Quote:Turning back the clock with Roy Moore
If a latter-day Rip Van Winkle woke up this week from a 50-year nap in Alabama, he’d figure not much had changed when he learned that Roy Moore had won a run-off election and was poised to become the state’s next U.S. senator.
An Alabama politician who makes his name by refusing to obey federal court orders? Same-old, same-old.
Well, not quite. Most white Alabamans aren’t yellow-dog Democrats any more but yellow-dog Republicans. And where George Wallace’s raison d’être was racial segregation, Moore’s is Christian nationalism.
As in placing a stone monument carved with the Ten Commandments and various patriotic scriptures in the state judicial building. And telling probate judges not to give out marriage licenses because same-sex marriage violates the Christian God’s law.
In the service of his ideology, Moore carries around a laminated copy of Joseph Story’s 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, which says about the First Amendment, “It was the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America that Christianity ought to be favored by the State.”
http://religionnews.com/2017/09/29/turni...roy-moore/
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