UPDATED: Roy Moore in 2005: Homosexual Conduct Should Be Illegal Because American Morality Comes From the Bible
Equating Homosexuality With Bestiality Is a ‘Moral Precept Upon Which This Country Was Founded’ Said Moore
The man who very likely will become the next Republican U.S. Senator from Alabama has a long history of anti-gay attacks, but a just-unearthed 2005 interview discovered by CNN reveals the depths that hatred reaches.Â
“Judge” Roy Moore, twice removed as the chief justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court, in that 2005 interview actually claimed that comparing homosexuality to bestiality is one of the “moral precepts” – one of the principles – of American morality, because American morality comes from the Bible.
If you’ve ever heard Roy Moore argue you know following his train of thought is challenging – he jumps all over the place, including comparing homosexuality to bestiality, and saying homosexual “conduct” should be illegal.
Here’s what Moore has to say, in that 2005 interview with Bill Press, then an MSNBC political analyst, on C-SPAN.
“Just because it’s done behind closed doors, it can still be prohibited by state law. Do you know that bestiality, the relationship between man and beast is prohibited in every state?” Moore asks Press, after a lengthy conversation about homosexuality.
“Did I ask you about having sex with a cow?” Press, a bit stunned, asks.
“No you didn’t,” Moore replies.
“Or a horse, or a dog?” Press continues.
“It’s the same thing,” Moore insists.
“No it’s not. You mean homosexuality is same thing as bestiality?” Press asked.
“It is a moral precept upon which this country was founded,” Moore said.
It’s hard to tell exactly what Moore is saying from the transcript, so watch it on C-SPAN (this portion begins at the 7:20 mark, near the end.)
Moore goes on to insist that morality in America “comes from the Bible.”
In an update, CNN adds that a decade later, in 2015, “Moore was asked, ‘Do you still think that homosexuality should be illegal?'”Â
“I think homosexuality should be illegal,” Moore said. “Sodomy was declared illegal by the United States Supreme Court in 1987, it said there was no right under the constitution to enlarge the fundamental rights of homosexuals.”
In the beginning of the 2005 interview Press quotes a portion of Moore’s book.
“You wrote, ‘Homosexual conduct is and has been considered abhorrent, immoral, detestable, a crime against nature, and a violation of the laws of nature and nature’s God upon which the nation and our laws are predicated.'”
Press then asks Moore, “Do you think that homosexuality should be illegal?”
“Homosexuality was illegal in many of the states across this union,” until Lawrence v Texas, Moore replies.
Press goes on to ask Moore, who is not giving him a straight answer, “Do you think that homosexual–homosexuality, or homosexual conduct should be illegal today? That’s a yes or no question,” Press says.
“Homosexual conduct should be illegal, yes,” Moore responds.
CNN notes that “his response to Press’s question is the most explicit answer he has given in public on his beliefs regarding the legality of sexual conduct between gay adults.”
Moore is beating his Republican challenger by 8 – 13 points in statewide polls. The winner of next week’s runoff will face Democratic nominee Doug Jones, who, according to polls, is within the margin of error, just a few points behind both candidates.
Just this past weekend Moore called Native Americans and Asians “reds and yellows,” then defended the racial slurs by claiming they are from the Bible (they’re not.)Â
This article has been updated to include Moore’s 2015 remarks.
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Prominent political strategist James Carville served up some strong language and colorful remarks about President Donald Trump on Super Bowl Sunday.
On his Politicon streaming show, Carville predicted that Trump would get a complete and total “whipping,” and will be “disgraced.”
“You can knock down the East Wing. You can s — — all over the Kennedy Center. It is not gonna do any good, because the country hates you,” he declared. “They literally cannot stand you.”
“My recommendation for everybody that loves the United States, every patriotic American, and every person that is disgusted by a putrid behavior of the United States government, join the party,” Carville continued. “Because it’s coming to an end.”
