ponderingturtle
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I got a feeling the Bannon Moore alliance is strictly one of convienence.
It is build a a firm foundation of racism after all, so I suspect it goes pretty deep.
I got a feeling the Bannon Moore alliance is strictly one of convienence.
Even if Jones loses, there is a upside for the Dems:Moore will be a 24/7 embarrassment to the GOP,force other GOP senators to spend a lot of time distancing themselves from his postions, and be the best fundraiser the Democrats ever had........
Even if Jones loses, there is a upside for the Dems:Moore will be a 24/7 embarrassment to the GOP,force other GOP senators to spend a lot of time distancing themselves from his postions, and be the best fundraiser the Democrats ever had........
Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore once argued that the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage nationwide was “even worse” than the 19th century Dred Scott case, which found that African-Americans were not citizens, and therefore property.
“Yes, sir. I was simply pointing out that in 1857 the United States Supreme Court did rule that black people were property. And of course that contradicted the Constitution and it took a civil war to overturn it,” Moore told the “Here I Stand” podcast last November.
“But this ruling in Obergefell is even worse in a sense because it forces not only people to recognize marriage other than the institution ordained of God and recognized by nearly every state in the union, it says that you now must do away with the definition of marriage and make it between two persons of the same gender or leading on, as one of the dissenting justices said, to polygamy, to multi marriage ---- partner marriages.”
The audio was uploaded by liberal super-PAC American Bridge and first reported by Talking Points Memo.
Moore, the Alabama Republican nominee for the Senate special election in December, argued that the Obergefell v. Hodges case requires Christians “give up their religious freedom.”
“We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty,” Moore continued in the podcast.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...age-decision-even-worse-than-1857-pro-slavery
Apparently to Republicans one of the most important freedoms Christians should have is the freedom to legally mandate discrimination against same-sex couples, including for example by making same-sex intercourse a capital offense, and imposing their bigoted homophobia upon society.
This is what freedom and liberty is all about: religious zealots imposing their will upon everyone else.
Note that this lunatic apparently exemplifies the sort of new Republican that Mr. Bannon admires. He’s heavily promoting Moore in favor of the actually-moderate Republican incumbent.
I certainly hope that the portion of the electorate that thinks of themselves as reasonably sane will wake up for the coming election cycles.
Two of Corfman’s childhood friends say she told them at the time that she was seeing an older man, and one says Corfman identified the man as Moore. Wells says her daughter told her about the encounter more than a decade later, as Moore was becoming more prominent as a local judge.
Aside from Corfman, three other women interviewed by The Washington Post in recent weeks say Moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his early 30s, episodes they say they found flattering at the time, but troubling as they got older. None of the women say that Moore forced them into any sort of relationship or sexual contact.
Wendy Miller says she was 14 and working as a Santa’s helper at the Gadsden Mall when Moore first approached her, and 16 when he asked her on dates, which her mother forbade. Debbie Wesson Gibson says she was 17 when Moore spoke to her high school civics class and asked her out on the first of several dates that did not progress beyond kissing. Gloria Thacker Deason says she was an 18-year-old cheerleader when Moore began taking her on dates that included bottles of Mateus Rosé wine. The legal drinking age in Alabama was 19.*
Of the four women, the youngest at the time was Corfman, who is the only one who says she had sexual contact with Moore that went beyond kissing. She says they did not have intercourse.
I really hope this matters ... but am ready for it to be completely shrugged off.![]()
Gloria Thacker Deason says she was an 18-year-old cheerleader when Moore began taking her on dates that included bottles of Mateus Rosé wine. The legal drinking age in Alabama was 19.*
Jesus's teachings forbid this!
I really hope this matters ... but am ready for it to be completely shrugged off.![]()
It's going to be a disturbing experiment in what conservative partisans are willing to excuse in order to elect someone unfit for office.
It's going to be a disturbing experiment in what conservative partisans are willing to excuse in order to elect someone unfit for office.
It would be sweet justice to see him brought down by this after he made his career on attempting to criminalize sex between consenting adults.After they forgave Trump for his pussy grabbing comments i think the people of Alabama would be perfectly fine with this.
I suppose it will be whether the woman were hot or not If they were hot then who could blame him?I really hope this matters ... but am ready for it to be completely shrugged off.![]()
It's going to be a disturbing experiment in what conservative partisans are willing to excuse in order to elect someone unfit for office.