Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore co-authored a 2011 study course in which a speaker contended women should not be allowed to run for public office and, if they did, people have a moral obligation not to vote for them, Think Progress reported.
The course, "Law and Government: An Introductory Study Course," was authored by Moore, Doug Phillips, Dr. Joseph C. Morecraft, and Dr. Paul Jehle and is currently available on Amazon.
The study includes a lecture from William O. Einwechter, a teacher elder at Immanuel Free Reformed Church. The lesson, titled "What the Bible Says About Female Magistrates," contends the Bible forbids women from holding elected office.
"She's not a warrior. She's not a judge. She's a woman. Created by God. Glorious in her place and in her conduct and in her role," Einwechter said. "Nothing is said in scripture that supports the notion that she is qualified or called to be a civil magistrate."
Einwechter ends the lecture with statement saying that Christians cannot vote for a woman, no matter their politics.
The study set was a product of Vision Forum, a Texas-based evangelical group led by Doug Phillips. Moore was a contributor to Vision's Witherspoon School of Law and Public Policy, a series of courses designed to teach public policy and ethics to its attendees.
Vision Forum closed in 2013 after Phillips resignation following his admission of an extra-marital relationship. The woman in the relationship, Lourdes Torres-Manteufel, later sued Phillips and Vision Forum in connection to a relationship that she said began when she was 15.
Moore has been accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with teenage girls in the 1970s.