MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is accusing the American Bar Association of working to “forcibly elevate sexual behavior, appetites and self-styled identity” by revising its rule regarding discrimination.
The revision would add gender, ethnicity and marital status to the list of protected classes under the ABA’s anti-discrimination rule for attorneys. Sexual orientation has already been on the list.
Chief Justice Moore believes the revised rule would “punish attorneys who have sincerely-held religious or traditional beliefs and wish to obey God and their conscience.”
“By subordinating an attorney’s ethical duties to the sexual orthodoxy du jour, the proposed rule will relegate attorneys with traditional religious to either self-censorship or professional scorn,” he wrote in a letter to the ABA.
The rule is set for a final vote later this year at a conference in San Francisco.
(h/t Montgomery Advertiser)
