Richdude wrote on Nov 4
th, 2017 at 12:53am:
AiA wrote on Nov 3
rd, 2017 at 11:44pm:
When residents of Alabama travel and they are asked where they are from, they hesitate to reply (unless they are talking about college football) and for good reason: KKK, firehoses and dogs, domestic terrorists blowing up black churches and killing little girls, lynchings, the list goes on ...
And now a man who is the embodiment of all that Alabamians are ashamed of might be elected to the US Senate - Roy Moore.
You think Alabamians should be ashamed of someone who believes in God, has a conscious, is honest and courageous?
Moore's career is riddled with details indicating that the man is, objectively speaking, a despicable lunatic: At various points, he has opined that Minnesota representative Keith Ellison is
unfit to serve in Congress because of his Muslim faith; that kneeling during the national anthem
is illegal; and that homosexual conduct
should be illegal. Oh, he also
supports the removal of his own party's Senate Majority Leader as soon as it becomes practicable.
This man as state Supreme Court justice was removed from office twice for failing to comply with various court orders—not a good look for a judge.
Moore refused to talk to a Washington Post reporter, citing their employer's endorsement of his opponent, Doug Jones, while simultaneously demonstrating a remarkably shoddy grasp of how reporting works.
"Y’all endorsed my opponent already, so, you know, that’s a hard position to be in,” Moore said. “But all these newspaper reporters, I wish y’all would print me as I am, and not as otherpeople say I am. That’s the only thing."Yes, how dare a newspaper print an
editorial in which it expresses an opinion about Roy Moore's fitness for office based on things he has said and done? Don't they know it's rude to point out that an unrepentant bigot with no respect for the law is, in fact, an unrepentant bigot with no respect for the law?
The exchange continues:
“Okay. How are you? Who are you?” a reporter asked.
“Well, I’m a lot different than how the Washington Post is portraying me, that’s for sure,” Moore said. “I don’t hate people. I’m a Christian. I don’t hate people.”
No, Roy Moore does not hate people. He just has repeatedly demonstrated a sincerely-held belief that certain types of minority groups are entitled under the law to fewer rights than other, non-minority groups. What's so wrong about that?! Eventually, Moore allowed that he no longer believes that there should be a religious test to hold public office, indicating that he at least possesses the ability to grasp basic concepts of American constitutional law, even if the results haven't always been there.
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