Is this the most selfish act ever perpetrated by an anti-gay mother? Possibly. And it’s disgusting.
Pat Fancher apparently loves money and hates gay marriage and her deceased gay son’s husband so much that she’s now hired an attorney and filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to “advise” them to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage.
As The New Civil Rights Movement reported, Pat Fancher is the mother of David Fancher. David legally married Paul Hard in Massachusetts. That’s David in the photo above, on the right, his husband Paul, on the left.
August 1, 2011, David was mortally injured in a car crash when his car struck an overturned UPS truck blocking the northbound lanes of Interstate 65. Hospital workers refused to provide a frantic Paul Hard any information about his husband’s condition. A receptionist callously told Paul that he was not a member of Fancher’s family because “gay marriages” are not recognized in Alabama. After an hour of pleading for information, Paul learned his beloved partner had died from a sympathetic hospital orderly. The following day, the funeral home director informed Paul that pursuant to Alabama law, David’s death certificate would indicate he had never been married. The administrator of David’s estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit, but again, because of Alabama law, ignored Paul’s loss. David’s mother would be the beneficiary of any award.
Pat Fancher has hired Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s Foundation for Moral Law, to fight against same-sex marriage.Â
Last month, on her behalf, the Foundation for Moral Law filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, on the ban in Utah, apparently believing the Court will choose that case, and noting, “the decision of this Court concerning the Utah case will very likely affect the outcome of our Alabama case.”
The Foundation for Moral Law’s Supreme Court brief contends “that this nation’s laws should reflect the moral basis upon which the nation was founded, and 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.”
And now, the Foundation for Moral Law has filed a motion for summary judgment with the United States District Court for Alabama.
Fancher’s motion claims that if Paul Hard is granted his husband’s estate, including the award from the wrongful death suit, that decision “will violate the millennia-old institution of marriage as ordained by God.”
The motion also states “Ms. Fancher deeply loved her son and he loved her. They had a close and loving relationship, even though she had deeply held moral and religious objections to homosexuality, the gay lifestyle, and same sex marriage.”
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Editor’s note:Â A previous version of this article included an image that was not of the Pat Fancher mentioned in this article. We have removed the image and we sincerely apologize for the error.
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Hat tip: Joe Jervis and GLAA