Alabama Pastor Says Roy Moore’s Accusers Are Getting Paid ‘Healthy Sum,’ and Besides, ‘Some 14 Year Olds…Could Pass for 20’

“Wise said he would support Moore even if the allegations were true and the candidate was proved to have sexually molested teenage girls and women.”

Pastors across the South are coming to Roy Moore‘s defense, and they’re fighting back by attacking the women who are accusing him of child sexual assault, sexual assault, pursuing teen girls, and inappropriate sexual behavior. 

“I don’t know how much these women are getting paid, but I can only believe they’re getting a healthy sum,” pastor Earl Wise, of Millbrook, Alabama, told The Boston Globe.

“There ought to be a statute of limitations on this stuff,” Wise said. “How these gals came up with this, I don’t know. They must have had some sweet dreams somewhere down the line.”

“Plus,” Wise said, “there are some 14-year-olds, who, the way they look, could pass for 20.”

The Globe notes, “Wise said he would support Moore even if the allegations were true and the candidate was proved to have sexually molested teenage girls and women.”

Citing The Public Religion Research Institute, The Globe notes that just six years ago – which happens to be when Barack Obama was president – “just 30 percent of white evangelical Protestants believed an elected official ‘who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties’ as a public servant.”

“In 2016, that number skyrocketed to 72 percent.”

Needless to say, Pastor Wise was far from the only Southern pastor coming to Moore’s defense.

Pastor Franklin Raddish of South Carolina told The Globe that for 40 years, “these women didn’t say a word. They were cool as a cucumber.”

“You’re asking me to believe them,’’ Raddish added, “when their own mother didn’t have enough red blood in her to . . . go and report this? Come on.”

The Globe reports it called dozens of pastors listed in the now-infamous Moore letter of support. It reached “nearly ten” pastors. None “said the allegations of sexual misconduct changed their views about Moore. Several said the allegations made them more proud to vote for the former judge.”

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