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Christian Support for Roy Moore ‘Looks Like Hypocrisy to the Outside World’
The Atlantic ^ | 11/24/2017 | Emma Green

Posted on 11/24/2017 7:39:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Before this month, Roy Moore was best known nationally for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama state supreme-court building. Now, the aspiring senator is accused of hitting on teens at an Alabama mall and inappropriately touching a 14-year-old girl.

These allegations may be the end of Moore. Congressional Republicans have started disowning him, and he’s tentatively dropping in state polls. But it’s possible that the reputation of evangelical Christians will also suffer. Despite condemnations from a number of nationally prominent Christian leaders and a few in Alabama, many of the state’s faithful continue to back the controversial candidate.

To outsiders, the support might seem like a stark contradiction in values. Even to insiders, it can seem that way. “I’m … bothered,” wrote William S. Brewbaker III, a law professor at the University of Alabama, in The New York Times, “by what Mr. Moore’s popularity says about the sorry state of evangelical Christianity.”

The Moore scandal is part of a long history of complicated sexual politics in the Christian world. In her new book, Moral Combat, the Washington University in St. Louis professor Marie Griffith writes about American Christians’ battles over sexual harassment, birth control, and gender roles. This fall’s wave of sexual-assault accusations has often seemed to echo the past, bringing to mind Anita Hill’s accusations about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Paula Jones’s allegations against former President Bill Clinton. Incidents like these, Griffith writes, all get tied up in the distinctive sexual politics of the Christian world.

The book—which covers much more than sexual-harassment scandals, including everything from Margaret Sanger’s legacy at Planned Parenthood to Alfred Kinsey’s obsession with clergy—comes out in December. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; christians; hypocrisy; roymoore
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To: jimfree

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The Atlantic is definitely outside of the Real world.
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61 posted on 11/24/2017 10:38:50 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Jim Noble

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>> “When a brother is a young man and seeking a virtuous wife, we do not shun him for courting women of marriageable age.” <<

And that is exactly what they are condemning!

Normal sexuality just isn’t politically correct is this era of “gender.”
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62 posted on 11/24/2017 10:42:30 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: kjam22

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>> “To begin with we don’t know for sure what the truth is about 40 years ago” <<

Well, we do know that Gloria All Red’s “evidence” is 100% forged.
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63 posted on 11/24/2017 10:45:25 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Agree


64 posted on 11/24/2017 10:48:27 AM PST by kjam22 (Ken James)
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To: DouglasKC

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>> “We know that even if the worst of these allegations are true that amounts to practically nothing.” <<

Nothing but a peek at Deep South culture, and that is why Moore’s support is zooming through the stratosphere where it matters: In Alabama!
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65 posted on 11/24/2017 10:49:30 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is pretty simple for me. There is nothing immoral about dating a woman above the age of consent, and I think the two accusers who claim he pushed them to engage in sexual activities underage are lying.

Why? Because the underage accusations don’t match the behavior described by the older girls, and because a pedophile doesn’t just stop being a pedophile. If he had been a pedophile 40 years ago, he would still be acting as one. Thus...the accusers are lying.

That, plus I reject the “right” of ANYONE to make an accusation 40 years after the alleged deed. Such accusations are impossible to defend against, no matter how innocent the accused may be.


66 posted on 11/24/2017 10:51:31 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: SeekAndFind
Riiight...I'm going to made to feel guilty by the Christian hating media like the Atlantic. Who on earth would we ever vote for then if we can only vote for perfection? Maybe that is what the left hopes we do - stop voting.
67 posted on 11/24/2017 11:03:01 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: SeekAndFind
This witch is clearly not a Christian herself, and apparently knows nothing. First, MOORE DID NOTHING WRONG. Every forgery, every false witness, every lie about a situation, institution or building has been proven to be utterly FALSE.

Second, in Christianity, we have the concept of REPENTANCE. Not saying I was, but if I was a philandering Ted-Kennedy-type scum 40 years ago, but turned my life around and lived a righteous life since that, that counts for something to Christendom, and to the Lord Jesus Christ.

So sick of these Progressives trying to tell me what MY religion entails.

68 posted on 11/24/2017 4:28:15 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ( DJT won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of MAGA. Civil war before we get more?)
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To: Bryan24

AMEN to all from a fellow Christian and fellow Alabamian who’s voting Moore on Dec 12th!


69 posted on 11/24/2017 4:40:30 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ( DJT won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of MAGA. Civil war before we get more?)
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