Former Alabama Justice Roy ‘Ten Commandments’ Moore Runs For Senate: Wants to ‘Make America Good Again’
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by Michael John Scott
Seated, most appropriately, beneath the Ten Commandments plaque that first made him a conservative icon in the culture wars, and the laughing stock of America’s secularists, US Senate candidate and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore invokes President Trump’s campaign slogan—but with his own twist.
“We can only make America great again if we make America good,”
Moore, a notorious ideologue, made this statement a day after announcing his bid for the Senate seat once held by unabashed racist Jeff Sessions, now Donald Trump’s attorney general.
Moore’s theme puts a values-driven spin on the president’s populist slogan, “Make America Great Again,” and Moore’s campaign announcement spelled out what he believes isn’t good: divorce, abortion, and same-sex marriage.
In what’s expected to be a high-dollar GOP primary slugfest, with multiple candidates seeking to harness the president’s blunt-spoken outsider appeal, Moore is a far-right and polarizing entry. “I am definitely not establishment,” Moore tells the AP with a chuckle, and few would argue with that assessment.
Former Alabama AG Luther Strange currently holds the Senate seat and is in the race. He was appointed by then-Gov. Robert Bentley, who resigned this month amid fallout from an alleged affair with a top staffer, despite his solemn and public promise to Jesus Himself that he was innocent.
Bentley had planned for a 2018 Senate election, but the state’s new governor, Kay Ivey, moved it up to this year, setting off what’s expected to be a four-month demolition derby among Republican contenders ahead of the Aug. 15 primary.
Trump’s Alabama campaign chair, Ed Henry—a Republican legislator who helped topple Bentley by starting an impeachment push—is running, too, in what’s shaping up to be a crowded field.
Yet the jurist who has made morality a core issue acknowledged he shares little in common with the thrice-married president. “God puts people in positions he wants. … I believe he sent Donald Trump in there to do what Donald Trump can do,” Moore said. “We will see what God would have me do.”
Yes Mr Chief Justice, let’s see what God would have you do, just like God had you removed from your job because you were, well, not one of his more polished products. Regardless, given Alabama’s track record you will likely win the election and go about the business of making America “good again.”
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I wanted to comment on the absurdity of seeing the Decalogue as a guide to general morality for the general population, but it would be a book. Just to say it isn’t intended to be complete, general or moral. It’s a quid pro quo contract with the Jews, that self destructs if you start admitting, among other things, heavenly or holy beings into a superior place to YHWH. Sorry Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The stone Judge Moore version is a severe abbreviation, not a translation, but it forbids images for worship or otherwise and all labor on the seventh day of the Jewish calendar. Were things added to it or subtracted over the long time during which it became canonical? Probably. Books have been written. but I’m restraining myself from going on for pages. Suffice it to say this entire thing is a Christian conceit, in contradiction of Christian doctrines about being freed by Jesus’ sacrifice from Jewish law and in contradiction of Jewish prohibitions against Christian practice and in mockery of Judge Moore and his vast army of ignoramuses.
Alabama has more than its share of black eyes from a national perspective. Roy Moore is one of them. Would I be surprised if the Bible thumping idiots elected him to the senate, not one bit. I will say though, that it is possible that he may have run out of steam. Alabama is still a red neck haven for Republicans but we may, in general be gaining a little ground. Here is the thing in Alabama, however. Becoming a Senator from Alabama is pretty much a life time job if once you get it. It is really difficult to unseat an incumbent as long as you don’t stand out or make mistakes. Richard Shelby is a good example. Few people even keep up with what he does. He stays out of the lime light and votes the way the people in Alabama want him to vote. Jeff sessions took a risk and it paid off for now, but he has put himself in a somewhat vulnerable position. He serves at the pleasure of Donald Trump. That is hardly a lifetime job guarantee. If things go sideways with Trumps agenda in immigration or anything else, like meetings with the Russians, he could be back in Alabama with nothing much to do.