On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer hailed Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore as a modern-day Martin Luther King, Jr. for his order to state probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a federal judge struck down the state’s gay marriage ban.

Fischer laughably asserted that it is the federal judge, not Moore, “who is standing in the courthouse doorway … in defiance of both the law and the Constitution,” before praising Moore and the probate judges who are refusing to grant marriage licenses to gay couples as the heirs of MLK.

“What Judge Moore and these probate judges are doing is in the finest tradition of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” he said. “They are waging the civil rights battle of this decade, using nonviolent protest to do it”: