Today the Human Rights Campaign of Alabama dropped off petitions containing 28,000 signatures asking the Judicial Inquiry Commission to conduct an investigation in an ethics complaint filed against Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.

"We are here dropping off more than 28,000 signatures that we have gotten from people in Alabama and across the country that absolutely stand with us and with LBGT families in Alabama and are asking the judicial committee to investigate the complaint that was filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center against Roy Moore," HRC Alabama Director Ashley Jackson said today inside the Commerce Center on Adams Avenue in Montgomery

The petitions, which were contained in seven boxes, were collected over the last couple of weeks, she said.

"All LGBT families especially in Alabama and anywhere else deserve the same rights as any other family," Jackson said.

A federal judge struck down Alabama's gay marriage ban, making it legal for same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses on Feb. 9. Moore ordered probate judges not to issue licenses to same-sex couples, saying a federal judge doesn't have jurisdiction.

Most probate judges across the state are now issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, but a handful are still holding out waiting for an Alabama Supreme Court ruling.

Several local activists carried the boxes to the Judicial Inquiry Commission's small office on the seventh floor of the Commerce Center. Due to the size of the office, officials only let two people inside the office and only accepted one of the boxes.

Jackson said she suspected the commission wouldn't take every box so the one left behind contained a condensed version of the petitions.

Now, it's unclear when and if the commission will conduct a hearing on the complaint filed against Moore.