7/14/2023 0 Comments Roger moore alabama![]() Though Moore has never singled out Hefner for criticisms (that I know of), Playboy’s cultural influence surely ran counter to the values Moore hoped then - and his constituents hope now - to restore. And in his successful campaign for the state Supreme Court in 2000, Moore argued that Christianity’s decline in influence “corresponded directly with school violence, homosexuality, and crime.” Moore, who had been appointed to the court, won election to a full term in 1994, by defeating none other than the prosecutor in the stripper/murder case. Needless to say, this makes Moore an object of scorn among a majority of Americans, who see gays and lesbians as, well, human beings deserving of equal rights and protections under the same laws that Moore views as justifying the criminalization of same-sex relationships.Īdding piquancy to Moore’s history, the case before his Alabama circuit court that attracted the ACLU’s attention involved two gay strippers, “Silk” and “Satin,” who were accused of murdering a drug addict. Among his more controversial and unwavering beliefs is that homosexuality isn’t only a sin but also a crime. Never coy about his moral positions, Moore liked to keep The Ten Commandments post in his courtroom so that guests would understand that the tablets were the basis for our legal system. Perpetually stalled in adolescence, he was an early advocate of the socially debased trends Moore saw as having led to the unraveling of the American family. To the fan base of the latter, whom most will remember as the judge who fought the ACLU to keep a Ten Commandments plaque and pre-session prayer in his courtroom, Hefner might as well have been an agent of Satan. That Hefner was rarely seen except in pajamas surrounded by Playmates dressed like inflated bunny rabbits was kitschy and self-parodying, if you were more inclined toward Roger Moore than Roy Moore. “Bad boy” behavior - philandering, licentiousness and exploitation - was re-imagined and sold as “freedom,” a philosophy as distant from the Testaments as Moore is from the zeitgeist. ![]() Hefner, who validated the objectification of women by embedding their sexualized bodies between the more-respectable pages of first-rate writing, embraced and championed libertinism and materialism. But if Hefner’s recent death the day after Moore won Alabama’s Senate Republican primary runoff reminded us of how much American culture has changed in a couple of generations, then Moore represents the antithesis of those alterations and a mechanism for reversing them. WASHINGTON - The political resurrection of Alabama’s Roy Moore - the Moses of the South - and the mortal end of Hugh Hefner are not entirely unrelated. ![]()
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