{"id":506150,"date":"2021-02-09T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/roy-moore\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:41","slug":"roy-moore","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/roy-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014While running for Senate, was credibly accused<\/a> of sexual assault, child predation and molestation, while verbally attacking LGBTQ people. Insisted<\/a> that \u201chomosexual conduct should be illegal.\u201d (33:39)<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> the Supreme Court\u2019s landmark marriage equality ruling is worse than the 1857 Dred Scott<\/em> decision, which upheld slavery.<\/p>\n

\u2014Framed trans people as<\/a> having \u201cmisguided confusion over their God-given chromosomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Compared situation surrounding marriage equality and religious liberty to Germany during Nazi times, repurposing a famous slogan about Hitler\u2019s regime to apply to LGBTQ activists: \u201cYou know, we are going through something in our country that other countries have gone through. Germany went through it when the state took all power and moved in with the church….They came for the bakers, but I didn\u2019t bake cakes. They came for the florist, but I didn\u2019t deal in flowers. They came for a little clerk down in Kentucky by the name of Kim Davis, but hey I\u2019m not a clerk, I have nothing to do with issuing licenses. But then they came for me, and nobody was left.\u201d (32:50-34:15<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2014Bemoaned<\/a> LGBTQ-inclusive hate crimes laws, saying, \u201cThere is a dangerous trend surfacing in other countries and here in America where governments are trying to make it illegal to speak out against homosexuality, even when such an immoral lifestyle is publicly paraded in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Served as honorary chairman<\/a> for an anti-marriage equality organization that told gay people they need to \u201cchange.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014Said of LGBTQ people<\/a>: \u201cSo-called proponents of free choice want not only to be free to live an immoral lifestyle, they also want to force everyone else to accept their abnormal behavior or face serious consequences. And they will not hesitate to use the force of government to compel others to sacrifice their religious convictions so that society will only accept their warped beliefs as legitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Favorably compared<\/a> his own anti-LGBTQ views to the extreme views of Vladimir Putin<\/p>\n

\u2014In front of radical anti-abortion group Operation Save America, delivered an hourlong attack on marriage equality and concluded that he \u201cloves homosexuals\u201d enough to \u201ctell them the truth.\u201d (Around 1:00:10<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2014When asked directly about bestiality, said homosexuality is \u201cthe same thing\u201d as having sex with a cow<\/a>. (39:53)<\/p>\n

\u2014As Alabama\u2019s chief justice, wrote<\/a> into a 2002 opinion his belief that homosexuality is a \u201ccriminal lifestyle,\u201d an \u201cinherent evil against which children must be protected,\u201d and an \u201cabhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and of nature\u2019s God upon which this Nation and our laws are predicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014As a guest speaker during a church service, attacked courts that allow putting \u201ca lesbian as a husband,\u201d saying \u201cscience dictates that a man can\u2019t be a woman, and a woman can\u2019t be a man. You can dress like them, you can use hormones, you can change your body, you can think\u2014but you can\u2019t produce an egg or a sperm unless you are a woman or a man…. So now we have judges that are ruling against science. (45:00<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2014Also attacked transgender people: \u201cWe do have a right to tell them what their sin is. We do have a right to say this is wrong. This is deteriorating this country. Now we have a right to think we\u2019re the opposite sex if we want to be. Your mamas and daddies didn\u2019t think that. Nobody in here had a mama or daddy who thought that. You\u2019re seeing little bitty kids now, it\u2019s the latest thing. You know, a nation that turns away from God and his law suffers the consequences.\u201d (55:30<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2014Wrote<\/a> about gay people: \u201cThose who practice an immoral act that less than 40 years ago was not to be mentioned in polite public circles \u2026 \u201cFor the sake of our nation\u2019s survival, it is time to voice our strongest opposition to homosexual conduct because morality still matters, not only in the military, but also in society at large.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Insisted<\/a> that \u201csodomy was deemed an abomination by the Creator\u201d and that \u201cSame-sex marriage and sodomy are, simply stated, a slippery slope to polygamy and incestuous relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> LGBTQ people \u201cflaunt their perversion in public parades, \u2018gay\u2019 television shows and Hollywood movies.<\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested<\/a> that 9\/11 was God\u2019s punishment for things like \u201clegitimized sodomy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Filed an amicus brief<\/a> arguing at length that \u201chomosexual conduct has always been and continues to be immoral and should not be protected or sanctioned by law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Filed amicus brief<\/a> arguing \u201cthe presence of homosexuals in the armed forces will weaken the armed forces\u2019 ability to defend this nation by admitting into the armed forces people who engage in conduct that is both immoral and unhealthy, and that the armed forces budget and resources will be strained by having to pay for and treat the many unhealthy conditions that arise out of the homosexual lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Wrote letter<\/a> to Alabama\u2019s governor condemning the 2003 repeal of criminal sodomy laws and all that followed after.<\/p>\n

\u2014Compared<\/a> marriage equality to counterfeit money.<\/p>\n

\u2014Argued<\/a> that marriage equality would \u201cliterally cause the destruction of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> marriage equality means \u201cwe no longer have a Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed God is punishing America<\/a> for marriage equality and abortion.<\/p>\n

\u2014Sought<\/a> a convention of states to ban marriage equality.<\/p>\n

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