There But By The Grace

Greetings, gentle readers.
While the African continent slumbers, I thought that I would take the brief respite in edifying news updates to take some more cheap shots at itty-bitty-titty groper, Roy Moore.  You remember him - the former Alabama justice who is now running for the Senate seat vacated by nightmare pixie Jefferson Beauregard Sessions.  The one who loves talking mothers into letting him babysit their daughters, and who trolls shopping malls for unripened forbidden fruit. 

Moore takes great pride in calling himself an evangelical and boasts proudly about setting his interpretations of the Bible as greater legal standards than dinky little documents like the United States Constitution or the Bill of Rights.  There are a number of problems with staking your entire moral fibre on a pastiche of desert proverbs.  Like paying yourself a million dollars from your Biblical charity, Foundation for Moral Law.  Or when you can't pick if you like the Old Testament or the New Testament better.  The New Testament doesn't say anything about homosexuality, but it does tell womenfolk to shut up (1 Corinthians 14:34-35).  On the other hand, the Old Testament hates gays (but not lesbians) in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, while the New Testament has some hippie love stuff in it.
Then there are friends and allies that try to help.  Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler, in an attempt to justify a grown man molesting pre-adolescent girls, drew a Biblical parallel to the parents of Jesus Christ, saying that "Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus," apparently forgetting about the whole immaculate conception, and Virgin Mary mythology in his zeal to normalize Roy's behaviour.

Since my last mention of Roy Moore's campaign for the Senate, the number of females accusing Roy of sexual offences against women has risen to seven.
One wonders - what if Moore had been molesting little boys?  Would his evangelical base in Alabama continue to support him with the same fervour?
That's about it for me.  I am still watching the Zimbabwe situation with interest and shall return shortly.
Good night England and the Colonies.
—mARKUS