White Protestant Evangelical officials in Alabama have turned to the Bible in defence of Roy Moore, accused of sexual molestation of a girl fourteen years old when he was in his thirties. The worst abuse of the Bible in defence of Moore was committed by Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler, who dragged the conception and birth of the Lord Jesus Christ into the sordid affair:

Alabama state auditor defends Judge Roy Moore against accused of sexual misconduct with a 14-year-old, invokes Mary and Joseph

Judge Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Alabama's upcoming special Senate election, denies allegations that he romantically pursued teenagers as young as 14 when he was in his 30s. Even if the allegations are true, one statewide elected official in Alabama said it's "much ado about nothing." . . .

“He’s clean as a hound’s tooth,” Ziegler claimed, before relying on Scripture to defend Moore.

“Take the Bible. Zachariah and Elizabeth for instance. Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth and they became the parents of John the Baptist,” Ziegler said choosing his words carefully before invoking Christ. “Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.”

“There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here,” Ziegler concluded. “Maybe just a little bit unusual.”

A Republican Just Used Jesus To Justify Roy Moore’s Alleged Underage Sexual Scandal

A top Alabama Republican elected official just used the worst excuse ever to try and whitewash his party’s Senate candidate who stands accused of pedophilia, an act which he doesn’t deny or dispute. . .

“There is nothing to see here,” Alabama State Auditor Jim Ziegler told the Washington Examiner…. “He’s clean as a hound’s tooth,” Ziegler claimed, before relying on Scripture to defend Moore.

“Take the Bible. Zachariah and Elizabeth for instance. Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth and they became the parents of John the Baptist,” Ziegler said choosing his words carefully before invoking Christ.

“Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.” . . .

What’s even more creepy about the Alabama Auditor’s religious excuses, is that Ziegler himself has a teenage daughter named Mary Magdalene. (Biographical hyperlink and italics in the original.)

Here is a clear demonstration of the abomination of mixing Christianiy with politics, which is a deeply corrupting influence. It is also evidence of the astonishing ignorance of Bible facts and principles in the Evangelical world, of which Ziegler is a member. Furthermore, one cannot escape the implication that Joseph and Mary engaged in fornication before their marriage, which would be an echo of the dastardly accusation by the Jews that Jesus was illegitimate. Whether or not this was the intention of Ziegler, there is the larger question of his apparent abysmal ignorance of the facts of Jesus' conception and birth as provided in the gospels. Even taking into account the Bible illiteracy of contemporary Christianity, it is reasonable to expect that a Protestant Christian would know the basic facts of Jesus' identity as "Immanuel" - "God with us." Such an expectation is reasonable even considering the probability that Ziegler is unaware of the awesome majesty of the risen Christ revealed in the first chapter of the Book of Revelation, verses 10-18.

In the Gospels, the virginity of Mary is firmly established with specificity by Matthew (Matt. 1:18-25,) and Luke who quotes the statement from the mouth of Mary herself (Luke 1:34.) There is no excuse for a Christian to be unaware of these facts.

Delving a little more deeply, these words of the angel Gabriel are profoundly significant: "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35.) Jesus Christ was not the natural son of Joseph. He had no earthly father, but was conceived of the Holy Spirit, and was thus the Son of God by birth as well as the Son of Man by lineage through Mary. As the God-Man, He was the Son of God by decree (Heb. 1:5; Psalm 2:7,) and by the resurrection from the dead (Rom. 1:3-4.) Of further profound significance, He has been highly exalted as God (Phil. 2:9-11; Heb. 1:8-13.) The last referenced text also reveals His role as the Creator (Gen. 1.) Wonder of wonders!! - By agreement between God the Father and God the Holy Spirit divinity has been united with humanity in the person of Jesus Christ, and received into the very midst of the Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit! These facts of the Bible must not be trivialized and trodden underfoot by the profanity of men whose minds are under the control of Satan!

True Christians understand and conform to the following standard:

With rev'rence let the saints appear,

And bow before the Lord;

His high commands with rev'rence hear,

And tremble at his word,

And tremble at his word.