Roy Moore: I may have dated teenagers

Thing1 said:
Man, you guys really have no self-awareness. What has been the response of you, NOVA and just about every other rightie? CLINTON!!!!
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Very appropriately, given the ginned-up faux moral outrage of the left. Liberal hypocrisy is hard to miss given the parallels. If that triggers you, too bad.

Its hilarious to see DEMOCRATS swallowing unproven allegations of sexual misconduct so avidly when they continue to be skeptical of the women who accused their guy.

You don't see it?
 
‘Everyone thought it was weird’: Deputy DA who served with Moore confirms ‘he dated high school girls’

According to a series of tweets from CNN senior national correspondent Alexander Marquardt, a Florida attorney who served as a deputy district attorney alongside Roy Moore has come forward to allege inappropriate behavior from the Republican senate nominee.

“It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls, everyone we knew thought it was weird,” former Deputy DA Theresa Jones reportedly told CNN. “We wondered why someone his age would hang out at high school football games and the mall.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/eve...-school-girls/
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Roy Moore blasted by woman's lawyer: 'He knows full well' why the women kept quiet

The lawyer for a woman who says Moore dated her when she was 18 and he was in his 30s and supplied her with alcohol before she was of legal drinking age responded later Saturday to the candidate's comments. Paula Cobia, lawyer for Gloria Deason, blasted Moore for making what she called "defamatory statements" about "4 brave women."

"He knows full well why these women did not tell what he did to them before this week," Cobia wrote in a statement posted on Facebook on Saturday. "As young teenage girls in the late 1970s in a small, rural southern town, they had no way of knowing their rights, especially against him considering that he was a district attorney at the time."

continued http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roy-...xual-misconduct-allegations/story?id=51083664
 
Brad said:
No, my only issue with the matter is that I believe there is something mentally wrong with a man who is seeking out teenagers to date when he is in his 30s.
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Is that so, Brad?

So an adult - defined as a person over the age of 18 - is wrong to allegedly have any contact of a romantic or possibly sexual nature with someone under the statutory age only if said adult is over 30?

Is that your position, Brad?
 
Cypress said:
Roy Moore blasted by woman's lawyer: 'He knows full well' why the women kept quiet

The lawyer for a woman who says Moore dated her when she was 18 and he was in his 30s and supplied her with alcohol before she was of legal drinking age responded later Saturday to the candidate's comments. Paula Cobia, lawyer for Gloria Deason, blasted Moore for making what she called "defamatory statements" about "4 brave women." "He knows full well why these women did not tell what he did to them before this week," Cobia wrote in a statement posted on Facebook on Saturday. "As young teenage girls in the late 1970s in a small, rural southern town, they had no way of knowing their rights, especially against him considering that he was a district attorney at the time."
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What a shocker. An accuser's lawyer is blasting the accused. That just never happens, does it? :rofl2:
 
This is the logic of the left?

Paula Jones
Juanita Broaddrick
Kathleen Willey
Eileen Wellstone
Carolyn Moffet
Elizabeth Ward Gracen
Becky Brown
Helen Dowdy
Cristy Zercher

Not brave women, and aren't credible because they waited decades to come forward.

Gloria Deason - brave woman who is totally credible because she waited decades to come forward.


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Has Paula Cobia "blasted" Zappacrite's arguments?

ZappasGuitar said:
"But you DON'T have a right to wait 20+ years, until it is politically advantageous, to raise your voice." A pity not a one of those women came forward AT THE TIME OF THE ALLEGED ASSAULT to make their claims.
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ZappasGuitar said:
Every single report of "assault" came YEARS later. NOT A ONE was immediately reported to the proper authorities.
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ZappasGuitar said:
Why did they wait so long to tell their stories if he really did what they allege?
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ZappasGuitar said:
The fact those women waited until a few months before the election to suddenly decide they needed justice is a bit convenient.
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God bless America said:
Is that so, Brad?

So an adult - defined as a person over the age of 18 - is wrong to allegedly have any contact of a romantic or possibly sexual nature with someone under the statutory age only if said adult is over 30?

Is that your position, Brad?
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I would not saw wrong, but I’d say the person likely has mental issues...
 
Roy Moore's alleged pursuit of a young girl is the symptom of a larger problem in evangelical circles

We need to talk about the segment of American culture that probably doesn't think the allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore are particularly damning, the segment that will blanch at only two accusations in the Washington Post expose: He pursued a 14-year-old-girl without first getting her parents' permission, and he initiated sexual contact outside of marriage. That segment is evangelicalism. In that world, which Moore travels in and I grew up in, 14-year-old girls courting adult men isn't uncommon.
I use the phrase "14-year-old girls courting adult men," rather than "adult men courting 14-year-old girls," for a reason: Evangelicals routinely frame these relationships in those terms. That's how I was introduced to these relationships as a home-schooled teenager in the 1990s, and it's the language that my friends and I would use to discuss girls we knew who were in parent-sanctioned relationships with older men.

