A man waved a sign that read, “Marry Me, Roy” as gubernatorial candidate Roy Moore predicted Saturday a large majority of Alabama voters will support a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage.

“I doubt very few will disagree,” Moore said during a rally in Athens to raise awareness for the amendment. “This is not about sodomy or two homosexuals getting married, it’s about the destruction of what is ordained by God.”

Alabama residents will vote June 6 on a state Constitutional amendment that would ban marriage between people of the same sex.

“I anticipate over 90 percent approval,” Moore told 150 to 200 people who gathered on the steps of the Limestone County Courthouse.

Only two opponents were visible at the rally.

The man with the “Marry Me, Roy” sign, A. Garth of Athens, wore blue jeans and sandals and carried a bouquet of flowers. The other side of his sign read: “You can’t ban love.”

Garth held the sign, stood among the crowd and quietly recited the Lord’s Prayer with the crowd during the invocation. Three Athens police officers stood behind him in case he started a ruckus.

There was none.

However, Garth did follow Moore as he left early to take a helicopter to an event in Shelby County.

“I’m here because I’m opposed to this amendment,” he said.

At one point in his speech, Moore acknowledged Garth’s sign — at least one side of it.

“It’s not about love, it’s about God,” Moore said. “God is love.”

Another opponent, Julie Murphy of Athens, sat crossed-legged in the street at the edge of the crowd. Her sign read, “Jesus preached love and compassion.”

She disliked the tone of the speeches.

“All I have heard so far is dissing down,” Murphy said toward the close of the event. “They don’t offer to help people with the sin of homosexuality, it’s just negative, negative, negative. You are supposed to help the sinner, not put them down. That’s what Jesus would do.”