Roy Moore: ‘I’m a Christian. I Don’t Hate People’

‘I Don’t Hate People. I’m a Christian. I Don’t Hate People’ Moore Says, Despite All Evidence to the Contrary

GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore is in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to lunch with Republicans on Capitol Hill and attend a policy meeting. The twice-former Alabama state Supreme Court chief justice told reporters he is unhappy with how the media treats him, claims he has been misportrayed, and insisted he does not hate people.

“I don’t hate people. I’m a Christian. I don’t hate people,” Moore said, according to Talking Points Memo. 

Moore, who is running against Democrat Doug Jones for the seat formerly held by Jeff Sessions, was asked if he stands by his statements in which he said “homosexual conduct” should be illegal.

“I’m not answering any questions on issues right now,” Moore replied, as NBC News’ Frank Thorpe V reported. 

Asked if he still believes Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison should still not be allowed to serve in Congress because he is Muslim, Moore similarly refused to answer.

“I’ll address that later,” he said.

Moore, as TPM noted, also told reporters, “I’m a lot different than how the Washington Post is portraying me, that’s for sure.”

He also at one point seemed to backtrack from his long-held position that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress because the Quran and the Constitution are incompatible. 

“There should be no religious test,” Moore told TPM.

Moore may claim that he doesn’t hate people, but his actions over the years say otherwise.

Just yesterday Moore called for the impeachment of the federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers.

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision finding same-sex couples have a right to marry, “Judge” Moore called court rulings supporting marriage equality “tyranny,” said he would not follow them, and even claimed they do not apply to him. In 2014 Moore said the intent of same-sex marriage is to destroy America, and claimed the First Amendment applies only to Christians.

Moore has claimed same-sex marriage could lead to men marrying their daughters.

He ordered all Alabama judges to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples – after the Supreme Court’s 2016 Obergefell ruling. 

And Moore has repeatedly appeared with a Christian pastor who says gays are “worthy of death.”

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