Conservative group to hold rally in support of suspended Roy Moore

A coalition of conservative groups is hosting a rally near the Capitol building Saturday, May 21, in support of suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, saying liberal groups have unfairly targeted him for his stance on same-sex marriage.

“We can’t believe what’s unfolding before our eyes here in Alabama and across the nation,” wrote the group’s spokesperson Hannah Ford in a news release. “If you’ve ever wanted to be a voice for truth, for God, for marriage, for morality, for the Gospel, for your children and grandchildren, for the Constitution of the United States, and the laws of Alabama, this is your time. Chief Justice Moore has been a lone voice for God’s law and for a proper interpretation of the Constitution in the midst of those who hate both and now they’re trying to take him down.”

Moore was suspended from his position following complaints made to the Judicial Inquiry Commission by the ACLU and other civil rights activism groups.

The appointed body, which oversees the state’s judges, said the 69-year-old jurist “abused his office by issuing an administrative order to probate judges in January telling them an Alabama court order and law banning same-sex marriages remained in effect despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming same-sex marriage six months earlier,” according to a report by The Associated Press.

The suspension is Moore’s second, his first ending in an eventual removal from office in 2003 for violating a federal judge’s order to remove a large Ten Commandments monument from public property. Moore was subsequently re-elected to his position in 2010 in a landslide win.

The rally will be held at the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building, 300 Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 21.

For more information about the event, including parking instructions, click here.