GOP Moore-als Are Highly Un-Christian
Posted by: Not The Only One in Spirituality, Government Incompetence, Voting, Hypocrisy, Civil Rights, Government Corruption, Government InterferenceUntil recently I was convinced that America’s greatest threat was terrorism. But now I’m beginning to believe the real threat to our freedom is not Al Qaeda but Al Abama.
I recently received the following e-mail:
Dear Blog Editor,
We want to extend an exclusive invitation to you as a blogger to have a front row seat as Alabama’s former Chief Justice Roy Moore announces his intentions to run for Governor on June 1st at 12:30 P.M.
The Judge recognizes the importance of communicating directly with citizens via numerous mediums, including the internet. As an important part in the voter information process, the Judge will be answering questions from bloggers directly after he finishes his announcement speech. We will set up a live feed so you (and your blog readers) can watch his response to your question live. Please email us any questions that you would like to see the Judge answer prior to May 31st. Even if you are not from Alabama, please submit questions, Judge Moore is a national figure.
We will try to answer as many questions as we can in the time the Judge has, please understand if your question does not get answered. We are operating on a first come first serve basis. We will be sure to announce from which blog each question comes. Please respond as quickly as possible if you are interested in submitting a question. Thank you for your hard work and vigilance in engaging the public on important issues.
We look forward to answering your question on June 1st.
I was vaguely familiar with Moore from the Ten Commandments scandal of the 1990s in which Moore who was then Chief Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court commissioned a four foot tall, 5,280-pound granite monument of the Ten Commandments that was placed in the public area of the State Judicial Building. After ignoring numerous requests by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Alabama Judiciary Court to have the monument removed from the State Supreme Court, in 2003 Chief Justice Moore was himself forced to remove himself permanently from the courthouse as well.
The disgraced judge has since run an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Alabama in 2006 where he lost by a 2-1 margin and has become a columnist for WorldNetDaily, a right-wing website where Moore offers his narrow-minded views.
This is a guy-mind you he refers to himself as “Judge” Moore despite the fact he disgraced the bench and made a mockery of his state’s judicial system-who insists upon the following:
- That the Republicans lost the 2008 Presidential election because they weren’t religious enough
- That homosexuality has a destructive influence on our military
- That Muslims within our military ranks is a security threat
- That homosexuals have never respected morality or democratic rule
- That there is a link between the omission of God in America’s public schools and school shootings
- That “[h]omosexual conduct by its very nature is immoral, and its consequences are inherently destructive to the natural order of society.”
- That the Bible is the foundation of the U.S. legal system
- That Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), a black Muslim, should not be allowed to sit in Congress because Rep. Ellison insisted on being sworn in with a Quran instead of a Bible and that a person cannot pledge to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Quran
- That morality cannot be maintained without religion
Click on any of the above links and you will find these talking points are directly from Moore’s WorldNetDaily column.
I don’t want to be “that guy”, the stereotypical snobbish Yankee who dismisses Southerners as ignorant. But in 1925, the Tennessee courts couldn’t separate religion from science; almost a hundred years later a former Alabama Chief Justice cannot separate religion from law, so much so that he commissioned a graven image (a violation of the Second Commandment, by the way) of the Ten Commandments.
And this guy is running for Governor of a U.S. state.
While Moore is solidly convinced that he is upholding Christianity, I see his inability to separate religion from law and the most un-Christian thing anyone could possibly do.
Christianity is a unique religion because its founder/prophet Jesus Christ insisted on the separation of human law and divine law, unlike other religions which insist on a direct intertwining between the two. In Matthew 22, verses 15-22, the Pharisees try to trick young Jesus into stating that Israelites should not have to pay taxes to Caesar (the Emperor of Rome, who ruled over Israel at the time) since God rules over all.
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
It is safe to assume that Jesus probably does not approve of U.S. coins, which bear the words “In God We Trust”. Perhaps Moore reads from a different Bible. Since Jesus insists in a separation between human law and divine law, it’s safe to interpret that violations of human law (crimes and torts) should be resolved only in a human court and violation of divine law (sins) should only be resolved by a divine court with God as the only judge. Based on these facts, it is my personal belief that those who attempt to be judges of divine law are committing the most heinous sins of all and will ultimately be sent to Hell.
God never meant for prophets to become involved in politics. If He did, Jesus would’ve been born to a Roman Senator, not a humble carpenter from Nazareth. Jesus would’ve directly challenged King Herod’s throne and even Caesar. It was through voluntary embrace by the Emperor Constantine that the Roman Empire became the first major Christian nation, not by force.
Based on these facts, why does Roy Moore believe he, a human being, is somehow allowed to step on God’s toes and judge against sins in a court of law?
That is the question I have submitted to his campaign.
Why would Moore think his theocracy platform would appeal to Alabama voters when he lost the Governor’s race in 2006 by a 2-1 margin? When that same political platform didn’t work in the 2008 Presidential election? When we are supposedly fighting a group of extremists who believe in the combining of church and state, or rather, mosque and state? More and more Republicans are shying away from pandering to Christian fundamentalists even going as far as changing party affiliations. Republicans gripe about President Obama wasting tax dollars with his stimulus package, but what about all the money wasted legislating Christian morals? Everything from civil unions to FCC censorship on television to banning abortion to banning sex toys (Alabama has a ban on the sale of sex toys) to some states banning female strippers from exposing their nipples.
Of all the troubles plaguing the United States, why does the GOP instead focus on morals? The answer is that many people like Roy Moore believe that the U.S. is in the trouble we’re in because we’ve angered God with our civil unions and Planned Parenthood and electing people named Barrack Hussein Obama. They’re only half right: The United States is in this economic crisis because of a sin few people in this country speak of anymore: gluttony. Lenders giving too much credit to people who use it to buy far more than they can afford living under a government that does far more than it can afford to do as long as China is willing to finance its debt.
The people of Alabama spoke strongly in 2006 by voting down this fascist creep; let’s hope history repeats itself.
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