Suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on Tuesday released the memos he sent to fellow justices last year urging them to act on a pending petition to bar state probate judges from issuing same-sex marriage licenses.

Portions of the memos have been redacted, but in the portions that weren't, he quotes from Shakespeare, a Kentucky probate clerk Kim Davis, a U.S. Supreme Court justice and an anti-Nazi theologian.

The memos were issued months after the U.S. Supreme Court had declared same-sex marriage legal nationwide in the case Obergefell v. Hodges.

Moore was suspended May 6 after the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) filed judicial ethics charges against him for a Jan. 6 administrative order to probate judges. In that order he stated that a March 2015 Alabama Supreme Court order banning the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples was still in place.

Moore said he wasn't defying the U.S. Supreme Court or federal courts with that order. And in a filing last week to the Alabama Court of the Judiciary, which will hear the ethics complaint against him, Moore explained what was happening in the months before he issued his January order and included excerpts from the memos he had sent to fellow justices last fall urging them to act - one way or another.

On Monday, at the request of the JIC, the chief judge of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary (COJ), Michael Joiner, ordered Moore to submit to him by 5 p.m. Tuesday the full, un-redacted, copies of the memos he sent to his fellow justices on Sept. 2 and Oct. 7. Joiner said he would then decide what, if anything, should be left un-redacted.

Moore's lawyers in Tuesday's response state that Moore is opposed to disclosing the full un-redacted memos and asks that the JIC's motion to disclose them be denied. The two memos submitted Tuesday still contained redacted portions - 88 words in one and 40 words in the other, according to Moore's filing.

Moore's attorneys did provide un-redacted copies of the memos to Joiner for his review, along with the proposed redacted versions, according to an order Wednesday denying the JIC's request.

The Alabama Supreme Court had issued an order in March 2015 - before the U.S. Supreme Court decision - telling probate judges not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The order was issued in response to a petition by the Alabama Policy Institute (API) and other groups opposed to gay marriage.

On June 29, days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Alabama Supreme Court asked for parties in the API case to file briefs on how the Obergefell decision affected its March 2015 order. Briefs were submitted, but after there was no action by the Alabama Supreme Court, Moore began urging his fellow justices to act, according to the memos.

In his Sept. 2, 2015 memo Moore stated he has been "watching with great interest developments in Kentucky as County Clerk Kim Davis refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses as a matter of religious conscience." Moore then noted an AL.com column by a spokesman for Equality Alabama that "clearly suggested that the same pressure placed on Kim Davis will soon be directed against Alabama probate judges ... who do not bow to Obergefell (U.S. Supreme Court same-sex marriage case)."

"As I have said before, Obergefell is particularly egregious because it mandates submission in violation of religious conscience (ask Kim Davis)," Moore told the justice in that Sept. 2 memo. "Either go along or be disqualified from holding public office. In the near future Christians like Clerk Kim Davis will be driven out of public life, forced to forsake their faith or their livelihood."

Moore also cited U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in his minority opinion that Obergefell "will be used to vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy" and "to stamp out every vestige of dissent."

"The suppression of all dissent is now underway," Moore stated.

Moore also cited anti-Nazi theologian Martin Niemoller and Shakespeare's "Julius Ceasar" in urging his fellow justices to act on the API petition.

Updated at 6:05 a.m. Aug. 4, 2016 to note Moore had filed un-redacted copies to Joiner for private review by the judge and that Joiner denied JIC's motion on Wednesday