Roy Moore

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-18-17
  

  Shame worked in Alabama

  by Tom Nichols

  It helps show us the way to change voters' minds. 

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• 12-14-17
  

  What Else Was Wrong with Roy Moore

  by Greg Bailey

  Like too many white people today, he thinks that the Civil Rights movement only benefitted blacks and other minorities.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  12-13-17
  

  Two maps explain the racial history behind Alabama’s senate vote

  A comparison of the census map of 1860 showing concentration of slaves in Alabama with the votes in the Senate election this week show that Roy Moore’s support was highest in white counties from 1860. 

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  12-5-17
  

  The evangelical slippery slope, from Ronald Reagan to Roy Moore

  by Randall Balmer

  After Reagan (who was divorced) evangelicals stopped talking about divorce.  After Trump and Roy Moore they can’t talk about sexual assault. 

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• 12-8-17
  

  Roy Moore Thinks Families Flourished During Slavery. Why Would He Say Such a Thing?

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Here are the facts.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  12-7-17
  

  Roy Moore Is Strangely Nostalgic for Slavery Days

  by Tim Murphy

  When “families were strong.”

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• 12-7-17
  

  Can a 1903 Supreme Court Case Put Roy Moore in the Senate?

  by David Hosansky

  The case, Giles v. Harris, upheld Alabama’s successful campaign to prevent African Americans from casting ballots despite the constitutional guarantee of the right for black people to vote.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-30-17
  

  Why abortion — not sexual misconduct — is likely to decide the Alabama Senate race

  by Stacie Taranto

  Roy Moore is trying to save himself with a tried and true conservative move: resorting to the politics of abortion.

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• 11-28-17
  

  Worse than Roy Moore?

  by Greg Bailey

  His name was Thomas Heflin. He was Alabama's junior senator in the 1920s.

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• 11-20-17
  

  The Threat of Senate Expulsion Facing Roy Moore is a Real One

  by David Pietrusza

  Both houses of Congress have voted to expel members for sex-related matters.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-19-17
  

  Roy Moore and the revolution to come

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Women are rising. Will they be able to create lasting change?

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• SOURCE: NY Daily News
  11-19-17
  

  It's absurd to place Al Franken in the same frame as monsters like Harvey Weinstein

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  And Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky is in a different category than his alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  11-16-17
  

  Al Franken Could Face an Ethics Committee Investigation

  Here's how that's gone for other Senators.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-15-17
  

  Roy Moore says he’s a ‘witch hunt’ victim

  by Avi Selk

  Tell that to thousands of women killed in real ones.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11-14-17
  

  Did early Christians believe that Mary was a teenager?

  It’s complicated.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-15-17
  

  It’s been 155 years since the Senate expelled a member. Will Roy Moore break the streak?

  by Michael Todd Landis

  The senator they expelled? A proslavery Democrat who recognized Jefferson Davis as the legitimate president of the Confederacy.

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• SOURCE: Children and Youth in History (GMU)
  11-15-17 (accessed)
  

  Why Is Roy Moore in Trouble?

  Because the age of consent laws changed. Here’s the background.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  10-24-17
  

  Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott

  “We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”