'We are a nation under laws,' the southern state's chief executive said to Politico. 'We may not always agree with them, but we obey them.'
The Republican's promise stands in stark contrast to Roy Moore, the state's Supreme Court chief justice. He advised probate judges to ignore US. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade's ruling; she found the state's marriage equality ban unconstitutional.
After the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and US Supreme Court denied to hear the state's petition to stay Granade's finding, probate judges started to marry same-sex couples. Moore insisted those judges were breaking the law. 'They're breaking the Alabama Constitution sanctity of marriage amendment which has not been overturned by the United States Supreme Court,' Moore said last week in a Fox News Sunday interview.
How long the state's equality ban lasts depends on Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The US Supreme Court agreed to hear cases from those states. Federal judges had struck down marriage bans, but those decisions were revered by the US. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Moore has not given any indication he will support a high court finding that makes it possible for LGBTI couples to be married in all 50 states. 'This power over marriage which came from God under our organic law is not to be redefined by the United States Supreme Court or any federal court,' he said to Fox News Sunday.
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