# Buh-bye & fuck off Roy Moore

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**Created:** [October 1, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buh-bye-fuck-off-roy-moore/767396 "2016-10-01T19:15:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buh-bye-fuck-off-roy-moore/767396/13 "2016-10-02T02:06:55Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Moore reminds me of some of those people in the Jury Nullification thread, who think that their personal opinion trumps established legal processes.

Yes, because being a bigot against homosexuals is remotely similar to thinking the legal system is unfair and unjust.

If this were reversed, and this guy was an LGBT-ally who supported a clerk who was giving out SSM certificates illegally, and he had the same thing happen to him, I’d say he was a hero and the punishment unjust. And I’m pretty sure I’d have a lot of supporters here.

For some reason, legalists seem to think this is a flaw. But it’s not. I don’t hold the law to be the epitome of virtue. The law can inform what’s right and wrong, but it’s not the be-all end-all. And that’s why maintaining the right of nullification is important.

Until we have a system where no innocent man goes to jail, there will always be a need for nullification. And I am free to argue what I think would make the system work better.

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