We didn’t really bank on becoming a political blog about Alabama politics, but those yokels are making ignoring their goings-on near impossible. Surprisingly, we’re not even talking about something Tim James — the lunatic who says things like “This is Alabama. We speak English” while wandering around his slave plantation — did this time. Instead we’re talking about another intolerant, wingnut Jesusy Republican who’s running for governor.
His name is Roy Moore, and you may know him from the time he insisted that massive replicas of the Ten Commandments belonged on the front yard of the Alabama Supreme Court. With that as his credential, he’s running for the top job in the state, and he’s attacking one of his opponents for not loving Jesus enough. More specifically, Moore is running a new ad that claims his opponent, Bradley Byrne, thinks evolution is worth considering (GASP!) and believes that every word in the Bible isn’t literally true.
In other words, Byrne is never going to be governor of Alabama because he doesn’t think people can live in whales, doesn’t believe in talking snakes or omnipotent men in the clouds, and is skeptical that someone built a boat big enough to house two of every animal on Earth (even the dinosaurs). Sigh. Alabama, you’re officially worse than Texas.
Geezus, that’s bad if Alabama is proving to be as bad as Texas in the fundie-Christer-I.D. categories! Are they going to try to rewrite the History textbooks in Alabama too?