You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor
Why is there suddenly so much noise about Roy Moore, Republican Senate Candidate from Alabama, in the media? It’s not about allegations of supposed “sexual abuse” 40 years ago, as the political establishment and mainstream media would have you believe. It’s because of the monument in the picture, or rather what the monument stands for.
I’ve been following Roy Moore since he appeared on the show “Hardball with Chris Matthews” in March of 2005. Chris Matthews had Mr. Moore on his show, and generally treated Mr. Moore rather amicably (Mathews was more neutral back then … he has taken a hard left, politically, since that time), shortly after Mr. Moore’s book, So Help Me God, was published.
Roy Moore is famous for having been elected, twice, to the the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama; and also for having been removed, twice, from the same. The first time Moore was removed was because of the monument. It’s a 2.5 ton granite monument with the Ten Commandments engraved on top and numerous quotations from founding documents and the founders of the United States, which demonstrate that the United States legal system was founded on the moral basis of belief in God, the Creator of the universe and Author of the Ten Commandments. Chief Justice Moore had the Ten Commandments monument placed in the Alabama Supreme Court building. A United States federal court ordered the monument removed, and Chief Justice Moore refused to do so, and so Chief Justice Moore was removed from office in 2003. In 2013, Roy Moore was again elected to the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. He was removed again in 2016 for refusing to obey the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage.
Roy Moore is being publicly castigated by the political establishment and mainstream media not because of flimsy allegations of sexual misconduct 40 years ago, but rather because he is very outspoken about his conviction that faith in God and the moral laws of the Bible comprise the moral basis of the founding of the United States and its legal system. Mr. Moore’s conviction that, “We must return God to our public life and restore the moral foundation of our law,” is the reason he has become a target for destruction by the political establishment. All the noise about sexual abuse is a dishonest smoke screen and diversion from the real motivation behind the attack.
Let’s look at the allegations of sexual misconduct.
40 Years Without Even a Hint of Dirt!
First, consider the context of the entire life of Roy Moore. The alleged misconduct supposedly happened FORTY YEARS AGO. That means that the big political machine that went searching for dirt on Roy Moore could not find even a hint of dirt against the man in the last 40 years! Think about that, and let that sink in. Who among us can confidently claim that, in the last 40 years, there is nothing in our private or public lives that would cause us shame if it were publicized? (If you think you can make that claim, stop reading now, because you are being dishonest, and we have nothing left to discuss.)
Flimsy Allegations
Dishonest publications like the Washington Post and New York Times have falsely accused Moore in saying that nine women have accused him of wrongdoing. That’s not true. Only three women have accused Moore of any actual wrongdoing. The other six allege merely that Roy Moore dated younger women. That is not immoral. For a man to have romantic interest in a woman much younger than he is may be socially unacceptable in our current culture. But it has not been so in most cultures throughout the history of the world. It is not a moral issue. So there are only three actual accusations of moral wrongdoing. Let’s examine each one.
Leigh Corfman alleges that, when she was 14 years old, Moore, then allegedly 32, touched her “over” her bra and underpants and that she touched him “over” his underwear. She also alleges that she felt uncomfortable, and she asked Moore to take her home. According to her allegation, Moore then immediately took her home. First of all, Ms. Corfman’s allegation that Mr. Moore immediately took her home upon request does not describe abusive or predatory behavior. Second, the allegation doesn’t make sense. Who takes off all clothes except underwear and touches “over” underwear? If sex was the game, wouldn’t they have been touching under underwear, not over? Third, Corfman hasn’t mentioned a word of this in 40 years. Roy Moore was an Assistant District Attorney in her hometown, then a judge in her hometown, then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court twice in her home state. He even ran for Governor. Why did Corfman never bring this up before? Why now? It doesn’t pass the smell test. Corfman is from a broken home and a troubled childhood. Perhaps she imagined the alleged encounter with Moore. She is known to have serious financial difficulties, including personal bankruptcy and currently owing the IRS over $100,000. Furthermore, she is alleged to have brought false sexual abuse charges against several other men. Each time a court has thrown out her charges as not credible. Corfman’s accusation against Roy Moore is not credible. It appears she’s doing this for a chance to get publicity and possibly money. I don’t believe the accusation.
