No, Roy, God won't solve our problems
Steve Chapman
... Moore is a good approximation of a theocrat. A former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, he was removed for defying a court order to take down the Ten Commandments monument he installed in the state judicial building. He put it there, he announced, to affirm "the sovereignty of God" ...
Last year, Bible-believing Louisiana had the highest murder rate in the country. Moore’s Alabama came in third. Prayer-drenched Mississippi had the sixth-worst ...
God-fearing places also don’t have a stellar record of upholding the family. The divorce rate is 50 percent higher in Alabama than in Massachusetts — which, by the way, was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. New Hampshire and Mississippi, at opposite ends of the religiosity spectrum, are virtually identical in the propensity for marital dissolution ...
Births to unmarried women are another side effect of the decline of the family. Last year, these accounted for 53 percent of births in Mississippi, the highest in the country, and 52 percent in Louisiana. In Massachusetts and New Hampshire, they were just one-third of births ...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chapman/ct-perspec-chapman-roy-moore-god-alabama-20171119-story.html
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