UnMoored

Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in today’s Alabama special election, is credibly accused of sexually preying upon a 14-year-old girl and forcing himself upon a 16-year-old girl as a thirtysomething prosecutor. He is uniquely disqualified from public office separate and apart from those terrible misdeeds.

He was twice removed as chief justice of his state’s highest court for disrespecting the rule of law: in 2003, for disobeying an order to remove a monument of the 10 Commandments; in 2016, for directing probate judges to ignore a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

In an interview this year, Moore said Ronald Reagan’s famous declaration that the Soviet Union was “the focus of evil in the modern world” should now apply here — because “we promote a lot of bad things” like “same-sex marriage.”

Also this year, Moore suggested that 9/11 was punishment from God. He cited Isaiah 30:12-13, “Because you have despised His word and trust in perverseness and oppression . . . therefore this iniquity will be to you as a breach ready to fall, swell out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instance” — and added: “Sounds a little bit like the Pentagon, whose breaking came suddenly at an instance, doesn’t it?”

A supposed believer in the Constitution, Moore flagrantly disregards Article VI, Section 3 — which says “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office.” After the 2006 election of Rep. Keith Ellison, a Muslim, Moore wrote, “Congress has the authority and should act to prohibit Ellison from taking the congressional oath today!”

In a 2011 radio interview, Moore said that scrapping all constitutional amendments after the first 10 would “eliminate many problems.” “Problems” like ending slavery; voting rights for blacks or women; equal protection under the law.

This year, asked when America was last great, Moore answered, “when our families were united — even though we had slavery.”

Care about none of this, but only about public corruption? Despite stating that he didn’t take a salary from a small charity, Moore actually pocketed $180,000 annually — adding up to more than $1 million between 2007 and 2012.

Even if Alabama voters refuse to believe the women accusing Moore of misbehavior, they should judge him unfit for the U.S. Senate.