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Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court, which recently ruled in opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage decision, blasted the American Bar Association for elevating “sexual behavior, appetites, and self-styled identity to the level of unchanging characteristics such as race, sex, ethnicity and national origin.”
“I am under no illusions that the ABA is a conservative or even an apolitical organization, but I would expect it to defend the sanctity of the attorney-client relationship rather than punish attorneys who have sincerely held religious or traditional beliefs and wish to obey God and their conscience,” Moore wrote to members of the ABA Ethics Committee, care of ethics counsel Dennis Rendleman.
The ABA has proposed a change in its rules that would make it ethical “misconduct” for a lawyer to consider “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” in the attorney-client relationship.
Moore noted that one week ago, he issued an opinion in agreement with the four dissenting U.S. Supreme Court justices in the Obergefell vs. Hodges “same-sex marriage” case, describing the decision as “immoral, unconstitutional and tyrannical.”
“I predicted that the ‘consequences for our society will be devastating, and its elevation of immorality to a special ‘right’ enforced through civil penalties will be completely destructive of our religious liberty,'” he continued.
“As Justice Alito warned, Obergefell ‘will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy’ and ‘exploited by those who are determined to stamp out every vestige of dissent.'”
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