A former classmate of Judge Roy Moore at the University of Alabama Law School was not surprised at allegations that the Republican Senate nominee had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl in the late 1970s. Instead, he warns the state “to beware of false prophets.”
“No I wasn’t surprised,” the classmate tells the Washington Examiner on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal on his law firm. “Because I have seen, all my life, Bible-thumping, God-fearing hypocrites.”
Though Moore was a year ahead, the two had class together shortly before the GOP Senate hopeful allegedly began a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl. According to a bombshell Washington Post report, four different women say Moore pursued a relationship with them while they were still teenagers. Moore, naturally, claims the allegations are “smear tactics” and elected officials are even invoking Mary and Joseph to defend him.
Before graduation, Moore seemed to attract ridicule, though not controversy. “He just had some strange opinions,” the classmate says, recalling that everyone nicknamed the Vietnam vet, “Captain America.”
Back then, Moore talked more frequently about Vietnam than the scripture, and the classmate doesn’t remember any rumors or talk of dating teenage girls. Somewhere along the line, he says Moore must have “seen the light” and adds that “you can find whatever you want in the Bible, apparently including reprehensible sin.”
Now, more than four decades later, the classmate compares the brash, Bible-thumping social conservative to Jimmy Swaggart.
“You know who he is?” the classmate asks, referring to the disgraced televangelist. “They caught him picking up prostitutes in New Orleans.” Shortly after graduation and before the alleged relationships began, he says Moore fell to “the Swaggart effect.”
“I just really don’t understand how someone can stand on the Ten Commandments, illegally in a courtroom,” the classmate says, “and still go out with underage girls.”
Moore and his campaign declined to give the Washington Examiner a comment on his classmate’s statements.
