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Roy Moore, known as the "Ten Commandments Judge" after illegally placing a 5,300 pound granite monument on the rotunda of the state judicial building, announced that he is running for Alabama governor.
Alabama is a very poor state with a terrible educational system. So, is Moore's platform addressing why Alabama is perennially last in almost every category that matters? No, he is promising to bring more God to Alabama.
"I will tell you what I will do. I will defend the right of every citizen ofthis state - including judges, coaches, teachers, city, county and state officials - to acknowledge God as the sovereign source of law, liberty and government."
This is a terribly important campaign issue because (most people don't know this) there is crisis of faith in Alabama. These days, a pious person can't even find a church between Selma and Birmingham. Thank God for Roy Moore, or Alabama would become a Godless pit of immoral heathens.
It's great that Moore is going to help teachers pray. While he's at it, can he get them a pay raise, so the state won't continue to be a national embarrassment and an educational backwater? Red state folks don't like to be called stupid. But exactly how gullible does one have to be to support a candidate promising more God, while the state is falling apart?
With Moore's announcement, we finally know why the stage horse has tried so hard to grab headlines. This was never about his desire to please God, but his very human need to be governor. Moore's ranting is about personal power, not a Higher Power.
3 Comments:
The people of that state are so brainwashed by the right that they voted AGAINST a tax increase on the wealthy, who already pay the lowest rates in the country, because 'it wouldnt be fair to punish people for being successful.' Their being the dumbest state in the union has certainly paid off for the rich republicans in the state. The agenda of the far right is to make the whole nation like alabama.
posted by Anonymous, at
10/04/2005 10:39 PM
It reminds you of pictures of wallace because they have always have that twisted grimmace on their face while pointing the index finger into the air at ostensibly nothing. The finger they REALLY mean is the middle one! Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at
10/05/2005 9:23 AM
Perhaps God will have the same look on His face when He sends all the right wingers straight to Hell.
posted by Matthew, at
10/05/2005 7:39 PM
