Top evangelical leaders voice support for Moore

[DonViejo]

BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 12/12/17 10:25 AM EST

Top Evangelical leaders this week voiced their support for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of Liberty University and an outspoken of President Trump, tweeted support for Moore on Monday with a reference to the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Sweet Home Alabama."

Link to tweet

Franklin Graham, the president of the evangelism organization Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, tweeted Tuesday that he is "praying for Roy Moore."

Link to tweet

Graham, a supporter of Trump, has in the past called out critics of Moore, who is facing multiple allegations of sexual assaulting or molesting teenagers.

Last month, after the allegations against Moore surfaced, Graham tweeted that the "hypocrisy of Washington has no bounds."

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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/364429-evangelical-leaders-voice-support-for-moore

[dchill]

1. Ah! My two favorite Christians!

[Wounded Bear]

2. The usual band of grifters...

[democratisphere]

3. Many evangelicals are absolute frauds.

Falwell and Graham are no exceptions.

[brokephibroke]

4. Falwell and graham

Both charlatans only concerned about money. They are not christians.

[workinclasszero]

5. Their god is Ayn Rand

Grifters and con men, of course they back Pedo Moore.

[YOHABLO]

6. They didn't have much choice growing up. Poor things.

[Angry Dragon]

7. where is Pat Robertson??

[workinclasszero]

16. Stealing little old ladies social security food money

would be my guess.

The Lord's (Ayn Rand) work is never done, don't you know?

[Va Lefty]

8. Not surprised the Falwell doesn't understand the song "Sweet Home Alabama"

His understanding of the Bible is tenuous at best.



"Music historians point out that the choice of Birmingham in connection with the governor (rather than the capital Montgomery) is significant for the controversy as "In 1963, the city was the site of massive civil rights activism, as thousands of demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. sought to desegregate downtown businesses... [and] was the scene of some of the most violent moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Segregationist police chief Bull Connor unleashed attack dogs and high-pressure water cannons against peaceful marchers, including women and children; just weeks later, Ku Klux Klansmen bombed a black church, killing four little girls."[4]

In 1975, Van Zant said: "The lyrics about the governor of Alabama were misunderstood. The general public didn't notice the words 'Boo! Boo! Boo!' after that particular line, and the media picked up only on the reference to the people loving the governor."[5] "The line 'We all did what we could do' is sort of ambiguous," Al Kooper notes. "'We tried to get Wallace out of there' is how I always thought of it."[5] Towards the end of the song, Van Zant adds "where the governor's true" to the chorus's "where the skies are so blue," a line rendered ironic by the previous booing of the governor. Journalist Al Swenson argues that the song is more complex than it is sometimes given credit for, suggesting that it only looks like an endorsement of Wallace.[5] "Wallace and I have very little in common," Van Zant himself said, "I don't like what he says about colored people."[5]

Music historians examining the juxtaposition of invoking Richard Nixon and Watergate after Wallace and Birmingham note that one reading of the lyrics is an "attack against the liberals who were so outraged at Nixon's conduct" while others interpret it regionally: "the band was speaking for the entire South, saying to northerners, we're not judging you as ordinary citizens for the failures of your leaders in Watergate; don't judge all of us as individuals for the racial problems of southern society"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Home_Alabama

[Cartoonist]

12. Bunk

Sad apology for a stupid song. it's like the old saying, if you have to explain a joke, then it isn't funny.

[Achilleaze]

9. republican 'religious leaders' in league with the devil

some evil, dark shit going down in republican "believer-land"

[dembotoz]

10. watergate does not bother him....crook backs the crook

was nixon chosen by god too?

[NastyRiffraff]

11. Of course they did

Is anyone surprised at those two? And Franklin Graham accusing anyone of hypocrisy is just laughable.

[spanone]

13. these fucking fakes are nothing but politicians scamming people who believe in God

[smirkymonkey]

14. These people are obscene.

I find it absolutely amazing that so many people buy their bullshit.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

15. Both are money grubbing, hustling nepotists, not remotely Christian in their behavior!