Speakers at a rally to support suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore on Saturday took strong stances in the national controversy over transgenderism and public bathroom facilities.

They condemned President Barack Obama's directive that public schools allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms that align with how their gender identity and not necessarily with their biological gender.

Kayla Moore, wife of the chief justice, touched on the transgender bathroom issue in her remarks to a cheering crowd.

"What business is it of Obama -- I'm sorry, I have a hard time calling him the president -- to say who or what can go into our bathrooms?" Kayla Moore said.

She later said her concern about the issue is based partly on the fact that she's a grandmother.

"I have five little girls back home that call me 'Grandma,'" she said. "And I will not stand by and see a man pretending to be a woman going to their restrooms in schools and locker rooms and other facilities."

State Sen. Dick Brewbaker, R-Montgomery, who is chairman of the Senate's Education Committee, urged those at the rally to let their local school officials know where they stand.

"In every public school in this country, this issue is about to come home in a big way," Brewbaker said.

"You've got mayors, you've got school board members, you've got principals, you've got people that live in your community that run these schools. The question is, are they going to run them according to a mandate like this or not. Do not let them get away with telling you there's nothing they can do about it."

Rusty Johnson, a pastor from Irvington, drew cheers when he called for prayer and other action in what he said was a war against demonic forces.

"This is a spiritual conflict and we're not fighting against flesh and blood," Johnson said. "The homosexual movement and the transgender movement and the bathroom movement, all these things, it is a spiritual conflict."