How would you define a party that has absolutely no sense of morality? You don’t have to. Tully Borland at The Federalist has already done it for you.
Here is one thing we know and should admit from the start: in his early thirties, Moore had a penchant for dating teenagers. Apparently, this was not an uncommon occurrence during this time. In fact, this practice has a long history and is not without some merit if one wants to raise a large family.
Don’t make a mistake here: Borland isn’t arguing that it’s okay for people to marry young. What he’s saying is that if you want to raise a Big Biblical family, it takes a man with some experience to plow those inviting teenage fields.
To have a large family, the wife must start having kids when she is young. The husband needs to be well-established and able to support the family, in which case he will typically need to marry when older.
Not that he would approve of Moore screwing his teenage daughter.
I have a 14-year-old daughter. If I caught Roy Moore doing what was alleged, for starters I would kick him where it counts. That said, I don’t think it’s wrong to vote for Moore.
But your teenage daughter? He’s okay with that.
Borland doesn’t stop with just giving Moore the all-clear on prowling the juniors section at the local J.C. Penney. He’s also got a healthy dose of “don’t believe the women” in this piece.
Both claims have been called into doubt. The yearbook Moore allegedly signed appears to have been doctored, and his accuser falsely claimed never to have seen Moore since even though he was the judge for her divorce. Given recently discovered court records, there is also reason to doubt Leigh Corfman’s story.
The claim that the yearbook was altered is entirely based on this decisive evidence: Roy Moore said so. And the claim about Corfman meeting Moore in court is worse: the court records show it never happened.
The Federalist isn’t—or isn’t supposed to be—some obscure mouthpiece of the fringe alt-Reich. This is as mainstream as mainstream gets in the Republican Party.
And where the mainstream of the Republican Party is now is that:
- It’s okay for a 30-something man in a position of power to hunt teenage girls at the mall.
- If one, or two, or more of those girls claims this older man tried to force them into something, don’t believe them.
And above all, it’s okay to vote for the Republicans. Because morals are what Republicans say they are, subject to change, at the moment. Plus, Borland—professor at a Baptist university Borland—says it’s okay to vote for anyone who will give you what you want. No matter what.
I think most candidates are bad. I’m almost always voting for an arm to write a signature or push a button. Thus there’s no shame in voting for someone with whom you disagree, no matter how significant the disagreement, as long as you do so for the right reasons.
You’re not voting for the guy who assaulted teenage girls in the back of the car. You’re just voting for the hand he used to hold them down while he abused them. And that makes it all good with God.
But don’t worry. This is all just a warm-up. When all the facts are out about Donald Trump, rest assured that Tully Borland, and Franklin Graham, and all the rest will be on hand to tell us just how very, very Biblical it all is.