Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:54     Subject: Re:Roy Moore the Pedophile
I do think this a fringe element of evangelicals. I grew up in a very Southern Baptist community, was a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and it was absolutely not normal for a 14 year old girl to be dating or courting a 30 something year old man. My mother and father did not allow me to even date boys more than two years older than I was until I went to college, and my husband is within 6 months of my age. My parents and all four of my grandparents are within two years of the same age. You have to go back to my great-grandparent's generation (born in 1870's to 1880's) to find decade or more age differences.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:42     Subject: Re:Roy Moore the Pedophile
To wit: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-brightbill-roy-moore-evangelical-culture-20171110-story.html

We need to talk about the segment of American culture that probably doesn’t think the allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore are particularly damning, the segment that will blanch at only two accusations in the Washington Post expose: He pursued a 14-year-old-girl without first getting her parents’ permission, and he initiated sexual contact outside of marriage. That segment is evangelicalism. In that world, which Moore travels in and I grew up in, 14-year-old girls courting adult men isn’t uncommon.

I use the phrase “14-year-old girls courting adult men,” rather than “adult men courting 14-year-old girls,” for a reason: Evangelicals routinely frame these relationships in those terms. That’s how I was introduced to these relationships as a home-schooled teenager in the 1990s, and it’s the language that my friends and I would use to discuss girls we knew who were in parent-sanctioned relationships with older men.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:41     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Anonymous wrote:How can evangelicals support Moore?! Disgusting! Not very Christian either, unless your Christianity involves deep hypocrisy.

You are forgetting (or not knowing) there is a fundamentalist sect of Christian evangelicalism that does not abhor this type of courtship/marriage to young teenage girls. What they would frown on would be this kind of conduct outside of a marriage, or, as people have already stated, if the older man did so without permission from the teenagers parents.

THIS IS A REAL THING in some parts of evangelical Christianity.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:35     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Anonymous wrote:How can evangelicals support Moore?! Disgusting! Not very Christian either, unless your Christianity involves deep hypocrisy.

As I said very very early on this thread, their need to control women's bodies directs their entire political philosophy to the exclusion of anything and everything else.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:32     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Everyone's read this by now, I assume?

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/gadsden_residents_say_moores_b.html

"Gadsden locals say Moore's predatory behavior at mall, restaurants not a secret"


Too bad the Alabama media didn't follow up on these rumors earlier.


Yes, we would have been spared the spectacle of Moore almost being elected senator. But thank goodness they're doing it now.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:31     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
How can evangelicals support Moore?! Disgusting! Not very Christian either, unless your Christianity involves deep hypocrisy.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:30     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Anonymous wrote:Everyone's read this by now, I assume?

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/gadsden_residents_say_moores_b.html

"Gadsden locals say Moore's predatory behavior at mall, restaurants not a secret"


Too bad the Alabama media didn't follow up on these rumors earlier.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:25     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
So leaving aside the question of whether Roy Moore actually forced himself on a series of teenagers and was so creepy that security had to follow him around the mall - what do yo think is going to happen with the Alabama senate race?

Is he going to win still? By how much? And what happens after that?

My pessimistic side says he still wins, and just exacerbates the current sh*tshow in Washington - with the end result being one I like: that it strengthens Dems' chances in 2018.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:16     Subject: Re:Roy Moore the Pedophile
Jesus Christ, you bible thumping fool, just drop out already.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:14     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Anonymous wrote:Not one single police report. Not one.


Women are explaining to you how difficult and complex this issue is. Your grandmother, your mother, your 2 sisters, your aunt. Statistically at leasst one of these have been a victim. And more than likely keeping it a secret. You don’t want to listen to women who have been through a sexual assault and try to understand why molestation goes unreported? Fine, then STFU. The time for men to tell women how the should feel and how they should behave when they are violated is over. We’ll take it from here.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:01     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not one single police report. Not one.


Seriously? Have you ever been groped or harassed? Have you ever lived in a tiny town? This isn't something most women who are harassed end up doing, they do not go to the police. Again, do some research on why.


The latest has something better. Roy Moore signed her yearbook and signed it with "love"!
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 10:01     Subject: Re:Roy Moore the Pedophile
Why, look at that gentleman in the Sears suit and Thom McCann shoes having a leisurely stroll around the mall! I a-swear he could be a SenaTUH of these here United States of America someday. Or why even Chief Justice of our state’s highest court. Oh myyyyyy.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 09:48     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Everyone's read this by now, I assume?

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/gadsden_residents_say_moores_b.html

"Gadsden locals say Moore's predatory behavior at mall, restaurants not a secret"
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 09:42     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
My favorite is that guy who defended him by referencing Mary and Joseph in the Bible. I was done after that. I mean, really???
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2017 09:40     Subject: Roy Moore the Pedophile
Anonymous wrote:Not one single police report. Not one.


Seriously? Have you ever been groped or harassed? Have you ever lived in a tiny town? This isn't something most women who are harassed end up doing, they do not go to the police. Again, do some research on why.