September 30, 2017: Judge Roy Moore Wants to Bring Back Bigotry to the Senate

 

9/30/17: The month ends with a conservative bang! Roy Moore beats Luther Strange in the Republican primary for a U.S. senate seat in Alabama. Trump, of course, backed Mr. Strange. The president responds to this defeat by deleting tweets hinting he ever backed Luther the Loser. 

 

“A bigoted, theocratic and ignorant buffoon.” 

Americans thrill to the knowledge that Moore may soon be one of 100 senators to represent the freest nation on earth. In a 2005 interview he told the reporter Bill Press, “Homosexual conduct should be illegal, yes.”  

Press sought clarification. 

“Do you know that bestiality, the relationship between man and beast is prohibited in every state?” Moore added. 

“You mean homosexuality is same thing as bestiality?” Press wondered. 

“It is a moral precept upon which this country was founded,” Moore explained. 

Other people who really hate homosexuals? 

Members of ISIS. 

Hitler.

 

Other gems from Moore: He ruled in a custody case in 2002 that a mother who had come out as lesbian and sought divorce from an allegedly abusive husband, could not be granted custody of the couple’s children. Homosexuality “would render” any man or woman “an unfit parent.” 

A woman once asked Moore what he thought about Muslim American workers asking for break times at work to pray. Was this a case of Sharia law taking over the land? “False religions like Islam,” the judge assured her, “who teach that you must worship this way are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.” 

(Read that again!)

 

When the people of Minnesota elected Keith Ellison, a Muslim, to the U.S. House of Representatives, Moore insisted he be barred from his seat. “Islamic law,” he warned, “is simply incompatible with our law.” 

Moore continued: 

In 1943, we would never have allowed a member of Congress to take their oath on Mein Kampf, or someone in the 1950s to swear allegiance to the Communist Manifesto. Congress has the authority and should act to prohibit Ellison from taking the congressional oath today!

 

This would make sense only if Moore is too dumb to read the U.S. Constitution, which he may be. The U.S. Constitution clearly states that any officeholder must swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution. 

One does not swear to uphold it on some random book, such as Who Moved the Cheese? or The Cat in the Hat. 

The U.S. Constitution also makes clear that no religious test for office shall be imposed. You can swear on the Bible. You can swear on the Quran, as did Ellison. You can offer oath of affirmation. 

Then you don’t need a book. 

Even the conservative National Review has described Moore as “a bigoted, theocratic and ignorant buffoon.”

 

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IN KEEPING with the racist subtext of his administration, the president answers criticism from San Juan, Puerto Rico’s mayor in a tweet (see: 9/29/17). Puerto Ricans, he grumbles, “want everything to be done for them.” 

Those lowdown, lazy dark-skinned people.