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The man whom Alabama Republican primary voters have nominated for the U.S. Senate is truly a frightening individual.<\/p>\n

He is Roy Moore, the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Just the other day he talked at a campaign rally about his support of the Second Amendment — and then pulled a pistol out of his pocket to prove his point.<\/p>\n

That’s not the particular point of this blog post, however.<\/p>\n

This one-time jurist believes that “homosexual activity” should be made illegal. I’ll take a leap here and presume he believes that gay couples must not be permitted to engage in any form of intimacy.<\/p>\n

I’m now wondering: How does one enforce such a law?<\/em><\/p>\n

It reminds of me a terrible “anti-sodomy law” that once was on the books in Texas. That law gave license, as I read it, for law enforcement officials to raid people’s bedrooms to enforce the prohibition against intimacy involving gay men. It’s no longer on the books.<\/p>\n

So, what is Roy Moore suggesting? That law enforcement authorities barge into people’s homes to make sure they’re not engaging in “homosexual activity”?<\/p>\n

This is the fellow who was stripped of his judgeship for (a) refusing to remove a Ten Commandments display from public property and (b) encouraged county clerks in Alabama to ignore a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that required the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.<\/p>\n

Now Alabama’s Republican voters have just nominated someone who believes that gay people cannot engage in certain “activities.”<\/p>\n

Alabama is a deeply Republican state. This fellow stands a good chance of being elected to the U.S. Senate seat now held by Luther Strange, who was appointed to the Senate after Jeff Sessions left to become U.S. attorney general.<\/p>\n

If it comes to pass, I believe Capitol Hill is going to become a significantly loonier place.<\/p>\n

Scary, man. Scary.<\/p>\n\n

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