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• ROY MOORE REVIV ANTI-GAY RHETORIC IN DEFLECTG SEXUAL ASSLT ALLEGATNS
• ROY MOORE SPEND FROM ALABAMA SUPREME COURT FOR ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE ORR
• ALABAMA JUDGE ROY MOORE SPEND OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE
• ANTI-GAY SUPPORTERS RALLY FOR ROY MOORE, WORRYG LGBTQ MUNY
• THIS ALABAMA DAD GAVE A GUT-WRENCHG CRIQUE OF ROY MOORE'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS
• ALABAMA CHIEF JTICE’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT MAY BE A REBELL BID FOR ERNOR
• ROY MOORE ISN’T JT ANTI-GAY, HE’S ANTI-DEMOCRACYSWEET HOME THEOCRACYTHE LIKELY NEXT SENATOR OM ALABAMA BELIEV GOD’S LAW TMPS AMERIN LAW.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED SEP. 27, 2017 1:07PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 27, 2017 12:01PM EDT OPNSTT OLSON/GETTYROY MOORE, THE TWICE-DISGRACED ALABAMA JUDGE WHO IS NOW THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S NDIDATE FOR SENATE, HAS BEEN PICTED THE MEDIA AS AN ANTI-GAY FIREBRAND. BUT THIS CHARACTERIZATN MISS THE POT AND UNRTIMAT THE DANGER MOORE REPRENTS.MOORE ISN’T SIMPLY A BIGOT; HE’S A THEOCRATIC SFFLAW WHO HAS REPEATEDLY PUT HIS FUNDAMENTALIST RELIG VIEWS ABOVE THE LE OF LAW, AND WHO HAS ED THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE TO FLOUT THE THORY OF JUDICIAL OPNS. HE IS MORE JOE ARPA THAN ANA BRYANT.OF URSE, MOORE IS NO IEND TO LGBT PEOPLE. IN A 2002 CTODY BATTLE, FOR EXAMPLE, HE LED THAT A PARENT’S SEXUALY SHOULD BE GROUNDS FOR TAKG AWAY THEIR CHILD BEE “HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR IS A GROUND FOR DIVORCE, AN ACT OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT PUNISHABLE AS A CRIME ALABAMA, A CRIME AGAST NATURE, AN HERENT EVIL, AND AN ACT SO HEO THAT FI ONE’S ABILY TO SCRIBE .” BUT OM A MOCRATIC PERSPECTIVE, HIS VIEWS ON THE LE OF LAW ARE FAR MORE TROUBLG. “ROY MOORE IS THE MOST TRANSPARENTLY THEOCRATIC POLICIAN NOW ON THE NATNAL STAGE,” SAID FRERICK CLARKSON, SENR FELLOW AT POLIL REARCH ASSOCIAT, A THK TANK THAT MONORS RIGHT-WG EXTREMISM. “HIS VIEW IS THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER BOTH CHURCH AND STATE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE TO RRY OUT HIS WILL.” MOORE FIRST GAED NOTORIETY THE 1990S, WHEN, AS A UNTY JUDGE, HE HUNG A WOON PLAQUE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BEHD HIS BENCH THE URTROOM AND OPENED EVERY SSN WH A PRAYER FOR DIVE GUIDANCE FOR JURORS. JT IMAGE HOW HOW ANYONE WH A DIFFERENT RELIG VIEW MIGHT EXPECT TO BE TREATED A SUPPOSEDLY SECULAR STATE URT PROCEEDG TURNED TO A RELIG TRIBUNAL. IN 1993, TWO MALE STRIPPERS ACCED OF MURRG A DG ALER OBJECTED TO THE DISPLAY AND THE PRAYER. QUE REASONABLY, THEY (OR THEIR LAWYERS) WONRED IF THEY’D REALLY GET A FAIR TRIAL SUCH A NTEXT, IF THE “DIVE GUIDANCE” THAT JUDGE MOORE WANTED JURORS TO TAKE MIGHT BIAS THEM AGAST TWO MALE