Islam is a “false religion,” former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore said Monday during a meeting of the North Jefferson County Republican Club.
Moore made the comment in response to a Gardendale resident who said she was concerned about the implementation of Sharia law.
He suggested the Muslim faith was incompatible with American values.
“False religions like Islam, who teach that ‘you must worship this way,’ are completely opposite with what our First Amendment stands for,” Moore told the crowd at Jim ‘N Nick’s BBQ in Gardendale.
Moore, who was ousted twice from the Alabama Supreme Court -- the most recent instance for issuing an order prohibiting probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples -- maintained that his action didn’t violate judicial ethics. He also claimed the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling did not make gay marriage legal throughout the country.
“If they can do that, they can make legal [marriage for] a man and five women or a woman and five men,” he said. “There’s no historical context for two men to get married.”
While speaking about the need to strengthen the military, Moore also said he was against allowing transgender people to serve.
“We do not need to think about transgender rights in the military,” he said. “We’re talking about something that will actually decimate the morale in the military.”
Moore, who is among the top tier of Republican candidates on the ballot for the Aug. 15 special election primary, began and ended his talk by holding up a CNN article from earlier this month reporting that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was ‘in panic mode’ over Moore’s chances of winning the seat currently occupied by Sen. Luther Strange.
“Notice who [the Republican establishment] does not want up there” in the Senate, he said.
Moore made a parallel between his last election in 2012, when he said his campaign “broke the Democratic Party” and bankrupted the state party in its efforts to defeat him, and the Republican establishment’s position in the special primary.
“Maybe they’ll be hurt, too,” he said.