After Hollywood
producer Harvey Weinstein was finally publicly outed after decades of alleged
sexual abuses toward women, a #metoo hashtag formed and a dam broke.
Suddenly it seemed
that every time we turned on our computers, every time we received a phone
alert, it was yet another man outed as an abuser.
The worst of the worst of sexual abusers,
though, are those who abuse children. Roy Moore, the right-wing Christian
nut-job who’s running for Senate in Alabama has been accused of doing just
that.
Five
women have now come
forward alleging that Moore “dated” them and worse while they were teens and he
was in his 30s.
This all began almost a year to the day after an audio tape of Donald
Trump bragging about how he’s such a big star he can just grab women’s pussies.
Is it possible, though, that Trump is as bad, if not worse, than Moore?
They have invoked the Bible, saying that the Virgin Mary was a
teenager when Jesus was born.
Of course, much like they forget the “well regulated militia”
part of the Second Amendment, these men who would slut shame their own sisters
if they were Democrats who wanted birth control, suddenly forgot the first part
of Mary’s moniker.
They also defended Moore by saying that he was just a fragile
young buck of 32, who couldn’t have possibly known better, while his alleged
victims were well on their way to adulthood at 14 and 16.
Donald Trump has been
surprisingly mum about the Moore allegations, but spokesperson Kellyanne Conway carefully straddled the line by saying
that “if” the allegations were true, Moore should resign.
Trump, though, had something interesting to say about the
subject of statutory rape three years ago.
In a tweet, Trump called it “talent” to “date” a woman who’s
young enough to be his daughter. Note: he was married to Melania at the time.
This wasn’t the first
time Trump expressed interest in young girls. At least twice, Trump was heard
saying that he would soon be dating girls who, at the time, were very
underaged.
Donald
Trump once told 14-year-old girls, 'In a couple of years, I'll be dating
you' http://lat.ms/2e1pEU3 4:52 PM -
Oct 13, 2016
In 1992, he said about
a 10-year-old girl that he would be “dating her in 10 years.” Here’s the video:
All of this, of course, was out there before
the election and Trump voters didn’t care. Trump voters in Alabama don’t care
about the allegations against Moore either.
A poll taken after the accusations began to
surface showed Moore with a 10 point lead against his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones.
If we haven’t thrown in the moral towel as a
country, Republicans certainly have. Jerry Falwell’s moral majority has turned
into an immoral minority of right-wing ideologues who would pimp out their own
daughters if it meant putting another Republican in Congress.
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