Roy Moore Campaign Chairman Bill Armistead released a press release on Friday attacking Luther Strange for his shapeshifting stance towards Obamacare repeal.

On Friday morning, Luther Strange told CBS in an interview that he supported the “concept” of the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill; however, he wants to review the “specifics” of the bill regarding Alabama before he endorses the legislation.

“I support the concept of it very much so,” Strange told WIAT. “I haven’t seen the specifics of how it affects Alabama yet, so I’ve not signed off totally until I make sure our citizens are protected.”

Armistead argued that Strange’s changing stance towards Obamacare repeal makes him indicative of the Washington Swamp. Armistead said, “This morning in a CBS interview in Birmingham, Luther Strange put his swamp skills on full display, now saying that he cannot be certain to vote for the Graham-Cassidy version of the partial Obamacare repeal.”

The Roy Moore campaign chair added:

For several days now, Strange’s allies have been suggesting that Strange would be the better advocate for Alabama because he can work with the DC leadership and have used the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill as an example. They have said that Strange would work with them on a partial repeal of Obamacare to support the President, while Roy Moore would be too principled to achieve progress on either a full or partial repeal.

Now, Strange is saying that he likes certain aspects of the bill but cannot make a decision on whether he can vote for the bill. Ironically, Roy Moore takes the same exact position. However, their reasons for uncertainty are very different.

Strange wants to make sure that federal slush fund spending for programs is protected. Roy Moore wants to make sure that the federal government is getting out of the healthcare business entirely.

Armistead explained Moore and Strange hold fundamentally different views on the role of government in society; Moore wants to truly shrink the size of government, while Strange wants to make the government more efficient. Armistead charged:

This divergence in attitudes is perhaps the best example of why there is so much friction between establishment Republicans and conservatives. Conservatives like Roy Moore want the overspending stopped and for government to get smaller. Establishment Republicans like Luther Strange just want to work with liberals to manage the overspending and big government a little better.

Armistead concluded his statement by saying, “Perhaps this is why Alabama is losing its patience with Mitch McConnell and Luther Strange, and this is why Roy Moore will win the nomination on Tuesday.”

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A Christian pastor in Australia says militant gays and lesbians have disagreed so strongly with a sign his church posted that they’ve threatened to burn the church down.

Pastor John Gill of the Bellbowrie Community Church outside Brisbane said he received a surprising amount of hate after his church posted a sign that read, “God designed marriage between a man and a woman.”

“On Facebook, a lot of the stuff has been quite vicious at times,” Gill told the U.K. Daily Mail. “I mean quite physically threatening. That’s been scary for some in the church.”

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“One of the comments, for example, was a suggestion that people bring petrol down and set the church on fire,” he said.

Gill said he was taken aback by the amount of hate the sign seemed to cause. In a blog post on the church’s website, he defended the sign’s message.

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“The definition of marriage, is something the Bible speaks about, namely that marriage is not a human construct, but was designed by God in the beginning with a purpose, and is between a man and a woman,” Gill wrote. “This has been the norm for thousands of years, and has been the norm in Australia from the beginning.”

Tension is growing in Australia as the government is sending out postal ballots, due to be returned by Nov. 7, as part of a mail-in referendum asking Australians if homosexual marriage should be legalized. While the referendum is technically nonbinding, if the “yes” vote wins, legalization is likely to “sail” through parliament, according to The Economist.

Gill pointed out that Australians, no matter their faith or sexual orientation, are entitled to speak their minds. Anyone who disagrees with those views should still respect them, the pastor said, adding that people should never be attacked for their opinions.

Gill lamented the fact that the hate from the gay community made some members of his church fearful about expressing Christian viewpoints, but added that it was his role to tell people the word of God.

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Apparently that is enough to make some people uncomfortable.

“Many of us have friends and family who are gay, and it is absurd to think we hate them,” Gill wrote on the blog.

“Christians do not see their opposition to re-defining marriage, as necessarily an anti-gay stance,” Gill concluded, adding that they are simply opposed to changing the definition of marriage of what God intended.

Gill summed it up quite nicely, but the reaction from militants in the gay community demonstrate that the left, while it claims to be  tolerant and accepting, has a nasty habit of not practicing what it preaches.

H/T PJ Media

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Former Breitbart Senior Editor MILO has challenged Janet Napolitano, the President of the University of California system, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ to a debate.

In an emergency press conference discussing the cancellation of Free Speech Week, former Breitbart Senior Editor MILO challenged the current President of the University of California System Janet Napolitano and UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ to a live debate.

“I’m disappointed by Chancellor Christ’s and Janet Napolitano’s statements about me and about our speakers,” said MILO. “But I recognize and appreciate their commitment, however perfunctory it is, to providing funds to maintain the First Amendment on their campuses. I respect their difference of opinion, but I think they’re deeply misguided about what kinds of people we are. And for that reason, I’d like to invite today Janet Napolitano and Chancellor Christ to participate in a debate with me or with any of the other speakers that I’m able to assemble for Free Speech Week.

“We can have somebody like Sam Harris or Dave Rubin moderate it. We should do it on the UC Berkeley campus,” MILO continued “It is high time that America had it’s big showdown free speech debate between the progressive liberals, who believe that free speech is now just a cover for right-wingers to say awful things, and conservatives, who believe that their speech is being infringed upon by corporations, by universities, and by the media like it never has before.”

“It’s time America had that showdown, it’s time America had that debate, so I’m inviting today Janet Napolitano and Chancellor Christ from UC Berkeley to debate me and any of the other speakers they want to with a moderator of their choice on UC Berkeley campus anytime in the next seven months during my new Troll Academy tour,” he stated.

Watch the full press release below: