The public preoccupation with the matter of whether or not Roy Moore is an insecure horndog, or was 40-years ago, overlooks that there are incontestably well-documented reasons to vote against him today: He is a theocrat. He is deeply anti-American and, by any sane reckoning, ought to be counted an enemy of this country.
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“Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.”
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“Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.”
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“You wonder why we’re having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we’ve asked for it. We’ve taken prayer out of school.”
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“The free exercise clause of the constitution does not apply to any religion but Christianity.”
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“False religions like Islam who teach that you must worship this way are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for.”
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“Worship With Your Vote.”
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“There is no such thing as evolution.”
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“Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.”
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“I feel that I’m sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God … my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God.”
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“I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer.”
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“The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.”
We know what theocratic states look like; we are fighting them all over the world.
James Madison, universally acknowledged as the United States Constitution’s chief architect, said this: “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
Roy Moore is a Christian Nationalist, and we can’t afford to be indulgent: He is an enemy of American ideals.