MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore should be removed from office again, this time for defying the Supreme Court on gay marriage, lawyers for a disciplinary commission argued Wednesday.

Testifying under oath, Moore called the latest charges ridiculous.

The ethics case involves an administrative order Moore sent six months after the Supreme Court ruled that gays can marry in every state. Moore said then that because the Alabama Supreme Court had not rescinded the state’s gay marriage ban, the state’s probate judges remained bound by it.

The outspoken Republican jurist, now 69, was removed from office in 2003 for violating judicial ethics by refusing to remove a Ten Commandments statue, but voters later reelected him.

The nine-member court now has 10 days to rule on whether Moore violated judicial ethics, and what punishment he should face if so.

A decision to remove him from the bench must be unanimous.

The chief judge, Michael Joiner, said a decision was not likely Wednesday, but will come ‘‘as soon as possible.’’

Associated Press