Anti-Gay Judge Removed

Remember the judge who refused to follow a federal judge's order to move the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama state courthouse?

Well, that judge was Roy Moore. By unanimous vote, the state's nine-member Court of Judicial Inquiry found that Moore violated judicial ethical standards for defiance of a federal judge's order to move his Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state courthouse. Moore was halfway through his six-year elected term.

Moore is known for his conservative Christian views in rendering decisions. In February 2002 when the state supreme court ruled against a lesbian mother who was seeking custody of her three daughters, Moore used a litany of homophobic adjectives that had gay rights advocates calling for his removal from the bench.

Moore said that homosexuality is "an inherent evil" that should not be tolerated. His decision went on to say that the mother's relationship made her an unfit parent and that homosexuality is "abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature."

When he became Chief Justice Moore, he had the massive Ten Commandments placed in the rotunda of the court.