Friday, November 17, 2017

Alabama Voters Will Decide Roy Moore’s Fate - Donald V. Watkins

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Alabama Voters Will Decide Roy Moore's Fate
By Donald V. Watkins
©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on November 17, 2017
Yesterday, the Alabama Republican Party issued a statement of support for embattled U.S. Senate nominee Roy Moore. In doing so, the state GOP's leadership disregarded sexual abuse allegations involving Moore from nine different women. All but one of the women was a young teenager at the time of Moore's inappropriate sexual encounters with them.
Moore has categorically denied the sexual abuse charges. Yet, he has not specifically addressed each incident of abuse. Instead, Moore and his "Evangelical Christian" base of supporters have attacked the women who have bravely stepped forward to tell their stories of Moore's sexual abuse.
I believe the women in Moore's case. Their stories are more credible than Moore's denials.
I believe the women in Bill Cosby's sexual abuse case for the same reason. I also believe the women in Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault cases. I believe the teenage victims in Anthony Weiner's sexting case. I believe Megan Rondini's rape allegations against Terry Jackson "Sweet T" Bunn, Jr. Finally, I believe the female victim in Senator Al Franken's sexual abuse case.
In all of these tragic cases, the men involved seemed to think they were God's gift to young girls and women. All of these sexual abusers have a cult following that will suspend the reality of their misconduct in order to support them.
I do not engage in situational ethics or selective law enforcement in which certain conduct is either "okay" or "wrong", depending upon the perpetrator's political party affiliation or his socio-economic station in life. In my book, right is right and wrong is wrong.
The sexual molestation of a young child, teenager, or grown woman is wrong. There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of deviant behavior. The perpetrator in a sexual molestation case should go to Hell, not the U.S. Senate.
Many National Republican Party leaders and members, including Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, view Roy Moore as totally "unfit" to serve in the Senate. I concur in this view.
President Donald Trump, who was elected in 2016 after an audiotape captured him bragging about grabbing "beautiful" women with "big phony tits" and "good legs" by their "pussy" and "kissing them" without warning or permission, has distanced himself from any condemnation of Roy Moore's reported sexual molestation conduct. I understand why.
Beyond Senator Shelby and State Representative Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham), no elected official in Alabama has shown the courage to stand up for the sexual abuse victims who have stepped forward in Moore's case.
For the most part, Alabama's religious leaders have embarrassed themselves and their churches by remaining silent on Moore's sexual abuse case. Incredibly, one of their flock (i.e., state auditor Jm Ziegler) tried to justify Moore's misconduct by inappropriately comparing it to the Biblical story of Mary and Joseph.
December 12, 2017, will be a defining moment in history for Alabama voters. In the wake of Governor Robert Bentley's disgraceful "sex for power" scandal and his resignation in April, will voters knowingly elect a "creepy", "icky", "Bible-thumping" sexual molester to the U.S. Senate?
Will women voters flex their political muscle to prevent the election of Roy Moore now that he has been "outed" as a serial child molester?
Finally, will voters rise up to protect our daughters from a politically powerful sexual predator who appears to be accountable to no one in Alabama?
If it is the intent of Alabama voters to "drain the swamp" in Washington, we should start with the defeat of Roy Moore at the polls in Alabama.


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