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Senate Candidate Says Americans ‘Too Interested in Homosexual Activities’ Instead of ‘Good TV Shows’ Like ‘Gunsmoke’

The Alabama Secretary of State running for the Republican nomination to fill the U.S. Senate currently held by Democratic U.S. Senator Doug Jones blasted Americans for being “too interested in homosexual activities,” while lamenting the lack of “good” TV shows like “Gunsmoke” and “I Love Lucy.”
John Merrill, clearly seeking to ride on President Donald Trump’s coattails, hoping for days that never really happened, spoke to supporters on Saturday at the Dekalb County Republican Breakfast Club meeting.
He attributed cultural shifts in America, Yellowhammer News reports, to pop culture.
“How have we allowed it to happen?” Merrill asked. “There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested in homosexual activities. We’re too interested in seeing how this family’s finding a way to mess on this family or to see how people are trying to date on TV, or having wife-swapping on TV. That’s what we watch. When we push back against that, and we quit allowing it to be in our homes – that’s how those changes have occurred because we’ve allowed them to slowly but surely come into our lives.”
In 2010 Merrill reportedly had an “extramarital sexual encounter“ with the wife of a friend.
Merrill doubled-down in his criticisms in an interview Monday night with AL.com.
“The foundational principles which we have grown up as a nation are no more,” Merrill said, adding that there are no longer shows “that are based on biblical foundations,” or “that promote family and culture with a father, a mother and children based on biblical teachings and biblical principles on which our nation was founded.”
America was not, in fact, founded on “biblical teachings and biblical principles.”
Merrill is running against twice-failed, twice-former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who was credibly accused of sexual misconduct including alleged child sex abuse. Other candidates include U.S. Congressman Bradley Byrne and former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville.
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