STRIPPERS. MOORE ED THE NTROVERSY TO W REELECTN (SOUND FAIAR?), AND A FORHADOWG OF NTROVERSI TO E, OPENLY FIED A STATE URT ORR TO REMOVE THE DISPLAY.ONCE AGA, LOOK AT WHAT THIS MEANS: A JUDGE SIMPLY DISREGARDG A SENR JUDGE’S LG BEE HE BELIEV TO BE MORALLY WRONG. THIS IS NOT, AS MOORE’S BACKERS SAY, LIKE MART LUTHER KG, JR.’S “LETTER FROM A BIRMGHAM JAIL,” ARGUG FOR RISTANCE TO UNJT LAWS. THIS IS A MEMBER OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM SELF CIDG THAT HE IS ABOVE THE LAW. THIS IS THE UNRMG OF MOCRACY SELF, REPLACG WH A PERSONAL TYRANNY GROUND ONE MAN’S RELIG BELIEFS.MOREOVER, THE FACT THAT MOORE’S VIEW WAS OVERWHELMGLY POPULAR—A POLL AT THE TIME SHOWED MORE THAN 80 PERCENT OF ALABAMIANS AGREEG WH HIM—MAK THE OFFENSE WORSE, NOT BETTER. THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORY AGAST THE MORY IS THE WORST KD OF TYRANNY; IS WHAT BROUGHT JIM CROW, AND, Y, NAZI FASCISM. JT LIKE ARPA (AND, AT TIM, DONALD TMP), MOORE IS PREACHG MOB JTICE TO AN ANGRY MOB.IN 1999, MOORE RAN FOR STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE, STATG THAT “WE MT RETURN GOD TO OUR PUBLIC LIFE AND RTORE THE MORAL FOUNDATN OF OUR LAW” AND THAT THE CLE OF CHRISTIANY “RRPOND DIRECTLY WH SCHOOL VLENCE, HOMOSEXUALY, AND CRIME.” (ACTUALLY, OF THE 15 STAT WH THE HIGHT CRIME RAT, 10 ARE “RED STAT.” ALABAMA RANKS 12TH.) MOORE WON—AS THIS YEAR, THE FACE OF MASTREAM REPUBLIN OPPOSN. IMMEDIATELY UPON HIS ELECTN, MOORE UPPED THE THEOCRATIC ANTE, STALLG “ROY’S ROCK”—A TWO-TON GRANE MONUMENT OF HIS OWN SIGN, WH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE TOP AND SELECTIVE QUOTATNS OM THE FOUNRS ON S FOUR SIS— THE ROTUNDA OF THE STATE JUDICIAL BUILDG. WHEN WAS STALLED, MOORE SAID “ ORR TO TABLISH JTICE, WE MT VOKE THE FAVOR AND GUIDANCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD” AND THAT “TO RTORE MORALY, WE MT FIRST REGNIZE THE SOURCE OF THAT MORALY.” IN OTHER WORDS, CLARKSON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “WHEN MOORE HAD A MONUMENT TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS STALLED THE STATE URTHOE, WAS BEE HE BELIEV THAT THE UNED STAT WAS FOUND AS A CHRISTIAN NATN, AND THAT GOD’S LAWS ARE THAT FOUNDATN. HE WANTED THE STATE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. AND HE HAS VOTED HIS REER TO ADVANCG THAT VISN.”NOT SURPRISGLY, THIS DISPLAY WAS FOUND UNNSTUTNAL BY A FERAL APPEALS URT 2003. AS BEFORE, MOORE FLATLY REFED TO OBEY THE URT’S ORR TO REMOVE .ONCE AGA, TO FOC ON MOORE’S “SOCIAL NSERVATISM” IS PERHAPS TO MISS THE POT. IN TERMS OF MOCRACY, DON’T MATTER WHETHER MOORE IS A FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN, A SECULAR ATHEIST, OR A PAGAN. A FERAL URT HAS LED SOMETHG UNNSTUTNAL, AND ORRED REMOVED. MOORE, A STATE URT JUDGE HIMSELF, HAS SIMPLY REFED TO OBEY THE LAW. OF URSE, DO MATTER THAT RALLI SUPPORT OF ROY’S ROCK FEATURED AN ARRAY OF CHRISTIAN RIGHT POWER-BROKERS. THAT’S WHAT DISTGUISH MOORE’S DANGERO THEOCRATIC TYRANNY