Roy Moore is everything wrong with the religious-Right

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Last night, Roy Moore won his primary runoff to become Alabama’s Republican candidate for US Senate, beating out the Trump-endorsed and establishment-backed Sen. Luther Strange. Strange is already one of the most hardline far-Rightists in Congress, yet Republican voters apparently felt he wasn’t quite regressive enough, so they picked someone who basically represents church-state separation advocates’ worst nightmare: an open Christian Reconstructionist who believes Biblical law trumps the Constitution at every turn. And he’s more or less guaranteed to win against his Democratic opponent.

Hemant Mehta at Friendly Atheist explains why this is, as he puts it, an unmitigated disaster:

Moore wants to make it illegal for gay men to sleep together. He suggested that 9/11 was the result of godlessness is our society. He installed a Ten Commandments monument in the state Supreme Court in the middle of the night, then refused to remove it. He told probate judges they didn’t have to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples even when it was legal. He said evolution was incompatible with our Constitution. He said Keith Ellison shouldn’t be allowed in Congress because he’s a practicing Muslim.

He doesn’t give a damn about the law he’s supposed to uphold. He never has. If the Bible conflicts with the Constitution, Moore would find it heretical to side with the Constitution — even as a member of Congress.

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He has no intention of doing what’s best for the American people. His only obligation is to please some imaginary friend in the sky, and if decent Americans respecting our laws get in the way of that, he has every intention of punishing them. Even as the most junior member of a hundred-person Senate, he would have far more power than he deserves.

You know how the Fox News crowd constantly freaks out about potential Sharia Law creeping into our nation? (Moore himself says it already has crept in… somewhere… even if he’s not sure where…)

Well, Roy Moore is what happens when Christian Sharia enters our government.

Moore believes his religion of choice trumps every other, and that religious law is or should be the law of the land, and that the government he wants to join should be subservient to scriptural doctrine; that people of other faiths (and especially those with none) don’t deserve civil rights and protections, and indeed are ineligible for them; that anyone who doesn’t conform to his narrow and rigid interpretation of his holy book is un-American.

He is the textbook definition of the American Taliban. And much like Trump, he’s the culmination of the bigotry and religious zealotry that the Republican Party has been fomenting for decades.