Senate candidate Roy Moore in 2005: 'Homosexual conduct should be illegal'

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Source: CNN

Senate candidate Roy Moore in 2005: 'Homosexual conduct should be illegal'

By Nathan McDermott and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN

Updated 12:40 PM ET, Thu September 21, 2017

(CNN) -- Roy Moore, a Republican US Senate candidate in Alabama, said in a 2005 interview that he believes "homosexual conduct" should be illegal. ... Moore, a hardline conservative Christian and former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, made the comments in an interview (1) with liberal commentator Bill Press on C-SPAN2's After Words. Moore appeared on the show to publicize a book he had just written about his expulsion from the court for refusing to take down a monument to the Ten Commandments.

During the interview Press asked Moore if he believed homosexual conduct should still be illegal after the 2003 landmark Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas that struck down a state law banning sodomy, rendering similar laws across the country unconstitutional.

"What I think is that it was illegal under the law, that the Supreme Court usurped the role of the legislature and ruled something about our moral law that is improper, and that's what we're finding the Supreme Court and the federal district courts are doing daily," Moore responded. "They've usurped the moral prerogative, now, if you want--"

Press cut in, saying, "I don't understand your answer. I think it's a yes or no. Do you think that homosexual--homosexuality, or homosexual conduct should be illegal today? That's a yes or no question." ... "Homosexual conduct should be illegal, yes," Moore answered.

(1) https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4682986/roy-moore-2005-bill-press

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/politics/kfile-roy-moore-homosexuality-illegal/index.html

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A Moore spokesman refused to say if he still believes "homosexual conduct should be illegal."

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[J_William_Ryan]

1. Such

is the reprehensible right's contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.

[nycbos]

2. I am surprised he hasn't been caught using a gay hookup app.

[Metro135]

6. Just wait

[47of74]

8. yeah me too

Or been caught in an airport shit house doing something he shouldn't. (h/t Lawrence Edwin Craig).

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Let's go in the Scarlet Letter 'A' and 'S' branding iron business

They will demonize anything to convince themselves they are not demons

[yallerdawg]

4. That is no problem for what is often the majority of voters in Alabama.

But another damn good reason to turn out for the Democratic candidate Doug Jones in December!

[christx30]

5. I'm not suprised by this at all.

During the whole marriage equality fight, a lot of conservative people I've read were saying they'd rather see Russian tanks rolling across the Golden Gate bridge than see gay people getting married (though, they weren't phrasing it as nicely).
It's religious fascism. And it's why we call them America's Taliban.

[47of74]

7. Statements like that just beg for someone to come forward and say how ol' Roy...

...wide stanced it in an airport shit house, or carried on with someone behind the back of the Missus.

[Cryptoad]

9. Majority of Republicans in Alabama ,,,,,,,

believe that, they just don't say it in public!

[LeftishBrit]

10. I suddenly remember that 'Ten Commandments' incident!

I remember being REALLY shocked by it, because I initially thought it was Michael Moore(!), and why on earth would he be putting up a monument to the Ten Commandments?! I was relieved to find out that it wasn't; but Roy Moore certainly is a complete loony. So he is running for senator now? What with Jeff Sessions and the wonderfully named Luther Strange and now this person - is it possible to be an Alabama senator without being a raving lunatic?

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Illegal -- and maybe a capital offense ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10081485

[SpankMe]

12. I'd support a movement to make Roy Moore illegal. n/t