Another day, another outrageously ignorant and hateful remark from Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore.
Talking Points Memo has just uncovered recent audio of Moore claiming the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality was worse than the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling that upheld slavery.
(In case you need a quick history refresher: Dred Scott was a slave who was taken to live in a free state by his master. After the master died, Scott sued his widow for his freedom, but lost the case.)
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The recording was made last November when Moore appeared on the extremist radio program Here I Stand.
Said Moore:
In 1857 the United States Supreme Court did rule that black people were property. Of course that contradicted the Constitution, and it took a civil war to overturn it. 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-partner marriages.
Moore, who earlier this year declared “God is the only source of our law, liberty and government,” went on to say the Obergefell ruling threatened the rights and freedoms of good ol’ Christian folk:
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 is a longtime hater of the gays. In 2015, he stated homosexuality should be illegal in the U.S. He also called on Congress to impeach the Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of marriage equality and was removed from his seat as an Alabama Supreme Court chief justice after refusing to honor the ruling.
He’s currently the front runner in the special election to fill Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat in Alabama.
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Juanjo
This moron again. Mr. Moore – gay people getting married does not violate the rights of far right, Christian fundamentalists unless there is some law compelling these far right Christian fundamentalists to marry people of the same sex.
Paco
No one is forcing Christians to get married to the same sex. Their “Religious Liberty” is still intact.
Paco
The hypocritical Christians still have the freedom to violate their own religious rules every day.
1EqualityUSA
Meanwhile, PragerU is airing a, “what is alt-right” ad, linking alt-right with the political left! Chipping away at identity, so that that thief, Justice Gorsuch will have an easier time of taking away our inalienable rights. Propaganda is so Russian. Yuck! The ad is stinky. Almost up there with NOM’s “storm” twaddle a few years back. The GOP must be desperate to spend super PAC money on propagandizing. Must have learned how to push false doctrine from that Mormon sect. PragerUboys will sport white shirts, black ties, and bicycles if they keep this up. Phoney load of Christian wolves in sheeps’ clothing. Separation of church and state, lest you have a nutter telling you how to worship, who to love, and being generally, overall heinous towards the underserved.
paul dorian lord fredine
moore lives while ‘fats’ domino passes away. live ain’t fair.
dwes09
Perfect comment! Domino brought joy to people of all sorts for many, many years and helped create rock and roll. By contrast Moore works hard to trample joy wherever he sees it.
Berkleyguy
He is nothing more than a homophobic moron. It’s amazing how many Fred Phelps Wannabees have emerged since Phelps’ death.
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DCguy
Hmmm, weird, the anti-lgbt trolls that keep saying the GOP loves “The Gays” and the Dems are bad don’t seem to wanting to extend the discussion on this guy.
How interesting.
GayEGO
Ah! We knew a homophobic that believed gays are worse than murderers, so Roy Moore must be a homophobic! Moore is also a doofus, plain and simple.
1EqualityUSA
The GOPers are doofii.
captainburrito
Even he looks uncomfortable wearing that outfit!
gayhope1990
It’s Trump’s bigot gang
Notright
Well no matter what he thinks marriage equality is here to stay. If you do get married though make sure you get a prenup. Yes you need one even if you’re broke! https://gayblackproud.org/2017/11/01/need-prenup-even-youre-broke/