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Some pastors stand behind Roy Moore, cite "war on men"

Despite allegations of sexual misconduct against Senate candidate Roy Moore, many pastors in Alabama and other states in the Southeast are sticking by the twice-removed Chief Justice.

"This attack on Judge Moore is an attempt by the Democrats to sway voters in Alabama," said Pastor David Floyd of Marvyn Parkway Baptist Church, Opelika.

"I don't believe those women. In this country you are innocent until proven guilty."

Floyd is one of around 50 pastors that signed a letter of public support for Moore in August before allegations of sexual misconduct and the dating of teens became public.

Moore has denied the allegations, calling them an "attack on my character and reputation" and a "desperate attempt to stop my political campaign for the United States Senate."

Pastor Franklin Raddish of the Capitol Hill Independent Baptist Ministries, a nationwide church, told AL.com from his South Carolina home that the spate of accusations against men in politics, Hollywood and elsewhere was a "war on men."

"More women are sexual predators than men," said Raddish.

"Women are chasing young boys up and down the road, but we don't hear about that because it's not PC."

Kayla Moore, wife of the 70 year-old former Chief Justice of Alabama, rereleased the letter from supportive pastors on Tuesday in the aftermath of The Washington Post story that accused Moore of initiating a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old and pursing three other teenagers.

Since then, more women have come forward to complain about Moore's behavior.

AL.com attempted to reach out to every pastor that had supported Moore prior to the release of the allegations Nov. 9. Of the 29 churches that responded, 19 confirmed that the pastor in question was still supporting Moore.

The remaining 10 did not confirm support.

And a further 21 either did not respond or could not be reached for comment.

While Republicans in Washington DC are calling for Moore to step aside, the Alabama GOP is supporting the embattled Gadsden native.

Rep. Mo Brooks has also said he would continue to support Moore and Rep. Bradley Byrne indicated that it was for the electorate to decide.

Rep. Robert Aderholt said he had no reason not to vote for Moore.

And while some pastors in Alabama have withdrawn their backing in recent days, most still endorse Moore, underlining the unwavering support he has received from his conservative Christian base since the beginning of the election cycle.

Moore faces Democratic candidate Doug Jones in the special election for the U.S. Senate on Dec. 12.

Forty percent of evangelicals polled between Nov. 9 and Nov. 11 said they were more likely to vote for Moore in the wake of the allegations against him, according to a recent poll.

Pastor Raddish in South Carolina said that Moore was dealing with the double standards of the mainstream media and the political elites in Washington, which he said had not reacted to other sexual scandals in the same way.

"No one told Trump to stand down, what about the allegations against Clinton and his extramarital affair?

The Democrats made a laughing stock out of those women.

And now Al Franken is keeping his job."

"Also, why did the mothers of these women not come forward," said Raddish.

"The mother knew, the family knew, and not one of them did anything.

Any mother with red blood that found out her daughter had been violated would have kicked down doors."

"Why didn't they tell the state police, the FBI, the local sheriff?" added Franklin.

"Because it's not true."

Pastor Paul Hubbard of Lakeview Baptist Church, Montgomery, told reporters from WSFA channel 12 that if Moore has done what people say he's done he should "be arrested and tried in court... but accusations are just accusations."

Hubbard explained that the biggest issue with the allegation is that they came 40 years later.

But not every pastor on the original list wanted to remain on it.

Some didn't even know they were on the list in the first place.

Tijuanna Adetunji, a member and pastor of Fresh Anointing House of Worship in Montgomery, said that while she believes in Moore's values and still supports him, she did not want it to seem she was supporting Moore because of the allegations.

Her name and that of her husband, Bishop Fred Adetunji, were taken off the list.

Pastor Thad Endicott of Opelika and Dr. George Grant of Parish Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tenn., both asked to be removed.

Dr. Grant was not aware he was on the original list and said he hadn't spoken to Moore in 10 years.

"Not my state, not my politics," he told a Nashville TV station.

Misty » 19 Nov 2017 2:18 pm » wrote:Some pastors stand behind Roy Moore, cite "war on men"

Misty » 15 Nov 2017 1:12 am » wrote:This is how gateway pundit, one of the deplorable's favorite sources operates.

