Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn’t run for office

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Alabama Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore co-authored a study course, published in 2011 and recently obtained by ThinkProgress, that instructs students that women should not be permitted to run for elected office. If women do run for office, the course argues, people have a moral obligation not to vote for them. The course is also critical of the women’s suffrage movement, which in 1920 secured some American women the right to vote.

The curriculum was a product of Vision Forum, a now-defunct Texas-based evangelical organization headed by Doug Phillips, which taught “Biblical patriarchy”, a theology that prescribes strict, unequal gender roles for men and women. According a statement on the Vision Forum’s website, “Egalitarian feminism is a false ideology that has bred false doctrine in the church and seduced many believers.”

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Moore’s lecture, which is included in the “Law and Government” curriculum, was recorded in 2008 at one such “school”, and hosted and facilitated by Phillips himself. In the speech, Moore recounts his fight over the Ten Commandments monument and bemoans the arrival of marriage equality, which the California Supreme Court had approved two weeks prior.

He also openly praises both Phillips and Vision Forum, saying, “As I think about what’s going on here at Vision Forum and what Doug’s doing and has done, I’m a little envious because I admire Doug and the fact he can round up these young men that are going to make a difference in our nation.”

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Vision Forum closed in 2013 after Phillips resigned, having admitted to a “lengthy” and “inappropriately romantic and affectionate” relationship with a woman who was not his wife. Shortly thereafter, that woman, Lourdes Torres-Manteufel, sued Phillips and Vision Forum, detailing an emotionally, psychologically, and sexually abusive relationship that started when she was just 15 years old.

https://thinkprogress.org/moore-study-course-vison-forum-135402ed8816/

Nothing about this sounds familiar.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

You'd think the jaw dropping would stop at some point.

 

[Beer With Straw]

I'm kinda' speechless sorry, just a link.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasac...r-the-sexual?utm_term=.ad9jG6JOoP#.prORrdZ1Yl

Sorry, multi tasking.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

You'd think the jaw dropping would stop at some point.

I'm just going to keep my jaw on the floor from now on. Less work each day.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Yeah. Well. Molesting children and likely still becoming a US Senator is pretty much my political Sandy Hook so, you'll excuse me if I don't bat an eye.

 

[RavenSky]

I'm kinda' speechless sorry, just a link.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/briannasac...r-the-sexual?utm_term=.ad9jG6JOoP#.prORrdZ1Yl

Sorry, multi tasking.

Roy Moore Just Blamed His Sexual Misconduct Allegations On Lesbians, Gays, And Socialists.

Speaking from a church pulpit in Alabama, the Republican Senate candidate said the "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...socialists" are behind the "malicious" allegations against him.

As an aside, Moore is a dominionist

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Yeah. Well. Molesting children and likely still becoming a US Senator is pretty much my political Sandy Hook so, you'll excuse me if I don't bat an eye.

Well that will help save your jaw some.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Great. There's another 5% bump for Moore in the polls.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Great. There's another 5% bump for Moore in the polls.

Probably.