Who would have guessed someone would use Mary and Jesus as an excuse for the allegation that Roy Moore had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl?
I would - because I remember the Phil "you got to get them when they're 15-16" Robertson threads here where a couple Christians used just that argument.
Alabama's state auditor Jim Zeigler:
"Take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus."
It would come as no surprise to me to see that Trump supporters who looked the other way at Trump's admitted sexual assault would just as easily look the other way at the allegations against Roy Moore, and in fact, would blame the victim. These women didn't come forward without a great deal of trepidation because of what they knew would happen if they did,
which is why so many women remain silent for so long - and a man may never get this.
And now these women are being castigated by the right-wing - even Sean Hannity said Moore's contact with the 14-year-old was "consensual." And before anyone rushes to Hannity's defense, I've read the transcript.
HANNITY: How do you possibly tell, know the truth, except -- OK, so the two other girls were older in this case. He was apparently, like, 32, and he dated -- one girl was 18, one girl was 17. They never said he did -- there was no sexual -- there was kissing involved, and then they're saying this one encounter with a 14-year-old --
MCLAUGHLIN: And it was consensual --
HANNITY: And consensual, that's true. And there's -- I just -- I don't know how you find out the truth.