Earlier this week, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore tried a last-ditch, unsuccessful effort to stop gay marriage in the state, directing state and officials and employees to just not grant marriage licenses, in defiance of a recent federal ruling. But Moore, who has called homosexuality “evil,” wants you to know all this doesn’t mean he’s homophobic.
In an interview with Bloomberg Politics, which we saw via Talking Points Memo, Moore says that, to the contrary of everything that his words and actions and every life choice he’s ever made might indicate, “I have many homosexual friends.”
Host Mark Halperin asked Moore if he was flattered by recent comparisons to segregation-era Alabama Governor George Wallace, who famously stood at the door of University of Alabama to physically block two black students from entering the building after a federal order declared segregation unconstitutional.