BREAKING: Roy Moore Jumps to 10 Point Lead in PredictIt Market as Accuser Accusations Falls Apart
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Termin8tor » 20 Nov 2017 8:32 am » wrote:

Misty » 19 Nov 2017 2:18 pm » wrote:Some pastors stand behind Roy Moore, cite "war on men"

Not at all an unreasonable stance.
Depends on whether some of these women are lying. One certainly seems to be. That yearbook "signature" looks like it was forged.

Misty » 22 Nov 2017 3:31 pm » wrote:Holy Mother of God!
Please help this man.

Which you're too dishonest to admit.

Misty » 22 Nov 2017 3:31 pm » wrote:Holy Mother of God!
Please help this man.





He's Tweeting about that **** at 5:30 in the morning and not a word about 3 missing sailors until 8:00 AM.

I saw it reported on CNN at 6:00 AM.

Washington Post: Project Veritas Tried to Sell Us Bogus Roy Moore Story

GARY CAMERON/REUTERS

Right-wing activism organization Project Veritas, known for its highly edited hidden camera stings on liberals, seems to have gotten its most recent sting operation exposed by The Washington Post.

An apparent employee or associate of the conservative group attempted to convince the Post that Senate candidate Roy Moore had impregnated her and forced her to get an abortion at 15.

The woman, who went by Jamie Phillips, told reporters that Moore had abused her as a teenager, and that she wanted the Post to guarantee that Moore would lose his election if she came forward.

But in doing their background research, Post reporters found holes in Phillips’ story, including that she did not work for the insurance company she named as her employer, and that she had published a GoFundMe page asking friends for money so that she could move to New York “to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt [sic] of the liberal MSM.”

In a videotaped conversation with a Post reporter, Phillips continued to spin a web of debunked tales, ultimately backing out when it became apparent that she had become the story itself.

The Post then saw her entering the Mamaroneck, New York offices of Project Veritas.

The Post did not publish Phillips’ false allegations against Moore.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/washingto ... oore-story

Trump calls Warren 'Pocahontas' at event honoring Native Americans

BY ALI VITALI



President Donald Trump revived his derogatory nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Monday, referring to her as "Pocahontas" during an event honoring Native American veterans at the White House.

Trump told the veterans: "You were here long before any of us were here. Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas."

After making the crack, Trump turned to one of the Navajo code talkers, who served in World War II, and said: "But you know what? I like you. Because you are special. You are special people, you are really incredible people."

He spoke under the watchful eye of a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, known for his forceful removals of Native Americans from their ancestral lands.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... ns-n824266

James O’Keefe Is Fighting His Insurance Company

The conservative activist filmmaker is battling insurance company Gemini after it refused to back Project Veritas on lawsuits filed by targets of his undercover videos.

For months, lawsuits have piled up against James O’Keefe, the conservative filmmaker and provocateur, from various targets of his signature undercover videos.

But O’Keefe and his video site Project Veritas have taken some legal action of their own recently — against the insurance company that they claim violated a contractual obligation to pay for mushrooming legal bills.

Now Project Veritas is engaged in a battle with the company it hoped would protect it, a dispute that lays bare the stark challenges faced by O’Keefe for the kind of controversial, litigation-prone hidden camera stings that have made him both a scourge and a conservative media darling.

In September, O’Keefe and his associates at Project Veritas sued Gemini Insurance Company for “wrongful denial to defend and indemnify” Project Veritas over three lawsuits.

The company alleged that Gemini was in breach of contract for not footing the bill for the lawsuits, which included a defamation allegation from the president of a Kansas teachers union.

Last month, O’Keefe and his fellow plaintiffs at Project Veritas dismissed the lawsuit, which executive director Russell Verney told BuzzFeed News was mistakenly filed.

The insurance policy requires the dispute to be settled under arbitration, Verney said, and Project Veritas has entered into that process.

A spokesperson for W.R. Berkley Corporation, which owns Gemini, declined to comment, saying that the company had a policy to not comment on litigation or the status of its client relationships.

Arbitration documents obtained by BuzzFeed News show that Gemini is fighting Project Veritas on its claims.

According to documents, the disagreement now hinges on coverage for four different lawsuits.

In February, Project Veritas said it reached out to Gemini over a lawsuit from a former employee of textbook company Pearson Education who was fired after being caught on camera in a Project Veritas video taking on the Common Core curriculum, a topic criticized frequently by conservative media.

Project Veritas claims that Gemini initially provided a defense, but later denied it coverage.

This summer, Project Veritas unsuccessfully sought to enact its insurance policy when Steve Wentz, the Kansas teachers union president, alleged in a lawsuit that a video that appeared to show him suggesting he has threatened students with physical violence was "creatively edited… to make him appear violent and dangerous."

An attorney for Wentz said that the recording was taken without Wentz’s authorization.

Florida, where the video was taken, has a two-party consent law that requires both parties involved in a conversation to agree to be recorded.

Project Veritas also said it was denied coverage from Gemini regarding a lawsuit over an undercover video sting against Democratic operatives that occurred in the run-up before the 2016 election.

That suit alleged that an associate to O’Keefe won an internship at a firm called Democracy Partners under false pretenses and worked undercover.

Project Veritas notified its insurer in September about a fourth lawsuit, brought by a woman in North Carolina featured in O’Keefe’s videos who is suing for defamation.

According to the arbitration complaint, Project Veritas and its operatives incurred more than $160,000 in legal fees without Gemini’s assistance.

The complaint said that Gemini’s contract insured Project Veritas for $1,000,000 on each claim and in total, with a deductible of $25,000 for each claim.

The insurer had told Project Veritas that the claims did not fall within the policy, according to the complaint.

Gemini countered that Project Veritas had misrepresented itself in its insurance application: specifically, Gemini said that Project Veritas reported that it had obtained consent from people appearing in its videos.

In the complaint, Project Veritas denies misrepresenting itself, saying that the group “disclosed on the application that the nature of its investigations was ‘undercover’ video recordings, using ‘mini-cams’ and ‘hidden cameras.’”

Gemini also claims that the policy covers work done for hire — and the lawsuits therefore are outside of the policy.

Project Veritas disputes that characterization, adding that its work is for the public and that the policy should cover that.

Like most businesses, media companies rely on insurance to help protect from legal liability, but the degree to which that covers fallout over what media organizations publish has been tested in the past.

The former Gawker Media, for instance, sparred in court with its insurer over the site’s bills in its war with Hulk Hogan.

The professional wrestler would end up, somewhat famously in media circles, dropping a claim of emotional stress that could have triggered the policy.

That led to early rumors that a behind-the-scenes financier — later revealed to be Silicon Valley billionaire and Gawker enemy Peter Thiel — was funding the case in order to topple the gossip site.

Verney has similar suspicions that the lawsuits against Project Veritas, which he called frivolous, were linked together in “some effort to tie us up in litigation and legal expenses.”

That argument is a familiar trope for students of Project Veritas, whose videos typically allege to unearth conspiracies about Democrats and the mainstream media.

O’Keefe has cast himself as a First Amendment crusader, and his activist group, Project Veritas Action Fund, is suing over a Massachusetts eavesdropping law that prevents his style of undercover work.

But O’Keefe’s career is also marked by instances of dubious editing and lawsuits.

He first came to prominence in 2009 thanks to undercover videos that led to the downfall of liberal organizer ACORN; in 2013, O’Keefe settled a lawsuit brought by a former ACORN employee for $100,000.

In 2010, he pleaded guilty to entering a federal building under false pretenses and was sentenced to three years of probation over his involvement in a botched incident at then-Senator Mary Landrieu’s office.

In September, a circuit court judge in September restricted Project Veritas from publishing information obtained in an apparent undercover intern sting operation into the Michigan chapter of the American Federation of Teachers.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/steven ... ce-company

Misty » 27 Nov 2017 5:39 pm » wrote:Project Veritas busted.

Misty » 28 Nov 2017 5:17 pm » wrote:Don't fall for the 'Trump brought Christmas back to the White House' narrative.

A Fox News editorial praised Donald Trump for the festive decor of in the White House and the use of "Merry Christmas" over "Happy Holidays" in the first family's Christmas card.



The implication being that Obama was somehow anti-Christmas, a notion @ParkerMalloy and others handily disproved.