Roy Moore Takes Aim at N.Y. Same-Sex Marriage Law

Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, best known for his defense of the Ten Commandments in his courthouse and being removed from office for taking on the federal government over the matter, issued a statement on Monday attacking the decision by New York to allow same-sex marriage in the Empire State.

"Whether by judicial activism or backroom politics, homosexual activists continue to attack and redefine natural and God-given notions of family and marriage, said Moore, now with the Foundation for Moral Law and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Just as counterfeit currency weakens the real dollar, giving same-sex relationships the status of 'marriage' counterfeits and devalues real marriage between a man and a woman. This is a nationwide movement to destroy marriage itself by divorcing it from all its biblical, moral, and historical foundations.

"In no state of the Union have the people ever sanctioned by popular vote same-sex marriage. An amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring marriage between one man and one woman would pass the legislatures of at least three-quarters of the states, as required, and could become the 28th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.