OM THE HARMLS DISSENT OF, SAY, THE SATANIC TEMPLE OF INDIANA’S CHURCH OF POT. MOORE HAS THE POWER OF THE STATE, IF NOT THE FORCE OF LAW, BEHD HIM.BUT MOORE’S GREATT DANGER TO THE REPUBLIC IS NOT THAT HE IS A CHRISTIAN. IT IS THAT AS AN OFFICER OF THE STATE, HE HAS PLACED HIMSELF, AND HIS PERSONAL TERPRETATN OF GOD’S WILL, ABOVE THE LAW OF THE UNED STAT. MOORE IS NOT A NSERVATIVE ANY SENSE OF THE WORD. HE IS A MAGOGIC RADIL WHO, HIS OWN WORDS, HAS SOUGHT TO ELEVATE GOD’S LAW—AGA, ROY MOORE’S TERPRETATN OF —ABOVE HUMAN LAW. ROY’S ROCK WAS FALLY REMOVED WHEN THE OTHER EIGHT JTIC OF THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT VOTED AGAST HIM, AND MOORE HIMSELF WAS REMOVED OFFICE SHORTLY THEREAFTER, WHEN THE ALABAMA COURT OF THE JUDICIARY FOUND HIM TO BE VLATN OF THE ALABAMA NONS OF JUDICIAL ETHICS—A CISN AFFIRMED BY THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT 2004.BUT MOORE MA A EBACK, WNG BACK HIS SEAT ON THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT 2012—ONCE AGA, OVER MASTREAM REPUBLIN OPPOSN AND NNG ON A POPULIST, FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN PLATFORM. AND THE WAKE OF THE SUPREME COURT’S 2015 CISN ON MARRIAGE EQUALY, MOORE TOOK HIS MOST DAC ACTNS YET AGAST THE SECULAR LE OF LAW.IN JANUARY 2016, MOORE ISSUED AN ORR THAT PROHIBED ALABAMA PROBATE JUDG (WHO SERVE UNR HIS THORY AS CHIEF JTICE) OM ISSUG MARRIAGE LICENS TO SAME-SEX UPL. THIS PUT THE STATE’S 66 PROBATE JUDG AN IMPOSSIBLE BD: BETWEEN DISOBEYG THE CONSTUTN AND DISOBEYG THEIR BOSS.IT ALSO, OF URSE, ME THE NTEXT OF THREE S OF MOORE’S EXTREME ANTI-GAY RHETORIC, CLUDG BLATANTLY UHIL STATEMENTS ON PENDG URT S, AND WAS RIGHTLY SEEN AS A “STAND THE URTHOE DOOR” JT LIKE GEE WALLACE’S 1963 STAND THE SCHOOLHOE DOOR TO FEND SEGREGATN AGAST A FERAL URT ORR. LIKE WALLACE, MOORE VOKED STAT’ RIGHTS. LIKE WALLACE, HE BALDLY FIED A CLEAR ORR OF THE SUPREME COURT. AND LIKE WALLACE, HE DID SO TO FEND A NSERVATIVE VIEW ON CIVIL RIGHTS THAT HAD BEEN ST ASI BY THE AMERIN MOCRATIC SYSTEM.MOORE WAS REMOVED OM OFFICE A SEND TIME ON SEPT. 30, 2016, A 50-PAGE ORR BY THE COURT OF THE JUDICIARY FDG HIM GUILTY OF SIX MAJOR VLATNS OF JUDICIAL ETHICS L. DURG THE APPEALS PROCS, MOORE RIGNED OM HIS SEAT AND BEGAN HIS MPAIGN FOR THE SENATE. IF MOORE WS THIS ELECTN, WILL BE BEE OF HIS ANTI-MOCRATIC POPULISM, NOT SPE . PERHAPS ENOUGH REPUBLINS WILL STAND UP FOR ACTUAL NSERVATIVE PRCIPL AND VOTE FOR MOORE’S DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, BUT WH THE SENATE SELF HANGG THE BALANCE, THAT SEEMS UNLIKELY. MEANWHILE, IS PRECISELY BEE MOORE FI AMERIN MOCRATIC NORMS THAT HE IS SO POPULAR AMONG A CERTA SUBSET OF ALABAMIANS—AND PRECISELY BEE HE IS SO POPULAR THAT HE IS SO DANGERO. MOORE ISN’T SOME TALK-RAD HOST, OR A GE PREACHER WH A STOREONT CHURCH. HE HAS FLNTED THE LE OF LAW AS A STATE SUPREME URT JTICE, WH ALL THE POWER AT HIS DISPOSAL, AND WILL SOON LIKELY DO SO AS A UNED STAT SENATOR. JAY MICHAELSON

