Stewart Slams Alabama Chief Justice for Worry About Precedent of Same-Sex Marriage

‘This isn’t about the unlucky possibility of some far off future where people get married in groups — it’s about real people whose lives are being affected by this right now’

STEWART: "Well, Judge Moore is making an old state's rights case that Article 6 of the Constitution clearly refutes.  You wouldn't happen to have other less legallish reasons to do this, would you?"
MOORE [video]: "I think the redefinition of the word marriage is not found within the powers designated to the federal government. Did they stop with one man and one man or one woman and one woman, or do they go to multiple marriages. Or do they go with marriages between men and their daughters or women and their sons."
STEWART: "It's all in the judges book, 'A thousand and one things American equality will in no way impact but will somehow scare the [bleep] out of me the actual Chief Justice of an American state in 2015.' It's a long title that I really [bleep] as I was saying it. Anyway, the point is this. This isn't about the unlucky possibility of some far off future where people get married in groups. It's about real people whose lives are being affected by this right now."
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NARRATOR: "In mobile, Milton Persinger faced a closed window."
PERSINGER: "I should already be home celebrating but no, I'm sitting here wondering what in the world are these people thinking?"
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STEWART: "Oh, well, I think the Mardi Gras stickers on that closed window give you a sense of what those people are thinking. They are thinking, we completely normal heterosexuals totally accept transforming the beginning of the Christian season of lent into a tit-for-bead bacchanal. But we can't allow you two gentlemen to get married because that's weird."

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