Judge

It serves Roy Moore right that people are judging him on those accusations of sexual assault from those women who were teenagers in the late ‘70s. After all, he’s spent a career judging entire groups of people.

Moore has consistently judged gay people, Muslims and black people. He has said Muslims should not serve in Congress and made wacky claims that there is sharia law in parts of the United States. He has said Obergefell v. Hodges is a worse Supreme Court decision than Dred Scott, meaning he thinks gay marriage is worse than the dehumanization of black people, which is insulting to gay people and black people.

Now Moore wants the benefit of the doubt? When it comes to other people, Roy Moore wants Old Testament fire and brimstone but when it comes to himself, he only wants New Testament forgiveness. Sorry, Roy—you sowed the wind and now you’re reaping the whirlwind.  

Then you have people in Alabama defending this guy. “Oh, it’s terrible to judge him.” This is a man who called homosexuality, “a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it.” You have 30 people accusing someone of child molestation and people call for a lack of judgment but Moore’s hateful blanket statements, against people accused of no crime, got a pass? Where were all these “judge not lest ye be judged” people when Roy Moore was spewing this trash?

And then there’s that yahoo in Alabama who gave Moore a pass because the Virgin Mary was 14 when Joseph married her. So the reasoning is molesting a 14-year-old girl is OK because Bible? Or “’70s”? How many people would be OK with a 30-something guy hitting on their teenage daughters?

More to the point, how many people are OK with giving this guy the ability to make federal laws? He’s already been kicked off the bench twice for not being able to follow the law. Does anybody really think the third time in office will be the charm?

Mitt Romney made a good point, saying something like, “‘Innocent until proven guilty’ is a standard in criminal trials, not elections,” calling Moore to drop out. We’ve rejected politicians for far less than this. We don’t have to hang Moore in the town square but I think it’s perfectly reasonable not to give him a promotion. If people do have questions about the allegations, why not err on the side of not electing an accused child molester to the Senate?