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Roy Moore Proves the Moral Bankruptcy of the Religious Right
Religious right leaders who haven't come out against Roy Moore—such as Tony Perkins and Sandy Rios—are
more about the politics than Christian love.
significant and politically active right-wing evangelical Christian leaders have either maintained silence or defended Moore in the wake of allegations that he assaulted two teenage girls when he was in his 30s, and pursued “relationships” with an additional three teenagers.
At the Values Voter Summit hosted last month by FRC Action, the political arm of the Family Research Council, Moore was presented as a star to a conference audience of right-wing Christian political activists, who cheered him with gusto.
Yet not a peep has been heard from Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. Not a word about Moore appears in recent posts on either the Family Research Council or FRC Action websites, the latter of which still shows a press release announcing FRC Action’s endorsement of Moore.
American Family Association official Sandy Rios defended Moore. Speaking on her radio program, Rios said, according to Right Wing Watch,
“Honestly, do you think there’s a person alive on the planet—certainly, I’ll limit it a little bit, I will say any man listening to my voice—that doesn’t have something in his past, in his box of secrets, that he’s ashamed of sexually?” Rios asked.
(yep, every man is just a slimy as Moore, all are pedophiles and sexual abusers
If there were any doubt that religious-right leaders such as Perkins and Rios are more about the politics than Christian love, their respective silence on or defense of Moore lays that doubt to rest.
As Moore himself told the Values Voter Summit audience in a verse he penned himself,
“You think that God’s not angry that our land’s a moral slum? How much longer will it be before his judgment comes?”
“Especially, let’s just say, beginning in the ’60s.” (
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