Hate Watch: Rallying against hate on the bench:

Clergy representing scores of Alabama and Southern houses of worship joined local and national gay rights advocates on the front steps of Alabama’s Supreme Court yesterday, calling for the removal of Chief Justice Roy Moore for “hateful and homophobic remarks” made in a recent judicial opinion…

Moore’s incindiary remarks came in his concurring opinion in a child custody case between a lesbian mother and heterosexual father. The unanimous opinion of the court, which allowed the father to keep custody of his two children, made no mention of the mother’s sexuality. Justice Moore, however, attached a long concurrence saying that homosexuality is “an inherent evil against which children must be protected.” tolerance.org