Alabama’s answer to the question “What does hell on earth look like?” and Republican Senate hopeful Roy Moore has been having a tough day. Four women allege women that when Roy was in his 30s, he pursued very young women, one as young as 14 years old, which is underage by anobody’s standards. Well, according to the Washington Examiner, not everybody’s standards.
“There is nothing to see here,” Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler told the Washington Examiner. “The allegations are that a man in his early 30s dated teenage girls. Even the Washington Post report says that he never had sexual intercourse with any of the girls and never attempted sexual intercourse.”
This would be a salient point if it wasn’t both offensive and actually against the law for a 30-something year-old person to molest a 14-year-old person.
“He’s clean as a hound’s tooth,” Ziegler claimed, before relying on Scripture to defend Moore.
“Take the Bible. Zachariah and Elizabeth for instance. Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth and they became the parents of John the Baptist,” Ziegler said choosing his words carefully before invoking Christ. “Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.”
Yes. He went there. Here’s another one for Mr. Ziegler:
Genesis 11:29.
Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife was Milkah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milkah and Iskah.
Maybe Roy Moore should have married his niece and made it super biblical?