Beverly Young Nelson alleges that Moore “tried” to force her to perform a sexual act on him when he was 30 and she was 16. This allegation does not make sense. Moore is an Army veteran. He is a graduate of the U.S. West Point Military Academy. He served in Vietnam. Moore also was a semi-professional boxer at the time. If 30 year-old Moore had wanted to force himself on 16 year-old Nelson, he would have done more than just “tried”. He would have succeeded. Furthermore, Nelson claims to have Roy Moore’s signature in her high school yearbook, but experts who have seen the pictures of it have given their opinion that it looks forged. Roy Moore’s lawyer has asked for the yearbook to subject it to testing by experts, but Nelson’s lawyer has refused this request, giving further evidence that Nelson’s accusation against Moore appears to be false. I don’t know what Nelson’s motivation is with this allegation, but it does not pass the smell test. I don’t believe the accusation.
Tina Johnson alleges that Moore grabbed her butt in his office, with her mother and her children with her and in close proximity. This allegation, again coming out decades later, is so absurd that it’s difficult to imagine anybody taking it seriously. Johnson, like Corfman, has severe financial problems and needs money. Her motive, like Corfman’s, appears to be to try to get a little temporary publicity and money out of smearing Roy Moore’s good name.
Gravitas?
As I’ve noted, I don’t believe the accusations against Roy Moore, and I’ve tried to explain the reasoning for my conclusion above. But, for the sake of argument, let’s suppose the accusations against Moore are true. The worst of the accusations are: (i) he touched a girl “over” her bra and underwear and then took her home immediately when she requested; (ii) he “tried” — but failed to get a young women to do a sexual act on him; (iii) he grabbed a woman’s butt; oh and (iv) he liked to date younger women. (By the way, Roy Moore’s wife of over 30 years is 12 years younger than he is.) Three of the accusations date back 40 years, and the butt grabbing allegation dates back 30 years. Again, I don’t believe the accusations, but even if they are true, that means that Roy Moore has been squeaky clean for 30 or 40 years! Are these flimsy accusations about alleged misconduct 40 years ago serious enough to prevent Roy Moore from taking a seat in the United States Senate, if elected? Of course not. Something else is going on here.
Atheism vs. Christianity
What’s going on is that the political establishment is castigating and blackballing Roy Moore because of his Christian beliefs.
There is fight going on for the soul of America, as well as for the future of the United States and the world. The fight is more clearly on display in the Republican party than anywhere else. The Democratic party is easy to understand. They want to promote atheism. They want to normalize homosexuality. They want to destroy traditional American values. They want to tax heavily. They want to provide enormous amounts of social welfare. They want huge, powerful government bureaucracies. They want to erode national and religious allegiances and blend the United States into a one-world government controlled by the big banks and multinational corporations. That’s all simple and easy to understand. Nothing very interesting going on there. The Republican party is where the action is in terms of the fight for the future.
There are three types of “conservatives” that tend to align with the Republican party: (i) fiscal conservatives, who want to stop the U.S. government’s insane tax and spend addiction into astronomical debt and economic stagnation; (ii) Constitutional conservatives, who want the United States to return not only to following its founding legal document but also to the founding principles which the founders articulated in the Federalist Papers, among other documents; and (iii) Christian conservatives, who want the United States to return to faith in God and the moral basis of its founding and legal system, which was the moral code of the Bible, especially as summarized in the Ten Commandments. (Of course, there is a fourth category of “Republicans,” who are Republicans in Name Only — RINOs — who are no different than Democrats. Mitch McConnell obviously is in this category. If there ever was someone not to trust, it is McConnell.)
Don’t be stupid. The public castigation of Roy Moore by Mitch McConnell and other Washington, D.C. elites has nothing to do with flimsy accusations of sexual misconduct 40 years ago. That’s a smokescreen to divert from the actual motivation. It has everything to do with Roy Moore’s steadfast conviction that, “We must return God to our public life and restore the moral foundation of our law.” It’s all about the Ten Commandments.
