How Roy Moore’s rhetoric on gays, Muslims harks back to Alabama’s past

Washington Post ^ | September 27, 2017 | By Eugene Scott

[Oldeconomybuyer]

When more than 62 million Americans — including Alabama voters — got behind Donald Trump's message to make America great again, they latched onto a certain nostalgia.

Many of these voters longed for a United States when “family values” were synonymous with “American values” — particularly to voters from the conservative stronghold of Alabama.

And that's what Senate candidate Roy Moore has tapped into. The former judge won Alabama's Republican primary Tuesday and is now considered the front-runner in the general election.

For Moore, returning “the knowledge of God” to Washington means very specific things — particularly when it comes to sexuality.

“Homosexual conduct should be illegal,” Moore told a journalist in 2005.

Moore’s comments — and the support for them — show just how uninterested some Americans are in leaving some hallmarks of traditionalism in the past.

It was just 30 years ago that former segregationist George Wallace left the Alabama governor's mansion after the last of his four nonconsecutive terms in office.

After a campaign built on the cultural anxiety of white voters fearful that the civil rights movement would change Alabama as they knew it, Wallace promised that laws keeping black Americans from enjoying the rights held by whites would never come to pass.

It's not clear how Alabama voters may respond to what the world sees when they see Moore. Trump has endorsed him, and some well-known evangelical voters have gotten behind him, including Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson.

But many people on both sides of the aisle will be watching closely to see how Alabama, which is home to voters who still remember when laws made people who weren't white Christians second-class citizens, responds.

[RedStateRocker]

Bookmarking

[CptnObvious]

The Smear Jobxs Begin.

[Kickass Conservative]

Looks like Neil Young will be making a comeback.

Too bad most of the Leonard Skynard guys are dead.

[Williams]

Yeah Islam is just great, but no one can be a proud Christian.

[vette6387]

Eugene Scott=Holder’s Person

[rktman]

Where da white sheets at?

[rightwingcrazy]

I think racist Washington Post’s endless obsession with race and sex hearkens back to “Alabama’s past”, but much worse.

[raiderboy]

Praise Jesus for Senator Moore. Give them hell and I don’t mean just a little hit!!

[workerbee]

....they latched onto a certain nostalgia..... Many of these voters longed for a United States when “family values” were synonymous with “American values” — particularly to voters from the conservative stronghold of Alabama

Code alert! Code alert! Code alert!

[vetvetdoug]

Here they come. Moore will be up to the task as the liberal rectal orifices attack. He'll fit in well with Trump.

[workerbee]

It was just 30 years ago that former segregationist DEMOCRAT George Wallace left the Alabama governor's mansion

Fixed.

[vetvetdoug]

Surprise, Eugene Scott belongs to the race of professional victims.

[Bodleian_Girl]

Here's why Alabama completely rejected Big Luther.

Luther Strange had a very young and attractive campaign consultant who ended up getting a lot of money from him for consulting after the campaign had concluded. Not saying they had an affair. I have no idea. But as AG, Strange indicted a state legislature for paying someone for campaign work on a non-current campaign, which is what Strange did for his dear and close friend Jennifer.

Jennifer proceeds to divorce her husband. She filed notice with the court that she was moving to Bham from Tuscaloosa with her shared custody son. She gave the address of the house she was moving to in court documents in 2011. (Luther’s neighborhood when he lived in Bham.)

The house, in the upmarket exclusive conclave of Mountain Brook, was valued at around $450,000. But it wasn’t foreclosed on until 2012 and her “high bid” of $30,000 was accepted. Curious that she listed THIS ADDRESS in court papers when it wasn't even on the market!

A blogger wrote about that. A judge ordered that blogger jailed for writing about an alleged affair between then Gov. Bob Riler's son and a lobbyist, and then the blogger was sued for the Big Luther post . The blogger refused to be silenced. The judge put him in jail. He lost his home to foreclosure.

Fast forward: Alabama governor Robert Bentley is embroiled in an affair with a much younger married woman from his church. He puts the mistress and her husband on the state payroll.

The mistress basically begins to run the state. Lots of illegal things happen, not the least of which is the governor being caught on tape in a serious sexual conversation with the young lady.

He and she are getting dark money and open a safe deposit box together. Everyone knows that to get something on the Bentley’s desk it goes through Rebecca. So money flowed.

The same blogger who broke the alleged Luther/Jennifer affair broke the news of what the elderly Governor of Alabama was doing with his hook-up hottie Rebecca Mason. The Alabama media refused to touch it and gave the luv guv a free pass to continue raping the state.

Then the gov’s long suffering wife left her phone on record while she went on a beach walk and the lecherous old luv guv called his young mistress and proceeded to tell her what he wanted to do.

Someone unknown took the file to a gas station (on a jump drive) and called YellowHammer news, conservative news outlet in Alabama. (Former owner Cliff Sims now works for Trump.) Yellowhammer broke the story and then the chips all started falling.

But it took months for governor to get investigated. I mean, this just went on and on. Then Jeff Sessions was tapped for AG by Trump and Gov. Bentley took this opportunity to make a deal with Big Luther Strange.

Gov. appointed Luther to the senate and Luther called off the investigation into the gov and his mistress.

So it took even more months for things to be resolved. A new AG came in and got the gov. out, but a lot of people who did a lot of bad things walked because Luther called off the dogs.

The Gov. had members of his staff who knew about the affair targeted. He fired the head of the Alabama Law Enforcement, ALEA, Spencer Collier and accused him of stealing just to cover up his own crimes with his mistress and the dark money.

The gov attacked and sicked law enforcement on people who wrote about the affair. (This was blogger Roger Schuler and attorney David Watkins who broke the story first when no one else would.) Watkins owns a bank and Bentley had false investigations started on his bank.

There is soooo much more evil that went on and a lot of innocent people got hurt. And it went on far longer than it had to, all because Big Luther stopped the investigation so he could be appointed senator.

Mr. & Mrs. Strange

       

       

Mr. Strange's "Close Friend"

Mr. Strange's New Campaign Song:    "People Are Strange" - The Doors

Mr. & Mrs. Strange

       

       

Mr. Strange's "Close Friend"

Mr. Strange's New Campaign Song:    "People Are Strange" - The Doors

[Mr. Blond]

No mention of George Wallace’s party affiliation.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The article DID mention that Geo Wallace was a Dem, it was not in my excerpt.

[reasonisfaith]

If they’re talking about racism, that would be Alabama’s democrat past.

And frankly, the democrat present—in all states.

[backwoods-engineer]

“Homosexual conduct should be illegal,” Moore told a journalist in 2005.

Agree 100%. Now, I think that should essentially only mean that homosexual couplings are not recognized by the state as fruitful, and therefore not given tax advantages, and that the power of the state would not be brought to bear to make people recognzize such couplings, which has been the result of the Obergfell ruling in the Supreme Court.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Well I find it most puzzling that black students are wholly invested in segregating themselves from everyone else. Can our sad excuse of a media discuss that?

[Gay State Conservative]

That didn't take long.Of course the Compost would have run the exact same piece if the other guy won.