No Moore

Tomorrow, Alabama voters head to the polls for the Democrat and Republican primaries. The Democrat races offer very little excitement, except for maybe the possibility that an atheist/Holocaust denier has a chance at becoming the Dems' nominee for attorney general.

The real action is on the Republican ballot, where GOP voters appear ready to drive a stake through "Ten Commandments Judge" Roy Moore and his minions' political ambitions. Moore trails incumbent Republican Gov. Bob Riley badly in pre-election polls. Four Moore supporters are also attempting to gain control of the state Supreme Court -- of which Moore once led as chief justice before he was booted out of office for refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the state court building.

BaT isn't big on "endorsements," but this will be an exception. We won't tell you who to vote for if you are an Alabama Republican. But we will tell you who to vote against. In fact, we encourage Democrats to cross over into the GOP primary (you can do that in Alabama), and strike a blow back at Moore and his lackeys for calling gay people "evil."

Vote AGAINST Roy Moore for governor.

Vote AGAINST Tom Parker for chief justice.

Vote AGAINST Ben Hand for associate justice, place 1.

Vote AGAINST Hank Fowler for associate justice, place 2.

Vote AGAINST Alan Zeigler for associate justice, place 3.

We can only hope that this time tomorrow night we can report that the Moore-ons were all defeated and sent to the garbage bin of bigotry in much the same way the segregations were 30 years ago.

P.S. Alabama also has on the ballot a constitutional amendment banning the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples -- despite that the state already has a law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Of course, BaT urges all voters to reject the amendment by voting "NO." However, this article quotes even Democrats are saying they intend to support the amendment.

BaT reminds you that Alabama voters overturned a law banning interracial marriages ... in 2000 -- more than 30 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Even then, 40 percent voted to keep the ban (although, to be fair, there was some trickery tried using language that many construed as an attempt to increase taxes).

We would consider it a victory -- although still a defeat -- if the amendment wins by no more than a 65-35 vote.