Alabama Evangelicals Find It Easy to Forgive Roy Moore

Alabama Evangelicals Find It Easy to Forgive Roy Moore
The string of child-molestation allegations against the Republican Senate candidate has only affirmed for evangelical conservatives that Moore is the right man for the seat.
Andrew Desiderio 12.10.17 8:51 PM ET

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama—It’s 7:30 on a Sunday morning, and just outside the main entrance of the massive Briarwood Presbyterian Church campus, a man and a woman were jumping up and down waving “Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate” signs at passing cars.

With just two days remaining in the most important national race left in this calendar year, that’s to be expected.

But the sign holders—who stayed at the same street corner all morning—were simply preaching to the choir.

This subset of social conservatives in Alabama’s largest metropolitan area, like those across the state, hasn’t ditched Moore in light of the multiple women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, including child molestation. In fact, the string of allegations, which Moore denies, has only affirmed in their minds that Moore is the right person to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions on a permanent basis in the Senate, and that Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate, would vote against their interests on key issues including abortion. For some, it was difficult to get to the point where an accused child molester is preferable to a Democrat. But for others, it wasn’t so hard at all.

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