ROY MOORE REVIV ANTI-GAY RHETORIC IN DEFLECTG SEXUAL ASSLT ALLEGATNS

Roy Moore, the embattled Republin Senate ndidate Alabama, on Wednday revived the anti-gay rhetoric that first thst him to the spotlight years ago by accg LGBT people and others of ordatg a “nspiracy” to discred him and unrme his mpaign. “They are the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr...

ROY MOORE SPEND FROM ALABAMA SUPREME COURT FOR ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE ORR

”Moore, who oppos transgenr rights and has said repeatedly that “homosexual nduct” should be illegal, add that he believ people angered by his prosecutn of dg s as a district attorney are at “the heart of this nspiracy” agast him. Senate ndidate 2005: Outlaw gay 'nduct'. "Homosexual nduct should be illegal, y, " Moore said a 2005 terview.

Later the terview, Moore pared gay sex to btialy.

Roy Moore, a Republin US Senate ndidate Alabama, said a 2005 terview that he believ “homosexual nduct” should be illegal.

ALABAMA JUDGE ROY MOORE SPEND OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE

Durg the terview Prs asked Moore if he believed homosexual nduct should still be illegal after the 2003 landmark Supreme Court cisn Lawrence v. Do you thk that homosexual–homosexualy, or homosexual nduct should be illegal today? “Homosexual nduct should be illegal, y, ” Moore answered.

While Moore has long said he opposed the Supreme Court’s 2003 cisn, his rponse to Prs’s qutn is the most explic answer he has given public on his beliefs regardg the legaly of sexual nduct between gay adults. In the vio, Moore was asked, “Do you still thk that homosexualy should be illegal? “I thk homosexualy should be illegal, ” Moore said.

“Sodomy was clared illegal by the Uned Stat Supreme Court 1987, said there was no right unr the nstutn to enlarge the fundamental rights of homosexuals.

ANTI-GAY SUPPORTERS RALLY FOR ROY MOORE, WORRYG LGBTQ MUNY

Last September he was spend om Alabama’s Supreme Court for failg to ply wh the Feral Supreme Court’s lg that legalized gay marriage natnwi. In 2014, Moore wrote letters to all 50 state ernors llg on them to nvene a nstutnal nventn to ban gay marriage. CNN has also reported that Moore repeatedly appeared on a rad show hosted by a pastor who preach the ath penalty for homosexualy.

THIS ALABAMA DAD GAVE A GUT-WRENCHG CRIQUE OF ROY MOORE'S ANTI-GAY VIEWS

Later the terview, when Prs asked why the ernment should ban what nsentg adults do the privacy of their own hom, Moore pared gay sex to btialy. You mean homosexualy is same thg as btialy?

Related: Alabama Chief Jtice Roy Moore Fac Oter After Gay Marriage FightNearly a year later, January 2016, Moore aga directed probate judg to fy a feral urt lg — this time, the U.

Related: Alabama Supreme Court Ref Challenge to Gay MarriageFollowg an ial spensn wh pay, Moore was tried before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary Wednday on six charg of alleged ethics vlatns. LGBTQ advot are hailg the surprise rult of the special Senate electn Alabama, where Democrat Doug Jon feated Republin Roy Moore, a nservative firebrand who has said homosexualy should be illegal. Moore wrote that lbian and gay parents were ''prumptively unf to have ctody of mor children unr the tablished laws of this state.

ALABAMA CHIEF JTICE’S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT MAY BE A REBELL BID FOR ERNOR

''In a 2005 C-Span terview wh Bill Prs, Moore said "homosexual nduct should be illegal” and admonished the Supreme Court for s lg Lawrence v. He fac possible oter over his attempts to block gay marriage followg the US supreme urt lg that effectively legalized same-sex marriage is faiar terrory for the Republin, a Christian nservative who was removed om the same posn 2003 over a Ten Commandments monument, then easily won re-electn Republins tried to remove Governor Robert Bentley by impeachment the jt-end legislative ssn, over a sexually charged sndal volvg a top polil ai. As durg a news nference last week, Moore cricized the AJIC by referrg to a recent prott outsi his office that clud gay and transgenr people.

“The JIC has chosen to listen to people like … a profsed transvte and other gay, lbian and bisexual dividuals, as well as anizatns which support their agenda, ” Moore said. No, let’s not fet Roy Moore’s repeated and firm sistence that lns of Amerins, cludg myself, belong prison simply for beg gay.

He ma this pla when he told CSPAN’s Bill Prs that “homosexual nduct” is equivalent to btialy, and should be crimalized. Or perhaps I uld tell him that my “gay agenda” is to get my lndry done, and my morng “homosexual nduct” is drkg ffee and rpondg to emails.

ROY MOORE ISN’T JT ANTI-GAY, HE’S ANTI-DEMOCRACYSWEET HOME THEOCRACYTHE LIKELY NEXT SENATOR OM ALABAMA BELIEV GOD’S LAW TMPS AMERIN LAW.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED SEP. 27, 2017 1:07PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 27, 2017 12:01PM EDT OPNSTT OLSON/GETTYROY MOORE, THE TWICE-DISGRACED ALABAMA JUDGE WHO IS NOW THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S NDIDATE FOR SENATE, HAS BEEN PICTED THE MEDIA AS AN ANTI-GAY FIREBRAND. BUT THIS CHARACTERIZATN MISS THE POT AND UNRTIMAT THE DANGER MOORE REPRENTS.MOORE ISN’T SIMPLY A BIGOT; HE’S A THEOCRATIC SFFLAW WHO HAS REPEATEDLY PUT HIS FUNDAMENTALIST RELIG VIEWS ABOVE THE LE OF LAW, AND WHO HAS ED THE POWER OF HIS OFFICE TO FLOUT THE THORY OF JUDICIAL OPNS. HE IS MORE JOE ARPA THAN ANA BRYANT.OF URSE, MOORE IS NO IEND TO LGBT PEOPLE. IN A 2002 CTODY BATTLE, FOR EXAMPLE, HE LED THAT A PARENT’S SEXUALY SHOULD BE GROUNDS FOR TAKG AWAY THEIR CHILD BEE “HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR IS A GROUND FOR DIVORCE, AN ACT OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT PUNISHABLE AS A CRIME ALABAMA, A CRIME AGAST NATURE, AN HERENT EVIL, AND AN ACT SO HEO THAT FI ONE’S ABILY TO SCRIBE .” BUT OM A MOCRATIC PERSPECTIVE, HIS VIEWS ON THE LE OF LAW ARE FAR MORE TROUBLG. “ROY MOORE IS THE MOST TRANSPARENTLY THEOCRATIC POLICIAN NOW ON THE NATNAL STAGE,” SAID FRERICK CLARKSON, SENR FELLOW AT POLIL REARCH ASSOCIAT, A THK TANK THAT MONORS RIGHT-WG EXTREMISM. “HIS VIEW IS THAT GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER BOTH CHURCH AND STATE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE TO RRY OUT HIS WILL.” MOORE FIRST GAED NOTORIETY THE 1990S, WHEN, AS A UNTY JUDGE, HE HUNG A WOON PLAQUE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BEHD HIS BENCH THE URTROOM AND OPENED EVERY SSN WH A PRAYER FOR DIVE GUIDANCE FOR JURORS. JT IMAGE HOW HOW ANYONE WH A DIFFERENT RELIG VIEW MIGHT EXPECT TO BE TREATED A SUPPOSEDLY SECULAR STATE URT PROCEEDG TURNED TO A RELIG TRIBUNAL. IN 1993, TWO MALE STRIPPERS ACCED OF MURRG A DG ALER OBJECTED TO THE DISPLAY AND THE PRAYER. QUE REASONABLY, THEY (OR THEIR LAWYERS) WONRED IF THEY’D REALLY GET A FAIR TRIAL SUCH A NTEXT, IF THE “DIVE GUIDANCE” THAT JUDGE MOORE WANTED JURORS TO TAKE MIGHT BIAS THEM AGAST TWO MALE STRIPPERS. MOORE ED THE NTROVERSY TO W REELECTN (SOUND FAIAR?), AND A FORHADOWG OF NTROVERSI TO E, OPENLY FIED A STATE URT ORR TO REMOVE THE DISPLAY.ONCE AGA, LOOK AT WHAT THIS MEANS: A JUDGE SIMPLY DISREGARDG A SENR JUDGE’S LG BEE HE BELIEV TO BE MORALLY WRONG. THIS IS NOT, AS MOORE’S BACKERS SAY, LIKE MART LUTHER KG, JR.’S “LETTER FROM A BIRMGHAM JAIL,” ARGUG FOR RISTANCE TO UNJT LAWS. THIS IS A MEMBER OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM SELF CIDG THAT HE IS ABOVE THE LAW. THIS IS THE UNRMG OF MOCRACY SELF, REPLACG WH A PERSONAL TYRANNY GROUND ONE MAN’S RELIG BELIEFS.MOREOVER, THE FACT THAT MOORE’S VIEW WAS OVERWHELMGLY POPULAR—A POLL AT THE TIME SHOWED MORE THAN 80 PERCENT OF ALABAMIANS AGREEG WH HIM—MAK THE OFFENSE WORSE, NOT BETTER. THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORY AGAST THE MORY IS THE WORST KD OF TYRANNY; IS WHAT BROUGHT JIM CROW, AND, Y, NAZI FASCISM. JT LIKE ARPA (AND, AT TIM, DONALD TMP), MOORE IS PREACHG MOB JTICE TO AN ANGRY MOB.IN 1999, MOORE RAN FOR STATE SUPREME COURT JUDGE, STATG THAT “WE MT RETURN GOD TO OUR PUBLIC LIFE AND RTORE THE MORAL FOUNDATN OF OUR LAW” AND THAT THE CLE OF CHRISTIANY “RRPOND DIRECTLY WH SCHOOL VLENCE, HOMOSEXUALY, AND CRIME.” (ACTUALLY, OF THE 15 STAT WH THE HIGHT CRIME RAT, 10 ARE “RED STAT.” ALABAMA RANKS 12TH.) MOORE WON—AS THIS YEAR, THE FACE OF MASTREAM REPUBLIN OPPOSN. IMMEDIATELY UPON HIS ELECTN, MOORE UPPED THE THEOCRATIC ANTE, STALLG “ROY’S ROCK”—A TWO-TON GRANE MONUMENT OF HIS OWN SIGN, WH THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON THE TOP AND SELECTIVE QUOTATNS OM THE FOUNRS ON S FOUR SIS— THE ROTUNDA OF THE STATE JUDICIAL BUILDG. WHEN WAS STALLED, MOORE SAID “ ORR TO TABLISH JTICE, WE MT VOKE THE FAVOR AND GUIDANCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD” AND THAT “TO RTORE MORALY, WE MT FIRST REGNIZE THE SOURCE OF THAT MORALY.” IN OTHER WORDS, CLARKSON TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “WHEN MOORE HAD A MONUMENT TO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS STALLED THE STATE URTHOE, WAS BEE HE BELIEV THAT THE UNED STAT WAS FOUND AS A CHRISTIAN NATN, AND THAT GOD’S LAWS ARE THAT FOUNDATN. HE WANTED THE STATE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. AND HE HAS VOTED HIS REER TO ADVANCG THAT VISN.”NOT SURPRISGLY, THIS DISPLAY WAS FOUND UNNSTUTNAL BY A FERAL APPEALS URT 2003. AS BEFORE, MOORE FLATLY REFED TO OBEY THE URT’S ORR TO REMOVE .ONCE AGA, TO FOC ON MOORE’S “SOCIAL NSERVATISM” IS PERHAPS TO MISS THE POT. IN TERMS OF MOCRACY, DON’T MATTER WHETHER MOORE IS A FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN, A SECULAR ATHEIST, OR A PAGAN. A FERAL URT HAS LED SOMETHG UNNSTUTNAL, AND ORRED REMOVED. MOORE, A STATE URT JUDGE HIMSELF, HAS SIMPLY REFED TO OBEY THE LAW. OF URSE, DO MATTER THAT RALLI SUPPORT OF ROY’S ROCK FEATURED AN ARRAY OF CHRISTIAN RIGHT POWER-BROKERS. THAT’S WHAT DISTGUISH MOORE’S DANGERO THEOCRATIC TYRANNY OM THE HARMLS DISSENT OF, SAY, THE SATANIC TEMPLE OF INDIANA’S CHURCH OF POT. MOORE HAS THE POWER OF THE STATE, IF NOT THE FORCE OF LAW, BEHD HIM.BUT MOORE’S GREATT DANGER TO THE REPUBLIC IS NOT THAT HE IS A CHRISTIAN. IT IS THAT AS AN OFFICER OF THE STATE, HE HAS PLACED HIMSELF, AND HIS PERSONAL TERPRETATN OF GOD’S WILL, ABOVE THE LAW OF THE UNED STAT. MOORE IS NOT A NSERVATIVE ANY SENSE OF THE WORD. HE IS A MAGOGIC RADIL WHO, HIS OWN WORDS, HAS SOUGHT TO ELEVATE GOD’S LAW—AGA, ROY MOORE’S TERPRETATN OF —ABOVE HUMAN LAW. ROY’S ROCK WAS FALLY REMOVED WHEN THE OTHER EIGHT JTIC OF THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT VOTED AGAST HIM, AND MOORE HIMSELF WAS REMOVED OFFICE SHORTLY THEREAFTER, WHEN THE ALABAMA COURT OF THE JUDICIARY FOUND HIM TO BE