The 2nd-Highest Ranking Repug in Senate Just Endorsed Candidate Who Wants to Make Being Gay Illegal
Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), the second-highest ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate, has just endorsed Alabama's Roy Moore. Moore is the highly-controversial anti-gay, anti-Islam, religious extremist who was twice booted from his elected role as chief justice of the state Supreme Court after refusing to honor federal laws. Roy Moore also has ties to neo-Confederate, white nationalist, and secessionist groups. On December 12, Moore will face Democratic candidate Doug Jones in a special election to fill the Senate seat formerly held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“Alabamians will soon elect a new U.S. Senator and I hope they will vote for the candidate who will follow in former Senator Sessions’ footsteps as a tireless advocate led by principle rather than politics,” Cornyn (photo) said in a statement reported Wednesday by the right wing website The Daily Caller. “That is why I am proud to offer my support to Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate. I look forward to working with him to pass legislation that will effect meaningful change for all Americans.”
When asked about Moore's beliefs that homosexuality should be illegal, Cornyn told NBC News producer Frank Thorp V, “I don’t have to agree with somebody to support them over the Democratic nominee. I support the nominee of my party.”
Thorp also asked Moore about his belief that Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison should not be allowed to serve in the U.S. Congress because he is Muslim, Cornyn offered a similar response: “I have disagreement within my own family, doesn’t mean I care for them any less, so I support the nominee of my party.”
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