Roy Moore loves homophobes and they love him
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In addition to stalking teenage girls at the local mall, ringing them up at school to press them for dates, and attacking them in his car, 70-year-old Roy Moore has a long history of egregious and sometimes unconstitutional behavior that has made the RepublRoy Moore loves homophobes and they love him
In addition to stalking teenage girls at the local mall, ringing them up at school to press them for dates, and attacking them in his car, 70-year-old Roy Moore has a long history of egregious and sometimes unconstitutional behavior that has made the Republican one of the right-wing’s poster boys in America’s culture war and simultaneously cost him high posts in the state judiciary, including removal in 2003 and again in 2016 as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. That second removal came about because he directed probate judges in the state to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled marriage equality to be the law of the land. His hatred for LGBTQ people extends to calling gayness “an inherent evil” and saying “homosexual conduct should be illegal,” another point of view that was belatedly knocked down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas. In a 2005 interview with Bill Press, he compared gay sex with bestiality. Three years ago, he wrote letters to all the state governors urging them to hold a constitutional convention to ban marriage equality. He has said “transgenders don’t have rights.” His homophobia has naturally been greeted with fear, sadness, and anger among LGBTQ people and extended applause from the haters and Bible-thumpers who either ignore his sexually predatory behavior with high school girls half his age or see absolutely nothing out of bounds about it. Come the special election next month, he can expect them to cast their ballot for him instead of Democrat Doug Jones even as ever more Republicans call on him to abandon his campaign that a recent poll said he is on a trajectory to lose. Read more