WASHINGTON—By now, much of the United States knows that Roy Moore is vehemently anti-gay and anti-Muslim.

Lesser known fact: Roy Moore is vehemently anti-preschool.

In fact, he wrote in 2007, the very institution is a liberal conspiracy to indoctrinate vulnerable children . . . just as the Nazis did.

Moore won the Republicans’ Alabama primary for Jeff Sessions’s old Senate seat on Tuesday. His triumph, over a more moderate candidate backed by President Donald Trump, made national headlines.

If he beats Democratic lawyer Doug Jones in the December general election, the man sometimes known as the “Ten Commandments Judge” will become by far the most ideologically extreme member of the Republican caucus.

Moore, an evangelical Christian, has never been shy about his views about the immorality of homosexuality, the wrongness of Islam or the supremacy of God’s law over secular law.

He got kicked out of his job as Alabama’s Chief Justice in 2003 for refusing to accept a federal court order to remove the massive Ten Commandments monument he had installed in the rotunda of the Alabama Supreme Court building.

After getting elected once more in 2013, he got kicked out again in 2016 for ordering state judges to ignore the national legalization of same-sex marriage.

Some of his extreme views have remained largely unknown.

Such as his deep antagonism toward preschool.

He outlined his theory in 2007 in one of his regular columns on WorldNetDaily, a far-right website, while criticizing a proposal for universal preschool from then-senator Hillary Clinton.

Firebrand jurist Roy Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating an appointed incumbent, Sen. Luther Strange, backed by U.S. President Donald Trump in an upset likely to rock the GOP establishment. (The Associated P0

Citing studies, he said preschool has proven to be ineffective.

He argued it is dangerous.

“Why, then, do social liberals like Hillary Clinton push so hard for the expansion of preschool programs? Perhaps they understand the truth of Proverbs 22:6 better than most parents: ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and, when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ When the mind of a young child is subjected to state control before fundamental concepts and basic beliefs are formulated, the child is much more likely to learn a liberal social and political philosophy with the state as his or her master,” Moore wrote.

“Creation and God-given rights are more easily replaced with evolution and government-granted rights. Totalitarian regimes like those of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin knew well the value of a ‘youth corps.’ As Hans Schemm, leader of the Nazi Teacher’s League, once observed, ‘Those who have the youth on their side control the future.’”

When the Star asked whether Moore still holds his anti-preschool views, his campaign spokesperson and representatives of the foundation he started, the Foundation for Moral Law, did not respond.

Moore’s WorldNetDaily output included several examples of religious bigotry. In 2006, he argued that Congress should refuse to allow Minnesota Democratic congressman Keith Ellison, a Muslim, to be sworn in. Moore likened the Qur’an to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

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In another 2006 column, he criticized then-president George W. Bush for hiring an “open homosexual” as ambassador to Romania and an “admitted homosexual” to serve as global AIDS coordinator. That same year, he argued that the military was endangering the country by allowing Muslims to serve in the military and opening mosques on bases.

In 2007, he castigated the Senate for allowing a Hindu to deliver the opening prayer, saying the country’s founders “knew better.” In another column that year, he described Hinduism and Islam as “false” religions.

Many of his columns were conventional defences of the right of Christians to practice their faith in schools and other public institutions. Some of them included revealing personal tidbits; in 2007, he wrote that he and his wife had walked out of the film Alexander, which was released three years before that, in response to scenes that depicted same-sex relationships.

“Instead of a biographical story about the ancient Greek conqueror, we found ourselves walking out of a homosexual propaganda film,” Moore wrote.