In case you haven’t heard, Roy Moore is seeking to reclaim his former position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court next month.

Besides raising fundamental questions about the rationale behind holding political elections for inherently non-partisan positions, Moore’s campaign has attracted a good deal of controversy due to his well-documented homophobic, theocratic and racist agenda.

At a rally in Fort Payne last week, Moore made headlines when he declared that “same-sex marriage will be the ultimate destruction of our country.” This is the same man who claimed that “homosexual behavior is … a crime against nature, an inherent evil, and an act so heinous that it defies one’s ability to describe it,” in the 2002 D.H. vs. H.H. LGBTQ rights case.

Like Moore, I am speechless. Words alone are incapable of describing such intolerance.

Additionally, while Moore professes a deep affinity for the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, this supposed strict constitutionalist has been ironically unable to grasp a key principle of the document: the separation of church and state.

Here is a man who used taxpayer dollars to install an elaborate monument of the Ten Commandments in the center of the Alabama Supreme Court building’s rotunda (it was later found to be unconstitutional and was ordered removed).

Here is a man who has pledged to “return God to our public life” and has explicitly stated that “separation of church and state does not mean separation of God and government” – so much for keeping the theological and political spheres separate.

Finally, Roy Moore is a racist.

In 2004, he opposed Amendment 2 to the Alabama Constitution, which would have removed language from the document referring to poll taxes and separate schools for “white and colored children.”

Further, in a 2006 column, Moore claimed that Keith Ellison of Minnesota (the first Muslim to sit in the U.S. Congress) shouldn’t have been allowed to serve since he took his oath of office on the Quran. Attempting to defend his position, Moore argued that “common sense dictates that in the midst of a war with Islamic terrorists, we should not place someone in a position of great power who shares their doctrine.”

Actually, common sense dictates that Roy Moore shouldn’t be allowed in any position of great power because he is a raving lunatic.

Moore is a demagogue, a sad and pathetic remnant of the tragic era of intolerance and segregation in the South; he is George Wallace 2.0. He says he cherishes the Constitution and civil liberties – unless, of course, those liberties belong to individuals outside his radical evangelical sphere (at which point he condemns them as evil threats to the social fabric of America).

Not surprisingly, Moore was unanimously removed from his post as chief justice in 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary after they ruled that his conduct “undercut the entire workings of the judicial system.” But Moore, undeterred, is back on the campaign trail and the ballot in 2012. Somehow, he still has strong support from the people.

The least Alabama voters can do is make sure on Nov. 6 that this radical doesn’t win the authority to interpret state law at the highest level. Moore is embarrassing not only himself but the entire state of Alabama.

In his 2005 autobiography, Moore reflected that his time as a rancher in Australia “was like going back in America 100 years. It was wonderful.”

Well, Mr. Moore, some of us don’t want to regress 100 years like you do. The last century has brought wonderful and much-needed progress in civil rights and social tolerance – movements which you are clearly determined to reverse. But just because you haven’t advanced past the homophobic, theocratic and racist ideologies of the last century doesn’t mean that the rest of us want to return to such a sad intellectual state.

As chief justice, Moore would be expected to uphold the law of man – not the law of God – objectively and serve all Alabamians, not just the conservative, evangelical, straight ones.

He has proven, time and time again, that he is incapable of fulfilling such a role.

Henry Downes is a sophomore majoring in economics. His column runs weekly.