Ambrosia Starling speaking at an anti-Roy Moore rally. (Contributed photo/YouTube)

A Dothan entertainer is in Roy Moore's crosshairs after the state's Chief Justice was suspended Friday night on charges he instructed probate judges throughout Alabama to ignore high court rulings legalizing same-sex marriage.

Ambrosia Starling, "a professed transvestite" and "other gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals, as well as organizations that support their agenda," are behind the efforts to have him removed from office, Moore said.

"Every bully always picks on the weakest kid in the room, and he thought that was going to be the drag queen," Starling said Saturday. "A lot of people make that mistake."

Moore was suspended Friday night following an Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission investigation into whether he violated judicial ethics by ordering probate judges throughout the state not to issue same-sex marriage licenses despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The suit was filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, People for the American Way, the Human Rights Campaign, Starling and other LGBT rights activists.

Moore now faces a hearing before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary and potential removal from office.

Who is Ambrosia Starling?

In a Facebook profile, Starling is described as an "entertainer, an advocate for equality. a defender of my community and a damned good cook!"

A lifelong resident of Dothan, Starling has participated in and hosted anti- Moore protests, including a rally earlier this year in Montgomery urging the ouster of the chief justice.

"The message that I would personally like to send to Roy Moore today is that bullying and discrimination are not ministerial duties. Taking people's civil rights is not a ministerial duty," Starling said after a January protest. "It is the duty of a judge to treat all citizens of their state and their national equally and fairly."

The Chief Justice had first mentioned Starling's name in April when he responded to the initial filing.

"This person (Starling) and some of the people around her, would have been said to have a mental disorder-gender identity disorder according to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association," Moore said last month.

Being called crazy by Moore doesn't seem to have bothered Starling.

"I am crazy for democracy," Starling said. "I'm insane for civil rights and better behavior. I am out of my mind when I see people losing their manners and disrespecting people they don't know."

For Starling, manners are important -- something her grandmother taught her when she was a child. Manners are free, she said, and a lack of manners is what causes every war.

"Manners is a lot more than 'please' and 'thank you' and what fork you use at a fancy dinner," she said. "At the core of it all, manners is about respecting each other, in any society, in any country."

And Moore is a man without manners.

While the suit against Moore was filed by multiple groups and people, Starling appears to have taken the brunt of this Chief Justice's ire, saying she and "some of the people around her, would have been said to have a mental disorder-gender identity disorder according to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association."

Starling worries that Moore's fixation on her denies credit to others who filed complaints with the Judicial Inquiry Commission and spoke at the rally earlier this year.

"There were eight other speakers up there -- ministers, socials activists and military," Starling said. "All he saw was a transvestite. I want to say a personal thank you to every person who took the time to fill out the more than 50 judicial complaints. They deserve as much credit for this as I do."

Please share at will my initial response to Roy Moore. FROM A DRAG QUEEN WHO CARES Posted by Ambrosia Starling on Friday, April 29, 2016

Moore also accused Starling of performing an "illegal" wedding ceremony following his order. On Friday, Rev. Fred L Hammond, a minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Tuscaloosa, said that was untrue.

"The facts are Ambrosia Starling did not officiate a wedding on January 12th. I did," Hammond wrote in a blog post. "As a judge in the attempts to answer complaints on your defiance of a US Supreme Court Ruling, you have once again violated your own profession's ethics by making these inflammatory statements against a private citizen.

"It was an attempt to discredit Ambrosia Starling's and other's complaints against your ethical conduct. It was an attempt to inflict injury on Ambrosia Starling's reputation. I see you. I see what you are trying to do and it is offensive, not only personally offensive, but offensive to the citizens of this state."

This post was updated at 2:00 p.m. May 7 to include comments from Starling. Kyle Whitmire contributed reporting for this article. William Thornton contributed to this report.