One popular courtship story that was told and retold in home-school circles during the 1990s was that of Matthew and Maranatha Chapman, who turned their history into a successful career promoting young marriage. Most audiences, however, didn't realize just how young the Chapmans had in mind until the site Homeschoolers Anonymous and the blogger Libby Anne revealed that Matthew was 27 and Maranatha was 15 when they married. Libby Anne also drew mainstream attention to Matthew Chapman's writings, in which he argued that parents should consider marriage for their daughters in their "middle-teens." At that point the Chapmans stopped receiving quite so many speaking invitations.

"Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson advocated for adult men to marry 15- and 16-year-old girls and deemed age 20 too old because "you wait until they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that's going to take place is your pocket." Home-school leader Kevin Swanson, whose 2015 convention was attended by several Republican presidential candidates, defended Robertson on his radio show after the story broke. Advocating for child marriage hasn't slowed down Robertson's career. He just got a new show on the conservative digital network CRTV.
As a teenager, I attended a lecture on courtship by a home-school speaker who was popular at the time. He praised the idea of "early courtship" so the girl could be molded into the best possible helpmeet for her future husband. The girl's father was expected to direct her education after the courtship began so she could help her future husband in his work.

In retrospect, I understand what the speaker was really describing: Adult men selecting and grooming girls who were too young to have life experience. Another word for that is "predation."

Much of the sexual abuse that takes place in Independent Fundamentalist Baptist, or IFB, churches involves adult men targeting 14- to 16-year-old girls. If caught, the teenage victim may be forced to repent the "sin" of having seduced an adult man. Former IFB megachurch pastor Jack Schaap argued that he should be released from prison after being convicted of molesting a 16-year-old girl, asserting that the "aggressiveness" of his victim "inhibited [his] impulse control." In the wake of the Schaap case, numerous other stories emerged of sexual abuse cover-ups involving teenage girls at IFB churches. In another high-profile case, pregnant 15-year-old Tina Anderson, who was raped by a church deacon twice her age, was forced to confess her "sin" to the congregation.

Prominent conservative Reformed theologian Doug Wilson has a documented history of mishandling sexual abuse cases within his congregation. Nevertheless, he continues to be promoted by evangelical leaders such as John Piper, whose Desiring God site still publishes Wilson's work. When a 13-year-old girl in Wilson's congregation was sexually abused, Wilson argued that she and her abuser were in a parent-sanctioned courtship, and that this was a mitigating factor.

There’s no shortage of such stories. A Presbyterian Church in America, or PCA, pastor attempted to discipline a woman who warned home-school parents of the convicted sex offender in his congregation. (The sex offender had gone online to solicit a 14-year-old girl for sex.) Another PCA church allowed that same convicted sex offender to give the invocation at a home-school graduation ceremony. He wasn’t perceived as an attempted child rapist, and he was “repentant.”

Growing up, I witnessed an influential religious right leader flirting with some of my teenage friends and receiving neck and shoulder massages from one of them. I've been expecting a scandal to break with him for years, but in the meantime, this man has put significant time into campaigning for anti-trans bathroom bills while deeming trans people "predators."

The allegations against Roy Moore are merely a symptom of a larger problem. It's not a Southern problem or an Alabama problem. It's a Christian fundamentalist problem. Billy Graham's grandson, Boz Tchividjian, who leads the organization GRACE (Godly Response to Abuse in a Christian Environment), believes that the sexual abuse problem in Protestant communities is on par with that in the Catholic Church.

The evangelical world is overdue for a reckoning. Women raised in evangelicalism and fundamentalism have for years discussed the normalization of child sexual abuse. We've told our stories on social media and on our blogs and various online platforms, but until the Roy Moore story broke, mainstream American society barely paid attention. Everyone assumed this was an isolated, fringe issue. It isn't.
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God bless America said:
No, you stated what you think was claimed. Link up to the actual claim. I don't trust your interpretation.



You're scared that it will improve the economy, aren't you? Hence the desperation of the DEMOCRATS to do and say anything to keep Moore from voting in favor - which you don't even know he'd do, BTW. If this fails, will you try assassination again?

Loser. :rofl2:
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I stated what she claimed, Mosquito. Look it up if you wish, Mosquito.

$1.7 trillion more in debt with peanuts going to the middle class? lol

You’re a gullible idiot buying their bullshit. But we knew that anyway.

Poor Mosquito.
 
noise said:
Moore needs to go..
I was giving the benefit of a doubt, but now his creepiness and his demonstrable predilection for minors makes him unfit for Office.
Further I am now much more tending to believe the accusers based on this background
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What background is that?
 
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