Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore (R), a controversial religious conservative running for Senate, claimed earlier this year that “shootings and killings” in the United States take place because “we’ve taken God out of everything.”
“We are losing the acknowledgment of God,” Moore said in remarks to Citizen Impact USA in August, captured in footage an Atlanta-based production company uploaded to Youtube in August and first flagged by CNN’s KFILE on Tuesday.
“You wonder why we’re having shootings and killings in 2017? Because we’ve asked for it. We’ve taken God out of everything,” he said. “We’ve taken prayer out of school. We’ve taken prayer out of council meetings.”
Moore, who has the backing of President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, is no stranger to controversial remarks. On Sunday, he cited “blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting” as examples of divisions in the United States, and claimed “God” would unite the country.
CNN’s KFILE last week surfaced remarks Moore made in February suggesting that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were also a form of divine punishment.
Moore is supported by Bannon and former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, but not by Trump himself, who announced over the weekend that he will campaign for Moore’s primary runoff opponent, appointed Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), on Saturday. The primary runoff election is Sept. 26.
What kind of Crusade is this asshole on?.
This country would be a better place if Moore’s men in Vietnam had fragged him! He’s nothing more than a christian-terrorist!
“With the Vietnam War underway, Moore first served in several posts as a military police officer, including Fort Benning, Georgia, and Illesheim, Germany before being sent to South Vietnam. Serving as company commander of his military police unit, Moore was known to be very strict. Some of the soldiers gave him the derogatory nickname, “Captain America,” because of his attitude toward discipline. His role earned him several enemies, and in his autobiography he recalls sleeping on sandbags to avoid a grenade or bomb being tossed under his cot, as many had threatened fragging the commander.”
Exactly right.
And the people of Alabama will send this guy as their representative, which I guess suites them well. Not sure how they managed to have such a large concentration of horrible people in one state. And before someone comes out saying that there are “good” people in AL, no, there are a tons of pious people in AL, which is not the same thing. I have known good people that are FROM Alabama, and of course they have no desire to go back there.
Holy shit!