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“We’re not just gonna win, people. We’re gonna win in ways that you can’t imagine,” the political consultant, author, and a Democratic pundit added. “And not only are we gonna win, we’re gonna watch these sorry, slimy people in an effort to try to save themselves — disgrace themselves, disgrace their families, disgrace their children, their grandchildren, their great grandchildren and everything else.”
Carville also denounced “spineless jellyfish” U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), while praising “these courageous athletes in Italy” at the Olympic Games.
“You see courageous people in the streets of Minneapolis. You’re gonna see courageous people, about a million, show up at the next No Kings rally.”
Carville said he doesn’t “live in an ivory tower,” but rather, walks around and talks to people: “I see the disappointment on faces of people that, for all I know, may have voted for Trump.”
“I’m looking at election results,” he added. “And what I’m watching, entire people that have had an accomplished life, that have had a life of some pride, become Lindsay Graham, the most pliable, malleable person in the history, maybe of U.S. politics.”
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“We’re gonna beat these people,” Carville vowed. “Like, you can’t even believe what is getting ready to happen to them. And then they’re gonna all be disgraced by history.”
“But you know what you can’t steal?” Carville asked. “You cannot steal the heart of the American people. You can’t steal our traditions. You can’t steal our love of progress — and we may make a mistake, but we’re gonna correct it, and you’re gonna get corrected with the mistake.”
He also vowed that “we’re gonna enjoy ourselves in November” when Trump is “disgraced, and all of the acolytes around him will be disgraced even more.”
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Longtime Trump ally and former White House senior counselor to the president, Steve Bannon, is trying to get his 2022 conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress overturned — and now he has the support of Trump’s Department of Justice to back him up.
“DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee,” reports Politico’s Kyle Cheney.
Cheney noted that the DOJ’s motion “has no career prosecutor” listed, only U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. He also reported that the case had been headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The government has determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice,” the motion reads.
Bannon served four months in prison and was released in October 2024. He was found guilty by a jury on two counts of contempt of Congress, the Associated Press reported, “one for refusing to sit for a deposition with the Jan. 6 House Committee and a second for refusing to provide documents related to his involvement Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race.”
He referred to himself as a “political prisoner” when he began serving his sentence.
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Artificial intelligence — and its effects on the workforce and the economy — is a phenomenon about which some Republicans have started to sound the alarm, says Kamala Harris’s 2024 deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty. But the Democratic Party needs to be better prepared, he writes in a New York Times op-ed.
“Being told you have no agency over a force that will reshape your job prospects, your community and your family’s future is a recipe for backlash,” writes Flaherty. “Democrats shouldn’t dismiss that anger. We should be the party that channels it and does something about it.”
“The coming A.I. revolution threatens the urban professional class that constitutes a central pillar of its political coalition — which already seems too small to win a national election,” he warns. “Democrats have a chance to unite the unemployed 25-year-old software engineer in Tucson, Ariz., and the underemployed middle-age autoworker in Detroit in a coalition big enough to win nationally and locally.”
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Flaherty points to the chief executive of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, who “has predicted that artificial intelligence could displace half of all entry-level white collar jobs within five years. Already, layoffs are on the rise. Recent college grads are struggling to find work. And even for those of us fortunate enough to be employed, our retirement savings are increasingly dependent on the fortunes of a small handful of high-growth tech companies.”
Democrats have an opening with A.I., he says. “Americans feel pessimistic about A.I. Polling indicates that they are much more concerned than excited about the increasing use of A.I. in their lives.”
The 2028 elections, “set against the backdrop of discontent with A.I., will provide an opportunity to campaign against Big Tech’s excesses and a Republican Party that has enabled them.”
Flaherty sees A.I. as an opportunity to reimagine America’s “social bargain.” Who’s in charge? Who benefits? Who are we as a nation? He says these are the questions Democrats should be asking — and “letting voters know how we answer them.”
Democrats, he adds, need to “monopolize” the issue of artificial intelligence, “lest we risk losing voters we take for granted.”
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