Roy Moore's twisted history: Islam and Buddhism don't have First Amendment protection, chief justice

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By Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail]
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on May 05, 2014 at 12:55 PM, updated June 02, 2017 at 7:45 AM

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Moore spoke to the Pastors-for-Life in Mississippi in January, but video from that speech only began to make its way around the Internet in the last week. In it, Moore argues that "religion," as defined in the First Amendment, applies only to God the Creator.

"Everybody, to include the United States Supreme Court, has been deceived as to one little word in the first amendment called 'religion,'" he said. "They can't define it."

Moore insisted that freedom of religion applies only the God of the Bible, and therefore the protections of the establishment clause do not extend to other religions, such as Islam and Buddhism.
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When Moore disparages other religions, or when all but snarls as he speaks of same-sex marriage, he spits in the eyes of those founders whose work he claims to cherish, and men like Moore were neither alien nor unimaginable to those three founders. In fact, one paragraph Jefferson wrote in the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom could have been penned, in foresight, with officials like Moore in mind.
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more: http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/05/roy_moores_twisted_hisotry_isl.html




Yeah, it's three years old, but we're still dealing with this knuckle-dragger who now wants to be our next Senator -- and is leading in the polls. Read up, and know thine enemy.

[benld74]

1. Moore is a twisted old fossil who needs to lose and be put out to pasture

[defacto7]

2. K&R

[House of Roberts]

3. I can't decide whether to go vote in the runoff for Luther,

to keep Rabid Roy as far from the election as possible, or vote for Roy, and hope Doug Jones can beat Moore easier than he could Luther.

[Xipe Totec]

4. When you said three years old I thought you meant Judge Moore. nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Moore thinks he gets to decide which religions are "Real"

the First Amendment was created specifically to stop him from doing this.

[Solly Mack]

6. The world will be better off when Moore has the pleasure of meeting the maker he likes to speak for.