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| Alabama chief justice Roy Moore suspended in gay marriage case | Alabama chief justice Roy Moore suspended in gay marriage case |
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| Alabama chief justice Roy Moore has been suspended for the rest of his term for defying federal gay marriage rulings. | Alabama chief justice Roy Moore has been suspended for the rest of his term for defying federal gay marriage rulings. |
| The punishment effectively removes Moore from office, without the court officially ousting him. The nine-member Alabama court of the judiciary handed down the punishment on Friday after ruling Moore had violating standards of judicial ethics. | |
| Moore was found to have encouraged probate judges to deny marriage licenses to gay couples six months after the US supreme court ruled that everyone had a fundamental right to marry regardless of sexual orientation in all 50 states. | |
| Moore vehemently denied that his administrative order was an act of defiance and said his personal beliefs had nothing to do with it. | Moore vehemently denied that his administrative order was an act of defiance and said his personal beliefs had nothing to do with it. |