Notorious homophobe Roy Moore is at it again.
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who will once again run for the US Senate in 2020, has called for a return to a “moral” time where same-sex marriage and gay sex are illegal in a speech to the Huntsville Republican Men’s Breakfast Group.
“We have got to go back to what we did back in the sixties and seventies back to a moral basis… We had abortion laws in our country and our state,” he said.
“We did not have same sex marriage. We did not have transgender rights. Sodomy was illegal. These things were just not around when my classmates and I went to West Point and Vietnam.”
He continued: “We [now] have drag queens teaching kindergarten children in this state and this community… in Huntsville in Mobile they taught kids and they dress them up in drag.
“Where does this come from? Gender identity is being taught in California to young kids and parents have no choice but to let their kids be taught that.”
Moore lost his run for Senate in 2017, following a campaign plagued with scandals including accusations of sexual assault and child molestation, which he denied.
He has consistently caused controversy for his questionable views – he once compared sex between two consenting adults of the same sex to bestiality during a 2005 interview.
“Homosexual conduct should be illegal,” he said. “Just because it’s done behind closed doors, it can still be prohibited by state law. Do you know that bestiality, the relationship between man and beast, is prohibited in every state?”
A decade later, in 2015, Moore suggested being forced to follow the Supreme Court’s marriage equality ruling was the equivalent of being forced to kill people under immoral German laws in World War II.
“Could I do this if I were in Nuremberg, say that I was following the orders of the highest authority to kill Jews?” he asked. “Could I say I was ordered to do so?”
He also suggested that the legalisation of same-sex marriage across the United States was “even worse” than than the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford decision to uphold slavery.
