Twenty words you can't say in Alabama

[Lunar]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2010/01/twenty_words_you_cant_say_alabama

EVERY politician says something he has to walk back once in a while. In the case of Bradley Byrne, a Republican candidate for governor of Alabama, it was

I think there are parts of the Bible that are meant to be literally true and parts that are not.

Mr Byrne was battered by so much criticism that he quickly trudged to a Piggly Wiggly grocery store to hold a press conference and recant. Claiming he had been misquoted, he said

I believe the Bible is true. Every word of it.

Mr Byrne's momentary hesitation about the literal truth of every word of the Bible makes him the religious hippie in the Republican field. James Potts, another runner, thinks that public property should be allowed to display monuments to every faith—except Islam: "Either you accept our way of life or you go back to another country that is Muslim." All supported voluntary school prayer. All but one thought that public-school teachers should be allowed to teach from the Bible.

The one dissenter on that last question? Roy Moore, the judge famously stripped of his job as the state's chief justice for installing, then refusing to remove, a 5,200-pound granite monument to the Ten Commandments in his courthouse.  Yes, nearly all of Republican candidates are running to Mr Moore's right on the role of Christianity in public life. Mr Moore's reason for not wanting to teach from the Bible in school was not, of course, because the Bible isn't perfect. He argued that was that government teaching of Scripture could ruin it. Good to see that anti-government orthodoxy can still, sometimes, trump religious orthodoxy, in today's GOP.

[Lief 🗽]

It's time that we let Alabama have a "do-over" and give it another chance to secede.

[Hash]

Seriously, do these guys have nothing better to talk about during an election campaign that the stupid Bible and flipping Jesus? Like, I don't know, economics or stuff.

Probably because they don't teach economics in Alabama.

[Vepres]

Do you guys have anything better to talk about than idiocracy in Alabama politics?

[Lunar]

Do you guys have anything better to talk about than idiocracy in Alabama politics?

This is about the AL governor's race.  This board is dedicated to races like this.  What're you all being condescending for?

[Хahar 🤔]

Do you guys have anything better to talk about than idiocracy in Alabama politics?

No.

[Vepres]

Do you guys have anything better to talk about than idiocracy in Alabama politics?

This is about the AL governor's race.  This board is dedicated to races like this.  What're you all being condescending for?

You're not analyzing the race but criticizing the candidates' social conservatism.

Well, you weren't, but the others were.

[Хahar 🤔]

Do you guys have anything better to talk about than idiocracy in Alabama politics?

This is about the AL governor's race.  This board is dedicated to races like this.  What're you all being condescending for?

You're not analyzing the race but criticizing the candidates' social conservatism.

Well, you weren't, but the others were.

So?

[Vepres]

Do you guys have anything better to talk about than idiocracy in Alabama politics?

This is about the AL governor's race.  This board is dedicated to races like this.  What're you all being condescending for?

You're not analyzing the race but criticizing the candidates' social conservatism.

Well, you weren't, but the others were.

So?

I visit these boards for election analysis, not bashing candidates (though it is fun sometimes, and I do it too ).

[Sam Spade]

What do you expect - this is Alabama after all, and it applies to any hardcore Baptist state (as that is a fundamental part of the religion)?

I should note that most blacks in Alabama would probably agree about this.

[Bo]

What do y'all expect? It's Alabamy after all.

[Franzl]

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And that'll probably get him votes too.

[Eraserhead]

I hate Alabama with a passion. What a horrible state! Of course, all of its neighbor states are pretty horrible too.

[timmer123]

Seriously, do these guys have nothing better to talk about during an election campaign that the stupid Bible and flipping Jesus? Like, I don't know, economics or stuff.

Probably because they don't teach economics in Alabama.

Actually my friend, since liberal Democrats have been in charge of our public school systems, they don't teach economics anywhere.

[Lief 🗽]

Seriously, do these guys have nothing better to talk about during an election campaign that the stupid Bible and flipping Jesus? Like, I don't know, economics or stuff.

Probably because they don't teach economics in Alabama.

Actually my friend, since liberal Democrats have been in charge of our public school systems, they don't teach economics anywhere.

After what the Republicans have done to the science and history curriculum in this country, we should be glad that they haven't been able to indoctrinate kids with their economic propaganda as well.

[Hash]

Seriously, do these guys have nothing better to talk about during an election campaign that the stupid Bible and flipping Jesus? Like, I don't know, economics or stuff.

Probably because they don't teach economics in Alabama.

Actually my friend, since liberal Democrats have been in charge of our public school systems, they don't teach economics anywhere.

The evil librul DimocRATS even control the Alabama education? Wow, they're really evil.

[Хahar 🤔]

Seriously, do these guys have nothing better to talk about during an election campaign that the stupid Bible and flipping Jesus? Like, I don't know, economics or stuff.

Probably because they don't teach economics in Alabama.

Actually my friend, since liberal Democrats have been in charge of our public school systems, they don't teach economics anywhere.

The evil librul DimocRATS even control the Alabama education? Wow, they're really evil.

Obviously. They control the state legislature.