This is 25-minutes of news media gold, where CNN's Chris
Cuomo called into question Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore’s decision to ignore a marriage
equality ruling. It's every argument that could be made, featuring every baseless answer Moore could muster up from his fundamentalist religious war on our constitution. This 25 minute segment goes by very quickly.
Cuomo’s bottom line to Moore; "You are clinging to a
definition that you believe is divine."
Cuomo: "This is just like the Ten Commandment situation. You were told by the federal courts that you should remove the Ten Commandments from the public square. You didn't want to and you wound up losing your job from it but on principle you felt you did the right thing, is that not true?"
Moore: "I must act when the jurisdiction of the probate courts is interfered with by one lone judge ... Nobody's arguing about racial discrimination. This is about sexual preference over coming an institution which has existed in our United States for centuries … Our rights contained in the Bill of Rights don't come from the Constitution, they come from God."
Cuomo: "You are putting God before the laws of man. That's not what we do in this country. That's not how it works."
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