwide. Scholars regard the Dred Scott decision as one of the Supreme Court’s worst.
Moore, who in 2015 was Alabama’s chief justice, ordered state judges to defy the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that allowed gay marriage, and he continued to enforce Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. The stance ultimately led to Moore’s removal from the Alabama Supreme Court.
After his ouster, Moore spoke to “Here I Stand,” a podcast run by the conservative Christian Emergency League, to voice his displeasure and to make the gross comparison of the gay marriage ruling with the slavery decision.
“I was simply pointing out that in 1857, the United States Supreme Court did rule that black people were property,” Moore said on the podcast. “And of course that contradicted the Constitution and it took a civil war to overturn it.”
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