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National embarrassment Roy Moore still has lots of
deluded defenders who think nothing is worse than a Democrat |
It's time for you to vote for your U.S. Senate candidate. You have the choice between two guys. Here they are:
1. This one, a former prosecutor, in the past won the conviction of KKK members who bombed a church and killed four young girls.
2. The other one, in the past, molested a 14 year old girl.
You'd think the choice would be obvious, but that's not how the world works anymore, apparently. I had thought there was nothing the extreme right wing of the Republic Party could do that would shock me anymore.
Yet once again, I was proven wrong. In Alabama, it appears the molester has an excellent chance of winning the election, not the former prosecutor. That's because pedophilia can be ignored if the molesting candidate hates gays, liberals and wants to turn Christianity into a mandatory nationwide religion.
To backtrack: You might have heard about the
Washington Post bombshell about ultra-conservative Roy Moore, who is seeking the Alabama U.S. Senate seat vacated when Jeff Sessions left the Senate to become U.S. Attorney General.
Apparently, decades ago, Moore sexually molested a 14 year old girl, who went on the record with the story for the Washington Post this week.
While many people, including quite a few GOPers,
condemned Moore for this behavior, there are a number of his defenders who made the wildest excuses for Moore. These excuses are just scary.
Yeah, a little hypocrisy at work here, no? And while we gawk and mock this Republican hypocricy, this whole Moore thing totally sets in place Alabama's reputation as a weird, scary place, at least in the political and "religious" side of things. People are suffering because of the likes of Moore.
Moore has famously said that being
gay is such an abomination that gay people should be in jail. But apparently, sexual contact between consenting adults is a high crime if the people involved are of the same gender, but sexual contact between non-consenting people, even when one of them is not an adult is A-OK.
The contortions Moore's supporters are going through to boost Moore are beyond belief.
This being Alabama, the state's auditor, Jim Ziegler, justified Moore's behavior this way: "
Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus."
Oh, really? I thought it was the
Virgin Mary, and Joseph didn't boink Mary, no matter what her age was. But logic doesn't matter when you want to elect a bigot.
The Cullman, Alabama Times reports that one state representative actually said Moore's accusers should be prosecuted. For what, I don't know.
And check out this tweet by some loser named Carroll Bryant:
"I'd rather have a pedophile in office rather than a democrat any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Pedophiles only screw kids while democrats screw everyone."
Cute, huh?
Obviously not every Republican and not everyone conservative is on Moore's side. However, the true believers are.
Mother Jones points out how Moore, again, does his biblical imagery to keep his evangelical base.
Because apparently, some true believers are so easy to snow over.
Check out Moore's successful fundraising email that went out right after the latest scandal came to light last week. His missive read in part:
"We are in the midst of a spiritual battle with those who want to silence our message. The forces of evil will lie, cheat, steal - even inflict physical harm - if they believe it will silence and shut up Christian conservatives like you and me....
That's why I ust be able to count on the help of God-fearing conservatives like you to stand with me at this critical moment."
Got that? Anyone who doesn't buy my holier than thou bullshit is the devil, is the clear message here.
It's not that others aren't trying to shake so called Alabama "evangelicals" awake.
Here's part of an
editorial from the Alabama Political Reporter:
"What's it going to take before you realize that your family values, my-sin-is-better-than-yours-sin, conservative voting approach has produced a state government filled with lying cheating, sexually assaulting, money-grubbing criminals who have embarrassed us countless times, and on top of everything, mismanaged the hell out of this place?
"........Take a look around you. We're terrible as a state. We're near the bottom in public education, medical care, infrastructure, economy and upward mobility and at the top in infant mortality, poverty, obesity and political corruption.
This is what the Roy Moore Republican Party has brought Alabama. A government built on greed and hatefulness, on shunning anything different and thumbing our nose at any hint of progress."
In the
National Review, writer and attorney David French suggests that evangelicals are actually showing no faith in their own faith with this situation.
French writes:
"I keep hearing these words from evangelicals; We've got no choice. The Democrats are after our liberties. They're seeking to destroy our way of life Some even go as far as to say that even if the allegations against Moore are true, they'll still hold their nose and put him in office to keep (Democrat) Jones from serving three years in the Senate.
I'm sorry, evangelicals, but your lack of faithy is far more dangerous to the Church than any senator, any president, or any justice of the Supreme Court. Do you really have so little trust in God that you believe it's justifiable - no, necessary - to ally with, defend, and even embrace corrupt men if you think it will save the Church?
Apparently the answer is yes. And it's proof that at least among some of the wacko right wing conservatives, their so called religious faith is completely hollow.
Which brings their "morality" down to the level of Moore and his ilk.
