Roy Moore Wins GOP Senate Nomination: His Long History Of Fighting ‘False Religion,’ ‘Criminal Lifestyle’ & Pre-K ‘Indoctrination’ | Right Wing Watch
Way to stay relevant GOP.
Hint: When a judge is removed from the bench...TWICE... it's not because he's really smart and doing a good job.
Way to stay relevant GOP.
Hint: When a judge is removed from the bench...TWICE... it's not because he's really smart and doing a good job.
Yesterday, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore won a Republican primary runoff election to win the party’s nomination to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the U.S. Senate. Moore was buoyed by the support of prominent backers of President Donald Trump (if not Trump himself) and by the extreme Religious Right figures who have supported him throughout his career.
Moore, who has twice lost his seat on the Alabama supreme court for defying the federal judiciary, has a decades-long history of extremism. We’ve gone back in the archives to compile a few lowlights:
God’s Judgment on America
CNN reported recently on a February speech in which Moore suggested that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were God’s judgment on America for having “distanced ourselves” from God, including efforts to “legitimize sodomy” and “legitimize abortion.”
Moore has long warned that God is judging America. In a 2012 speech, Moore said that Satan was behind marriage equality and legal abortion, which is why God “has a controversy with the inhabitants of this land, and until we reject those evils, we shall suffer accordingly”: