Religion Dispatches: Roy “10 Commandments” Moore Doesn’t Want to Reform the Senate, He Has a Higher Calling
While his repeated defiance of federal court orders garnered headlines nationwide, it has also allowed him to position himself as an important defender of so-called “traditional Christian values,” thereby fulfilling the divine duties of the “lower civil magistrate” who is called to address the corruption of high-ranking public officials. So while the speculations about the dominionist direction a Sen. Moore would likely try to take the GOP in are accurate, Political Research Associates fellow Frederick Clarkson has a different prediction for Moore’s time in Washington: “He’s not there to reform the Senate. He’s there to undermine it.”