Roy Moore

Here are what I think to be the salient facts about Judge Moore, who is the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Alabama; he is opposed by Democrat Doug Jones in a special election to be held December 12. He was elected Chief Judge of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2001 but was removed from that office by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary in November of 2003  for refusing to remove a monument to the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Judicial Building, despite an order from a federal court that it be done. He was again elected Chief Justice in 2013 but was suspended in May, 2016 for directing Alabama probate judges to continue enforcing that state's ban on same sex marriage, despite a  U.S.Supreme Court decision which had the effect of legalizing it throughout the U.S. He appealed, lost and resigned in April 2017. He was one of the founders and was President of the Foundation for Moral Law, the purpose of which is to affirm the sovereignty of God in law making.  In a CNN interview, as edited, he stated that  in 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court, in making a decision striking down a Texas statute against Sodomy, usurped the legislative function.  He was quoted in that interview "homosexual conduct should be illegal".  He has a credible reputation as one who believes Christianity to have always been essential to American democracy in that it is the moral  requirement for the affirmation of individual rights. He is an outspoken supporter of President Trump and is widely expected, if elected, to be a leader in mobilizing true GOP support for our President.

If I could, I would gladly vote for Judge Moore.  If he is elected, I will celebrate much as I did last Nov. 8th.

For one thing, his foundation has supported the Colorado bakers who refused to obey a liberal inquisition's order to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple despite the resulting violation of their religious beliefs.  They were subjected to draconian legal sanctions but the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to judge their case. I have no doubt that Roy Moore's Foundation for Moral Law will lend the bakers legally powerful support. The bakers have been terribly wronged by the totalitarian persecution to which they have been subjected and Judge Moore stands for justice for them.
  
The U.S. is  a Christian nation to the very core. In virtually every small town I've ever seen, the two most substantial buildings are the school and the church(es).  That is very good news for our other religions because modern Christianity expresses and enacts profound respect for other faiths .  That is because over the last 2000 years Christianity has learned from its mistakes; it underwent a painful self examination during the Reformation, the Counter Reformation and the European Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, which redirected it to the love and forebearance of its founder.  To deny its primacy in American thought and reflection is "politically correct" sophistry and is understandably advanced by those who seek to destroy our culture as a prerequisite to its replacement with a regime inspired by notions formed from whole cloth by presumptuous radicals. I think Judge Moore subscribes to this view and in doing so, demonstrates his essential Americanism. The Founding fathers never intended separation of  politics, government and the Christian faith.  Might as well remove Newton and Einstein from the science of physics.

The rule of law, a mainstay of Western civilization from the Romans on, MUST be honored or lawful order is forfeit and chaos is nigh in our culture.  Judge Moore resisted it in 2003 and paid the price.  In 2013 he did so again.  Thoreau, in Civil Disobedience, an essay for which the 1960s' style radicals who now have such a fell effect on our politics have expressed admiration, nonetheless therein admonished  principled rebels to accept the lawful consequences of their actions.  Judge Moore has suffered the consequences of his resistance and leftists, with their demonstrated disdain for our cultural history and their cavalier dismissal of painstakingly settled and natural law, lack the moral and intellectual authority to attack him. Pro communist terrorists were "guilty as hell and free as a bird" when they traitorously undermined our fight against the world Marxist depravity which presumptuously denied that for which men like Judge Moore have unshakeable faith.

Lets assume that the CNN interview was fairly edited and accurately quoted. Really, that's generous.  His doubts about the propriety of the Supreme Court decision which outlawed the Texas sodomy statute yet reiterated many, many warnings about the drawbacks of allowing a nine member tribunal to write  national law every bit as mandatory as that passed by hundreds of state and  national legislators.  Yes, I'm sure that Judge Moore recognizes Marbury vs Madison as settled law but his demonstrated reservations about the misuse of judicial review are honorable.

I imagine Judge Moore, in having made his quoted statement on homosexuality, to have been saying this to the interviewer:  "You asked me if I think homosexuality should be illegal; I said 'homosexual conduct should be illegal'.  In the context of evaluating the Supreme Court decision and despite your blatant effort to advance my comments beyond what I intend by demanding a yes or no answer, I say Texas law should be decided by Texans, embodying their beliefs, instead of by detached intellectuals in Washington.  If it were, I would think it probable that the Texas statute would stand."  If this is what Alabamians believed he was saying,  then his reelection  as Chief Judge was a very plausible indication of his fitness to represent his state, yes?

 I rejoice to think of the possibility of Roy Moore in the Senate. His efforts and his very presence should go far toward affording our very sensible and public minded anti elitist President the support he needs.  The spineless RINO faction in Congress must be shown the door - its day is done -  and Roy Moore has the sand in his craw to lead the charge. I love his unapologetic faith in the common sense real America and his resolve to advance its (if you will) "terrible swift sword" against those Republicans who are afraid to use the historic chance they have been given to destroy the scourge of American Marxism.

I am not afraid at all of an incipient theocracy led by a prospective Senator Roy Moore.  The very present threat presented by the radical leftist faction, motivated by absolutism which puts the medieval Papacy to hob and which has empowered two and almost three Presidents already, is a far more onerous and immediate prospect. We know what to expect from any Democrat Party Senator -  subjection to New Yawka Charles Schumer.  "Senator Moore": a much to be hoped for consummation. Jack