The GOP Senate ndidate’s flack fumbled for answers on some of Moore’s past extremist claims: that beg gay should be illegal; and that Mlims n’t serve elected office.
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ROY MOORE SPOKMAN TO CNN: HE ‘PROBABLY’ THKS BEG GAY SHOULD BE ILLEGALSAYING THE QUIET PART LOUDTHE GOP SENATE NDIDATE’S FLACK FUMBLED FOR ANSWERS ON SOME OF MOORE’S PAST EXTREMIST CLAIMS: THAT BEG GAY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL; AND THAT MLIMS N’T SERVE ELECTED OFFICE.GION RNICKPOLIL REPORTERUPDATED DEC. 12, 2017 5:35PM EST / PUBLISHED DEC. 12, 2017 5:31PM EST CNN/SCREENSHOTHOURS BEFORE THE POLLS CLOSED ALABAMA’S SPECIAL ELECTN RACE TUDAY, A SPOKPERSON FOR ROY MOORE ASSERTED THAT THE REPUBLIN NOMEE “PROBABLY” THKS HOMOSEXUALY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. “HOMOSEXUALY IS A S THE BIBLIL SENSE,” TED CROCKETT TOLD CNN’S JAKE TAPPER A BONKERS TERVIEW. ALTHOUGH HE ULD NOT PROVI A FIVE ANSWER ON MOORE’S STANCE, THE NDIDATE HIMSELF SAID 2005, WHILE CHIEF JTICE OF THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT, THAT “HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.”BASED ON THAT 12-YEAR-OLD CLIP, TAPPER REPEATEDLY PRSED CROCKETT: “HERE IS MY QUTN FOR YOU, SIR, DO HE THK THAT HOMOSEXUAL NDUCT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL? IT’S A Y OR NO QUTN.”“PROBABLY,” THE SPOKMAN RPOND. MOORE MPAIGN STRATEGIST DEAN YOUNG APPEARED ON MSNBC JT MOMENTS AFTER CROCKETT’S CNN TERVIEW. WHEN ASKED WHETHER MOORE BELIEV HOMOSEXUALY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL, YOUNG SAID: “NO, BUT HE DISAGRE WH .”TAPPER WENT ON TO ASK WHAT THE PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE FOR A PERSON ENGAGG A HOMOSEXUAL RELATNSHIP AND CROCKETT SIMPLY RPOND: “IT’S A S, OK? THAT’S WHAT IS.”CROCKETT ALSO RPOND WH SILENCE LATER THE TERVIEW WHEN HE WAS RMED THAT A PERSON DO NOT NEED TO SWEAR ON A CHRISTIAN BIBLE ORR TO BE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL. (MOORE HAS SAID THAT MLIMS NNOT SERVE CONGRS BEE THEY WOULD SWEAR ON THE QURAN RATHER THAN THE BIBLE.) MONDAY EVENG AT MOORE’S FAL MPAIGN EVENT BEFORE THE ELECTN, HIS DISCRIMATORY VIEWS ON LGBT MATTERS LED TO AN EMOTNAL PLEA OM 74-YEAR-OLD NATHAN MATHIS. THE FORMER UNTY MISSNER AND STATE REPRENTATIVE ALABAMA SHOWED UP TO THE EVENT WH A PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS LATE DGHTER, A LBIAN, WHO HE SAID TOOK HER OWN LIFE AT THE AGE OF 23. “I SAID BAD THGS TO MY DGHTER MYSELF, WHICH I REGRET,” HE EMOTNALLY TOLD REPORTERS. “BUT I N’T TAKE BACK WHAT HAPPENED TO MY DGHTER. STUFF LIKE SAYG MY DGHTER WAS A PERVERT, I’M SURE THAT BOTHERED HER.”“ROY MOORE LLED MY DGHTER A PERVERT... WE DON’T NEED A PERSON LIKE THAT REPRENTG WASHGTON,” MATHIS SAID OF THE REPUBLIN NDIDATE. “THAT’S WHY I’M HERE.” GION RNICK
A few days apart late July 2017, two then–BU sophomor posted some personal ntent to their social media feeds. COM sophomore Arl Moore beme a big h at BU wh his credible footage of mp and sights om his trip to Israel over this past wter break. Roy Moore “probably” still thks homosexualy should be illegal, the Republin Alabama Senate ndidate’s mpaign spokman said Tuday.
“Homosexualy is a s the biblil sense, that is where Roy Moore is the state of Alabama, ” Ted Crockett told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
When Tapper prsed aga if Moore thought homosexualy should be illegal, Crockett nced he “probably” did. When asked a 2005 C-SPAN2 terview wh Bill Prs, Moore said that “homosexual nduct should be illegal.