He’s shown time and again that he holds the word of God above that of the Constitution, a view that has gotten him into trouble more than once.“I want to see virtue and morality returned to our country and God is the only source of our law, liberty and government,” Moore said just last week in a debate with Luther Strange, who lost the GOP nomination despite millions of dollars in Republican backing and an endorsement from President Donald Trump.In 2003, Moore was removed as chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court after he erected a 5,200-pound monument of the 10 Commandments inside the state’s judicial building.Lawsuits were filed contending that it represented a government-endorsed display of religion.“God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children,” he said at the time.Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one’s ability to describe it.”Moore was re-elected to the bench in 2012, but was suspended again last year after he was found guilty on six charges of violating the canons of judicial ethics.In 2014, he wrote letters to governors of every state asking for their support in a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman.In 2015, he ordered Alabama judges to defy a 2015 U.S.Supreme Court ruling and instead enforce their “ministerial duty” by refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses.“We are talking about someone who is truly, truly unhinged,” said Richard Cohen, president of the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.“He has concocted legal theories to justify his religious goals, but none that makes any sense.”Moore’s opposition to same-sex marriage doesn’t stop there.In 2002, he opined that the state should be expected to keep children away from homosexual parents.“Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one’s ability to describe it,” Moore wrote.“We’re having prayers [by] atheists? We’re having Wiccans say prayers? How foolish can we be?” Moore asked in 2014, in response to people in Hunstville, Alabama, being allowed to pray before city council meetings.“There is one God and it’s the God on which this nation was founded.And it’s the God of the scriptures.”“Islamic law is simply incompatible with our law,” Moore wrote in World Net Daily, a right-wing news website, in 2006.“Common sense alone dictates that in the midst of a war with Islamic terrorists we should not place someone in a position of great power who shares their doctrine.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.’”America the Beautiful, or so you used to be,Land of the Pilgrims’ pride, I’m glad they’re not here to see,Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand,Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.
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