Around 150 people came out to Tuesday's "Remove Roy Moore" rally organized by Equality Wiregrass and the Human Rights Campaign.

Chants of "No Moore," and "Sinners hate, God does not," filled the air in front of the Alabama Supreme Court in Montgomery.

"Roy Moore has supreme contempt for the law of the United States," said Chuck Miller, the Huntsville-based Alabama state director for American Atheists. Miller is straight but spoke as an ally. "Roy Moore may not be taking away my rights today, but tomorrow, he could be."

Last week, Moore issued an order saying that the Alabama Supreme Court's March ruling was still in effect, and that probate judges "have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary" to Alabama's constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage.

Several people at the rally accused Moore of issuing the order as a publicity stunt, both to garner attention for a future run for governor and to move attention off of his son, Caleb Moore, who earlier this month pleaded not guilty to two drug charges in Pike County. One protester held a sign with Caleb Moore's mugshot that said "Attention Roy Moore: Worry about your own damn family."

"I am proud to be here as a native, homosexual of Alabama. I'm about as Alabama as Alabama can be, and my values are love compassion," said James Robinson, Founder and Executive Director of Free2Be, an LGBTQ resource center in Huntsville. "Let's get Roy Moore out of this public office and out of any public office her may one day hope to hold."

A counter-protest of about three dozen people formed lower on the steps.

Dean Young, who said he's known Moore for more than 20 years and is a longtime supporter of him, said at the counter-protest that Moore was right to defend Alabama's laws. Young pointed out that in 2006, 81 percent of Alabamians voted for an amendment to be added to the state's constitution to define marriage as being only between a man and a woman.

"This is just another example of Roy Moore defending the people of Alabama," Young said. "A marriage will always been a man and a woman, no matter what anybody says, even five judges on the Supreme Court."

A similar protest against Moore was held Saturday in Mobile.