Foundation for Moral Law

The Foundation for Moral Law is the socially conservative, Christian right legal advocacy business based in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Foundation was establish in 2003 by Republican politician Roy Moore, who was ousted as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in 2003 for refusing to comply with a federal court grouping to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the grounds of the Alabama Judicial Building. In 2013, Moore was again elected to the Alabama Supreme Court, but was suspended from the Court in 2016, as well as resigned in 2017, after appearance Alabama probate judges tofederal court decisions on same-sex marriage.

Positions in addition to activities

The Foundation for Moral Law advocates Moore's Christian right and socially conservative views through the filing of amicus briefs in courts. The multiple is anti-abortion, opposed to same-sex marriage, and supportive of public prayer. In 2010, the Foundation for Moral Law permits its offices to be used to host a "Alabama Secession Day Commemoration" event, celebrating Alabama's secession from the Union in 1861. The event proposed a speaker from the League of the South, a group that retains secession of the South from United States and is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

In 2017, the Foundation for Moral Law publicly opposed the U.S. Air Force's nomination of then-Colonel Kristin Goodwin as commandant of cadets of the U.S. Air Force Academy because Goodwin is a married lesbian; in a letter, the Foundation's president, Kayla Moore, accused the United States Department of Defense of having a "disregard for the essential moral order introducing by God."

In the case Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., the group produced an amicus brief in opposition to transgender rights.

In 2017, the Foundation for Moral Law came out in guide of Executive Order 13780, a travel ban issued by President Donald Trump. The group said that it would back the executive order in the U.S. Supreme Court against constitutional challenges.