VLATN OF THE ALABAMA NONS OF JUDICIAL ETHICS—A CISN AFFIRMED BY THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT 2004.BUT MOORE MA A EBACK, WNG BACK HIS SEAT ON THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT 2012—ONCE AGA, OVER MASTREAM REPUBLIN OPPOSN AND NNG ON A POPULIST, FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN PLATFORM. AND THE WAKE OF THE SUPREME COURT’S 2015 CISN ON MARRIAGE EQUALY, MOORE TOOK HIS MOST DAC ACTNS YET AGAST THE SECULAR LE OF LAW.IN JANUARY 2016, MOORE ISSUED AN ORR THAT PROHIBED ALABAMA PROBATE JUDG (WHO SERVE UNR HIS THORY AS CHIEF JTICE) OM ISSUG MARRIAGE LICENS TO SAME-SEX UPL. THIS PUT THE STATE’S 66 PROBATE JUDG AN IMPOSSIBLE BD: BETWEEN DISOBEYG THE CONSTUTN AND DISOBEYG THEIR BOSS.IT ALSO, OF URSE, ME THE NTEXT OF THREE S OF MOORE’S EXTREME ANTI-GAY RHETORIC, CLUDG BLATANTLY UHIL STATEMENTS ON PENDG URT S, AND WAS RIGHTLY SEEN AS A “STAND THE URTHOE DOOR” JT LIKE GEE WALLACE’S 1963 STAND THE SCHOOLHOE DOOR TO FEND SEGREGATN AGAST A FERAL URT ORR. LIKE WALLACE, MOORE VOKED STAT’ RIGHTS. LIKE WALLACE, HE BALDLY FIED A CLEAR ORR OF THE SUPREME COURT. AND LIKE WALLACE, HE DID SO TO FEND A NSERVATIVE VIEW ON CIVIL RIGHTS THAT HAD BEEN ST ASI BY THE AMERIN MOCRATIC SYSTEM.MOORE WAS REMOVED OM OFFICE A SEND TIME ON SEPT. 30, 2016, A 50-PAGE ORR BY THE COURT OF THE JUDICIARY FDG HIM GUILTY OF SIX MAJOR VLATNS OF JUDICIAL ETHICS L. DURG THE APPEALS PROCS, MOORE RIGNED OM HIS SEAT AND BEGAN HIS MPAIGN FOR THE SENATE. IF MOORE WS THIS ELECTN, WILL BE BEE OF HIS ANTI-MOCRATIC POPULISM, NOT SPE . PERHAPS ENOUGH REPUBLINS WILL STAND UP FOR ACTUAL NSERVATIVE PRCIPL AND VOTE FOR MOORE’S DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT, BUT WH THE SENATE SELF HANGG THE BALANCE, THAT SEEMS UNLIKELY. MEANWHILE, IS PRECISELY BEE MOORE FI AMERIN MOCRATIC NORMS THAT HE IS SO POPULAR AMONG A CERTA SUBSET OF ALABAMIANS—AND PRECISELY BEE HE IS SO POPULAR THAT HE IS SO DANGERO. MOORE ISN’T SOME TALK-RAD HOST, OR A GE PREACHER WH A STOREONT CHURCH. HE HAS FLNTED THE LE OF LAW AS A STATE SUPREME URT JTICE, WH ALL THE POWER AT HIS DISPOSAL, AND WILL SOON LIKELY DO SO AS A UNED STAT SENATOR. JAY MICHAELSON

If I approached him at a mpaign rally or an Alabama football game, he would probably only project the imaggs of his ilk, the same tired anti-gay myths of stroyed fai, unf parents and child abe. I was exposed only to a false and hostile ncept of gayns. If Moore’s parison between homosexualy and btialy reveals one thg, is that Roy Moore has a ser se of what I ll “straight ignorance.

It is an ignorance that prevents someone om unrstandg gay people’s inti and experienc. Moore clared at the time that the plat agast him that led to his oter was “a polilly motivated effort by radil homosexual and transgenr groups to remove me as chief jtice of the Supreme Court bee of outspoken opposn to their immoral agenda. In 2005, Moore said a rad terview that “homosexual nduct should be illegal” and that homosexualy is “the same thg” as btialy.