Roy Moore beat out Luther Strange in the Republican primary runoff for Jeff Sessions’ U.S. Senate seat. He’ll face Democrat nominee Doug Jones, a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Klan members responsible for the 1963 murder of four black children in the bombing of a Birmingham church.
To say Roy Moore is an absolute extremist nutjob would be an understatement. Here are a few of the reasons why this man is entirely unfit to serve in the United States Senate. For starters, he blamed the Sandy Hook massacre, in which 20 children ages 6-7 years old and six adult staff members were gunned down by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, on the residents of Newtown for not following “God’s law.”
The fuller video of his comments to the First Baptist Church of Guin can be viewed here.
He also said the 9/11 terrorist attack, carried out by religious extremists, was because we've turned away from God. POT. KETTLE.
That’s only the beginning of the Roy Moore crazy trail. He is the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, where he was twice suspended from that job because he ordered state officials to ignore the federal law legalizing gay marriage and refused an order to remove the Ten Commandments from the state’s judicial building.
Moore’s foundation has loaned their building to pro-Confederate types for events to celebrate Alabama’s secession from the United States:
The events, held at the Foundation for Moral Law's building in 2009 and 2010, promoted a history of the Civil War sympathetic to the Confederate cause, in which the conflict is presented as one fought over the federal government violating the South's sovereignty as opposed to one fought chiefly over the preservation of slavery.
Speakers at the events included Franklin Sanders, who is a board member of the League of the South, an organization that advocates for a "free and independent Southern republic," and Rev. Chuck Baldwin, who has written that he believes "the South was right in the War Between the States" and that Confederate leaders were not racist. Most academic scholars
identify slavery as a central cause of the war.
Earlier this week, he pulled a pistol out of his pocket at a campaign rally, waving it around to prove he’s the most Second Amendment candidate in Alabama.
When Moore was asked if homosexuality should be punishable by death, he just couldn’t say.
In 2006, Moore said he did not think Rep. Keith Ellison, a Muslim, should be allowed to serve in Congress. He accused Rep. Ellison of associating with radical extremists and said that his allegiance was to the Koran, not the Constitution of the United States. Yes, the same man who ordered Alabama officials to disobey federal law because of his personal religious beliefs thinks Rep. Ellison is radical.
Democrat Doug Jones faces an uphill battle to win this seat and prevent Roy Moore from bringing his particular brand of religious extremism and bigotry to the United States Senate. You can learn more about Doug Jones here, including how you can help his campaign in Alabama.