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Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
Thu Nov 16, 2017, 12:06 PM Nov 2017

Unfit ...

Before the voters of Alabama sent Roy Moore to the state capital twice; before Roy Moore took the position that the freedom of religion clause of the First Amendment applied only to Christians; before Roy Moore announced that Keith Ellison, who was elected to Congress from Minnesota, should be barred from taking office because he is a Muslim; before Roy Moore made numerous speeches promoting the conspiracy theory that President Obama was secretly a Muslim and was not born in the United States and was not qualified to be President; before Roy Moore rejected the theory of evolution, saying “we came from a snake? No I don’t believe that.”; before Roy Moore announced on national television that homosexual acts should be made “illegal”; before Roy Moore called for impeaching judges who issued rulings supporting homosexuals and same sex marriage; before Roy Moore announced that “transgender people don’t have rights”; before Roy Moore announced that the attacks of 9-11 were “punishment from God”; before Roy Moore said that the shootings at Sandy Hook, which killed 20 children and eight adults, happened “because we’ve forgotten the law of God”; before Roy Moore told Time magazine that NFL players taking a knee during the National Anthem “is against the law, you know that? It was a act of Congress that every man stand and put their hand over their heart. That's the law."; before Roy Moore called pre-school “totalitarianism”; before Roy Moore argued in a column for WND.com that God is the “sovereign source of our law”; before Roy Moore gave a speech in Mississippi arguing that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” came from the Christian God and that “Buddha didn't create us, Mohammed didn't create us, it was the God of the Holy Scriptures"; before Roy Moore began running for Senator from Alabama, he parked his car next to a dumpster behind the Olde Hickory House Restaurant in Gadsden, Alabama one night in 1977, and according to a statement by Beverly Young Nelson, who was a 16-year-old girl at the time, he sexually assaulted her by groping her breasts and grabbing her by the neck and attempting to force her head into his crotch.


https://www.salon.com/2017/11/15/wtf-is-wrong-with-roy-moore/

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