“Homosexuality is a sin in the Biblical sense. That is where Roy Moore is and the state of Alabama is,” campaign spokesman for Roy Moore said on CNN. | Brynn Anderson/AP Photo Moore 'probably' still thinks homosexuality should be illegal, spokesman says

A spokesman for Roy Moore’s campaign said Tuesday that the Republican Senate candidate “probably” still thinks that homosexuality should be illegal.

“Homosexuality is a sin in the Biblical sense. That is where Roy Moore is and the state of Alabama is,” campaign spokesman Ted Crockett said on CNN hours before polls were to close in Alabama. Moore subsequently lost the Senate election to Democrat Doug Jones.


Asked whether he believed that Roy Moore thinks homosexual conduct should be illegal, Crockett said, “Probably.” Pressed by CNN about what the punishment should be for homosexuality, Crockett added, “It’s just a sin, OK?”

“You people want to take the whole 2,000 or 3,000 years of our history and y’all just want to throw it out the window as if you’re going to make your own rules, your own man-made rules and do whatever you want in sin, and that’s part of the problem we’ve got in Washington, D.C., today,” Crockett continued.

Moore said in a 2005 interview that “homosexual conduct” should be illegal.

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Crockett later tried to explain Moore’s contention that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress by saying they’d have to be sworn in on the Bible.

Informed by CNN that elected officials don’t actually have to swear on a Christian Bible, Crockett said, “Oh no, I swore on the Bible. I’ve done it three times.” He then paused, as if surprised by the news that there is no law requiring officials to be sworn in using the Bible.

“I know that Donald Trump did it when we made him president,” he said.

Polls in Alabama closed at 8 p.m. Eastern. Moore was defeated by Jones in a campaign that has sparked a national debate over sexual harassment and assault. Moore has been accused of preying on teenage girls when he was in his 30s, allegations that he denies.

Crockett, Moore’s spokesman, has sent emails to POLITICO reporters in recent months criticizing their reporting — often using colorful language.

“Since the left wing cannot get their way it looks like racist attacks on white men is a sign of MSM impotent rage. Andre Mitchell should be sued for this same outrageous racist attack on white people,” Crockett wrote in May in an email to this reporter, presumably referring to NBC News journalist Andrea Mitchell. “We are not going to take this racist hate speech from you eunuchs not now, not ever! Gird your loins.”

In response to a POLITICO Magazine profile of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), he simply declared: “She is a fat pig!”

Other emails criticized former President Barack Obama and praised Donald Trump.

“Obama spread our money around like cow manure,” Crockett wrote in June. “He was a coward and a liar who sold out America and Americans at every turn! Finally a President with real balls and a Yankee Capitalist at that!”

Others denounced POLITICO reporting. In response to an article about the president’s sluggish hiring for key anti-terrorism jobs, Crockett wrote, “Oh Please! What a left wing Dem slant. Trump is doing just fine taking on you Nancy Boys!”

Crockett confirmed that the email address used to write the emails was his. And a website linked the email address to Crockett, a former Shelby County commissioner.

Kevin Robillard contributed to this report.

