Evil Alabama Mother: God Wants Me To Keep My Dead Son's Husband From Getting Any Money From Wrongful Death Suit

Last month an Alabama woman filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in support of Utah's ban on same-sex marriage. Pat Fancher does not want same-sex marriage to be legalized because if that happens, her former son-in-law would be entitled to the money awarded in the wrongful death suit filed against the trucking company whose driver killed his husband. And God wants her to get that money as today's demand for a summary judgment in Alabama's marriage suit makes very clear.

Pat Fancher’s position and expressed legal interest under Current Alabama Law: Neither the institution of marriage nor acts of homosexuality are recent inventions. However, the notion of redefining marriage as anything other than the union of man and woman are unprecedented in all of human history. Acts of homosexuality have been viewed negatively by many cultures in human history and embraced by others, but no known civilization has redefined marriage to include members of the same sex. This concept is unique to the generation of mankind that now inhabits our world. Ms. Pat Fancher believes that God defined, designed, and destined the family as the basic building block of society, a society on which all systems of order are based.

As such she has strongly held personal beliefs on the issue of God’s design for marriage and same sex marriage. Ms. Pat Fancher believes that this nation’s laws should reflect the moral basis upon which the nation was founded. Furthermore, she believes that the ancient roots of the common law, the pronouncements of the legal philosophers from whom this nation’s Founders derived their view of law, the views of the Founders themselves, and the views of the American people as a whole from the beginning of American history, at least until very recently, have held that homosexual conduct is immoral and should not be sanctioned by giving it the official state sanction of marriage.

Pat Fancher is the mother of the deceased, David Fancher. Under current Alabama law regarding intestate succession Ms. Fancher is the next of kin and mother to David Fancher. Plaintiff Hard requests in the Prayer for Relief of his Complaint that this Court issue an injunction “without regard” to the state of Alabama’s Marriage Protection Act or the state of Alabama’s Constitutional Provisions regarding the sanctity of marriage. This requested injunction asks this Court to prevent the Executor of David Fancher’s estate from distributing the potential wrongful death proceeds to David Fancher’s mother, Pat Fancher, and give over one half of those proceeds to Paul Hard who alleges a claim to a “spousal share.” This claim is contrary to Alabama state law. It is Defendant Fancher’s opinion that Plaintiff’s requested injunction, if granted, will violate the millennia-old institution of marriage as ordained by God.

Read Fancher's full demand at Equality Case Files. Paul Hard is being represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

UPDATE: Here's the horrible story of how Hard was treated at the time of the accident.

Hard said hospital workers refused to provide him any information about Fancher's condition after the accident. A receptionist told him that he was not a member of Fancher's family and that gay marriages were not recognized in Alabama. Hard learned from a hospital orderly that Fancher had died after about a half-hour of trying to get information. A funeral home director later insisted that Fancher's death certificate indicate Fancher was never married, citing state law. "If I can spare one other person that kind of indigity and hurt, I would do it," Hard said after filing his lawsuit. "If I can let people know how this law unjustly and cruelly affects people, I will do it. And ultimately I hope that these laws are overturned so that it now longer can give folks permission to treat Americans as second-class citizens." Hard, 55, who teaches counseling and psychotherapy at Auburn University Montgomery, is also seeking to have Fancher's death certificate changed to say that he was married.

RELATED:  Last week Fancher's backers at the Foundation For Moral Law demanded that Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse themselves from all marriage cases. Fancher's SCOTUS brief was filed by Foundation For Moral Law senior counsel John Eidsmoe, who has a crackpot history that might exceed that of the group's founder, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore. In 2011 Eidsmoe called for Congress to have "ex-gay" torture provided to the US military. That same year he declared that gay service members will molest children. He has also said that all women must submit to their husbands and that the United States must impose biblical laws and punishments or else the nation is doomed. Eidsmoe, NOT incidentally, was Michele Bachmann's professor at Oral Roberts University.