Snopes says TRUE! Did Roy Moore Say Muslims Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Serve in Congress?

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Did Roy Moore Say Muslims Shouldn't Be Allowed to Serve in Congress?

https://www.snopes.com/roy-moore-muslims-serve-congress/

The U.S. Senate candidate wrote in 2006 that newly-elected Representative Keith Ellison, a Muslim, should be prohibited from taking the oath of office.

CLAIM

U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama Roy Moore said that a practicing Muslim should not be allowed to serve in Congress by reason of his faith.
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ORIGIN

Alabama Senatorial candidate Roy Moore has led a controversial public career, to say the least. Its highlights include being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union when he was Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court for erecting a monument bearing the Ten Commandments in the court building in 2001, and being dismissed from the bench by a state judiciary panel in 2003 for refusing to remove it.

He was also an unapologetic “birther,” freely promoting and promulgating roundly disproven rumors that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States and was secretly a Muslim, and argued that “homosexual conduct” should be illegal.

Although his views struck a chord with a subset of Alabama voters, propelling him to the Republican Party nomination in a run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, at least one member of his own party, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona), refused to endorse him on the grounds that Moore had “expressed his personal belief that a practicing Muslim should not be a member of Congress because of his faith”:.........................

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Moore is a racist and bigot, the finest the republican party has to offer
Grand Old Pedophile party