HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Ambrosia Starling, the drag queen turned Roy Moore antagonist, says he may turn his newfound notoriety in the LGBT community and among Alabama’s liberal media establishment into a run for governor in 2018.
“If you want Ambrosia Starling for governor and you think that is what it’s going to take,” Starling said at a Huntsville rally, “then baby I am all there and all for it. But between now and then, you remember… liberty and justice is for all, not some.”
Starling recently made headlines by being one of the most outspoken opponents of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.
Moore is for the second time facing the possibility of being removed from office after the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) suspended him for “flagrantly disregard(ing) and abus(ing) his authority” with respect to the issue of same sex marriage.
After a federal court struck down Alabama’s gay marriage ban, Moore instructed probate judges around the state to ignore the court’s order and continue upholding the Alabama Constitution, which affirms the traditional definition of marriage. Most probate judges around the state are now issuing same sex marriage licenses, while a handful have opted to stop issuing marriage licenses all together, rather than violate their conscience.
Moore shot back that the commission has “chosen to listen to people like Ambrosia Starling, a professed transvestite, and other gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals, as well as organizations which support their agenda.”
Moore also expressed dismay that the JIC and others are heeding the advice of leaders of this new sexual revolution who “just a few years ago would have been ascribed a mental illness, a mental disorder.”
Starling, who has refused to grant interviews using his real name, dismissed Moore’s comments.
“The Judicial Inquiry Commission for the State of Alabama seems to think I am quite mentally stable, as are more than 50 fellow citizens who have filed such complaints,” Starling said. “You have made much of my actions and those over 120 United States citizens residing in Alabama, while trying to escape the blame for your own actions.”
Starling says dressing up like a woman is “the armor I put on to do battle for my community” and sums up his political agenda in three words: “Have good manners.”
“If it takes a drag queen to stand up and say, ‘this mess ain’t right, we need to get this mess back together and stop running a circus.'” he told the assembled crowd in Huntsville, “Then here I am.”
(h/t WHNT)
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