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The Hill reports: A prominent Republican LGBT advocacy group is out with an ad opposing embattled Republican Roy Moore, calling on “good Christians” to reject him ahead of Alabama’s special Senate election. The ad from Log Cabin Republicans features people praying at church and around a dinner table, saying that politicians are “attacking our values, our churches, our children.” “It’s …

“I think you’re actually going to like this, Roy. I’m going to come to Gadsden, Ala., with a team of high school cheerleaders, okay? We’ll meet you at the mall. Don’t worry, I can get you in. And then when the girls and I show up, if you can control yourself and behave, if you can somehow manage to keep …

Well well, now. The Birmingham News reports: One of the ministers who serves a Theodore church where Roy Moore spoke Wednesday night was federally convicted of trying to block an investigation involving claims his son molested children in Honduras. Rev. Bill Atkinson led the music portion of the Moore event at the Magnolia Springs Baptist Church, where the U.S. Senate …

Last night Roy Moore’s campaign speech in an Alabama church was disrupted by a comedian who regularly appears on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. This afternoon the Moore campaign is essentially inviting Kimmel to a fistfight. Via Breitbart: “Jimmy Kimmel and the ‘Hollywood elite’ cross the line when they invade our Churches under a disguise and attempt to make a mockery of …

A few days ago The Federalist declared that Christians should vote for Roy Moore because God sometimes chooses evil men in order to achieve the greater good. Well, today they outdid themselves. An excerpt: Here is one thing we know and should admit from the start: in his early thirties, Moore had a penchant for dating teenagers. Apparently, this was …

During a speech at an Alabama church, last night Roy Moore claimed that the sexual allegations against him are the work of them there evil LGBTs. And then it got even weirder. AL.com reports: Moore’s speech was interrupted twice, once by a man who questioned why the former judge and his supporters did not believe any of the allegations raised …

ThinkProgress reports: Alabama Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore co-authored a study course, published in 2011 and recently obtained by ThinkProgress, that instructs students that women should not be permitted to run for elected office. If women do run for office, the course argues, people have a moral obligation not to vote for them. The course is also critical of the …

AL.com reports: In an impassioned letter released exclusively today to AL.com, Leigh Corfman, who accused Roy Moore of undressing her when she was 14 and he was 32, demanded the Republican Senate candidate stop calling her a liar, and attacking her character and end his “smears and false denials.” AL.com received a copy of the letter in person from Corfman. …

The Birmingham News reports: Thousands of felons across Alabama have registered to vote in recent weeks, according to Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, who is heading up a statewide effort to get felons to the voting booth. Glasgow’s goal is to get as many felons as possible signed up to vote before the deadline to be able to cast a ballot in …

According to the far-right Federalist, Christians should feel comfortable voting for “morally questionable” candidates like Roy Moore because “God uses evil men to carry out his purposes.” Seriously. An excerpt: Just go back to the Old Testament and see how he used secular leaders. God employed foreign kings to bring about his purposes of rebuilding the holy site of Jerusalem. …

CNN reports: Senate candidate Roy Moore said at a campaign event Monday that the sexual allegations he faces are “completely false” and “malicious,” and said he doesn’t know any of the women levying them. The Alabama Republican compared the allegations to the probe into 2016 Russian meddling in the US election and potential connections between President Donald Trump’s campaign and …

The Hill reports: GOP Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said on Monday that he did not vote for Republican nominee Roy Moore in the state’s Senate special election. “No, no, no, I voted absentee. I didn’t vote for him. I voted for a distinguished Republican write-in,” Shelby told reporters when asked if he would vote for Moore, who has been accused …

The Washington Post reports: A woman who falsely claimed to The Washington Post that Roy Moore, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama, impregnated her as a teenager appears to work with an organization that uses deceptive tactics to secretly record conversations in an effort to embarrass its targets. In a series of interviews over two weeks, the woman shared …

Here’s what today’s Doug Jones ad is about: Many states and localities are looking to expand the availability of preschool, but Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore apparently believed this push was misguided and could result in the Nazi-style indoctrination of America’s children. In 2007, Moore wrote an op-ed on the conservative site WorldNetDaily saying preschool was “detrimental to children …

The Washington Post reports: Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is using a new television ad to push back on allegations of sexual misconduct against him. In the new ad, an announcer says Moore is being hit by “false allegations” in a “scheme by liberal elites and the Republican establishment” to sink his candidacy for U.S. Senate. The ad does …

The Hill reports: CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Monday clashed with a Breitbart editor who used a Ringo Starr song to defend Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore’s alleged sexual misconduct toward teenaged women. “You know, in 1973, Ringo Starr hit No. 1 on the billboard charts with the song ‘You’re Sixteen, You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine,’” Breitbart editor Joel …

Per the Associated Press, the White House today announced that Trump will not do as he did for Sen. Luther Strange and campaign in person for Roy Moore. This comes despite Trump’s multiple denouncements of Democrat Doug Jones as being everything but an open communist. As of today, Real Clear Politics shows Jones with a very slim lead in their …

CNN reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham bemoaned President Donald Trump’s support for Alabama Senate Republican candidate Roy Moore on Sunday, calling the move a lose-lose situation. “If he wins, we get the baggage of him winning, and it becomes a story every day about whether or not you believe the women or Roy Moore, should he stay in the Senate, should …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his support for embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, taking to Twitter to disparage Moore’s opponent, Democrat Doug Jones. Against the wishes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other top Republicans, the president decided last week to take Moore’s side amid mounting allegations of sexual …

The Washington Post reports: Senate candidate Roy Moore’s campaign refused Wednesday to substantiate a key claim it made as part of an effort to raise doubts about one of the Alabama candidate’s accusers. The campaign has claimed to have found documents that show Leigh Corfman lived more than a mile from the intersection where she said Moore picked her up …