Alabama state official defends Roy Moore, citing Joseph and Mary

[Benton]

(11-15-2017, 12:40 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I don't understand why anyone is defending this guy.  Can't they just throw him out and find another right-wing guy somewhere in Alabama who isn't a child molester?  It's not like this guy being in office is the only thing preventing Alabama from becoming a left-wing stronghold equal to the Pacific rim.

When you've got guys (allegedly) like this, you run into the problem of those in the party with common sense who say 'he needs to step down and we can find a candidate who isn't an alleged sex offender;' those people end up squaring off with hard liners who say 'he did X once, go with him.' It compounds the problem with social/biased media where a large amount of people give voice to ideas like 'well, she was 14, so... you know... I just don't know... don't buy a Keurig.'

It's weird seeing the steady transformation of the religious right into a party that spends more time defending sex offenders than discussing policy. Weird since — for the last two decades — this was the same group that demonized Bill Clinton for cheating on his wife, and Democrats as the party of sexual deviants because they supported same sex marriage.