ROY MOORE: JUDGE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN LAW

The poster child of a deplorable is Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court judge in Alabama who, among other things, doesn't believe in law.  He was ousted once from the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to take down a Ten Commandments plague from his courtroom in the state judicial building.  A poll showed, however, the 88% of Alabamans supported Moore on this issue.  Then he was reelected and tossed out again when he told other judges in Alabama they don;t need to follow the law on same sex marriage.

As a judge, Moore refused to obey a federal court order to remove from his courthouse a monument to the Ten Commandments he had installed to underscore his belief. He was removed from his job as a result.*

In a 2002 legal opinion, he described homosexual conduct as “an inherent evil,” and he has argued that the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage should not be considered the rule of law. He was suspended from Alabama’s court a second time for defying the higher court’s marriage decision, and he later decided to retire from the bench.*

Moore has said:

To disfavor practicing homosexuals in custody matters is not invidious discrimination, nor is it legislating personal morality. On the contrary, disfavoring practicing homosexuals in custody matters promotes the general welfare of the people of our State in accordance with our law, which is the duty of its public servants...

The State carries the power of the sword, that is, the power to prohibit conduct with physical penalties, such as confinement and even execution. It must use that power to prevent the subversion of children toward this lifestyle, to not encourage a criminal lifestyle...

Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it. That is enough under the law to allow a court to consider such activity harmful to a child. To declare that homosexuality is harmful is not to make new law but to reaffirm the old; to say that it is not harmful is to experiment with people's lives, particularly the lives of children.^[**

In August 2017, Moore suggested that 9/11 was a punishment by God for Americans' declining religiosity**Moore has also stated that suffering in the United States may be because "we legitimize sodomy" and "legitimize abortion."[114] The Washington Post notes that "among the prices [Moore] says this country has paid for denying God’s supremacy: the high murder rate in Chicago, crime on the streets of Washington, child abuse, rape and sodomy.**

Moore believes Obama is not a U.S. citizen to this day.**

Moore feels that Islam is a false religion. He claims there are communities in the U.S. under Sharia Law, something that has no factual basis. He also feels that Muslims shouldn't serve in the American congress. [currently there are two].  On a TV interview, Moore said he never heard of DACA or Dreamers and asked what they were.***

For more see the references.*

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/moore-vs-strange-polling-opens-in-alabama-republican-primary/2017/09/25/9c7192f8-a253-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html?utm_term=.d261dbbba5b1
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore
*** http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/roy-moore-leading-candidate-in-alabama-senate-race-doesnt-know-what-daca-is/article/2633200