It was this time last year that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published its first profile of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, who is most famous for battling in the United States’ culture wars since 2001, in particular his fetish for placing monuments of the Ten Commandments in government buildings. That battle led to a series of unsuccessful lawsuits, and eventually was tossed off the bench in 2003 for staunchly refusing to honor a superior federal judge’s decision that the monument should be removed, as it violated the First Amendment rights of non-Christians. In 2012, for whatever reason, the people of Alabama returned him to the bench, where he’s resumed his mad push for making America a theocracy. Incidentally, Moore has gone on record before and stated his opinion that non-Christians like Hindus or Buddhists aren’t “real” religions, and don’t deserve 1st Amendment protections, and even has stated his belief that an unborn zygote should have more rights than they do. He founded a SuperPAC that funded a celebration of the anniversary of the day Alabama seceded from the union to join the Confederacy in 2010, claims Thomas Jefferson did not intend for the First Amendment to apply to non-Christians and that he was a fierce opponent of abortion, and has called for the impeachment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Judge Moore is also stubbornly anti-gay, and is not only opposed to gay marriage, but believes that gay couples who have adopted should have their children taken away from them.
The past year, Roy Moore has had to watch impotently as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Alabama’s ban on gay marriage, along with any other state’s last June, but that defeat in his crusade has seemingly only emboldened him to dig down deeper into his fanaticism:
- January 26th, 2015: Roy Moore sends a letter to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, asking him to ignore a federal judge’s ruling to lift Alabama’s gay marriage ban, saying that "the laws of our state have always recognized the Biblical admonition“ against homosexuality.
- January 30th, 2015: Moore again expressed his contempt for gays, and people for other faiths, saying that we let ”two men getting married in a chapel“ but only turn to God ”when we get in trouble, when they bombed the Twin Towers“, before adding that ”Buddha didn’t create us, Mohammed didn’t create us. They didn’t bring a Quran over on the Mayflower.“ He eventually would also remark that "abominations” of gay rights were putting America in direct confrontation with God.
- February 23rd, 2015: Roy Moore calls for the ban on gay marriage to be restored because it will lead to that slippery slope of polygamy:
You’re taking any definition of a family away. When two bisexuals or two transgendered marry, how large is that family? Can they marry two persons, one of the same sex and one of the opposite sex? Then, you’ve got a family of four or how many?”
- If you thought it wasn’t possible for Roy Moore to fearmonger even more over gay marriage being accepted, he spoke before an audience at a summit of the anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council, where he claimed the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex marriage would allow the government to come and take your children.
- March 24th, 2015: Speaking in Texas, Moore wonders out loud if he’ll have to “give his life” in his fight against gay marriage.
- April 3rd, 2015: A fundraising video appears where Roy Moore asks for donations for Michael Peroutka, a White Nationalist from the League of the South running for office in Maryland.
- April 24th, 2015: Roy Moore compares his battle against gay marriage to previous Supreme Court battles, including ones against segregation and slavery.
- May 26th, 2015: Moore again calls for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg over her ruling on gay marriage.
- July 7th, 2015: Roy Moore gives an interview where he continues railing against gay marriage, as relates to Christians, saying “persecution is just beginning” because Americans will be “forced to accept evil” and “condone sodomy“. He then expressed his concerns that this disagreement could lead to armed battle:
“I hope we don’t have a war, I hope we don’t have conflicts but we definitely need to recognize that same-sex marriage is something that has not existed on a government level.”
- As he went on to explain, accepting gay marriage is akin to ”following Nazi orders“.
- July 14th, 2015: Video emerges of Roy Moore from 2006, where he advises Christians to pull their children out of schools if they find out that evolution is taught there, as well as again casting doubt that Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, was not a true Congressman because he was sworn in with a Quran.
- September 15th, 2015: Moore reads the poem, ”First They Came for the Socialists…“ which decries how Hitler and the Nazis came for minority groups because no one would speak for them, before relating its message to… Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, who apparently was being exterminated like the Jews because she wouldn’t do her job and give out marriage licenses.
- September 16th, 2015: Roy Moore is interviewed by Phyllis Schafly’s Eagle Forum Live, where he has trouble differentiating what the difference is between his opposition to same sex marriage, and to interracial marriage, from decades earlier.
Now, Roy Moore still has YEARS left on his first term in his second chance as an Alabama Supreme Court Justice. The only question is, if he can manage to again be stripped of his office for putting his own personal beliefs above the orders of federal judges. Because he seems to spend far more energy doing that, than his actual job.