Pastors Start Jumping Ship on Moore Endorsement

Kayla Moore may be singing "Stand By Your Man," but a pair of pastors who signed a letter of support are apparently jumping ship.

As Judge Roy Moore's candidacy for Alabama's open US Senate seat hangs in the balance due to mounting accusations of a history of sexual aggression on underage girls, his wife, appears to have gone into overdrive on social media to protect (or at least maintain) what's left of her husband's reputation. The trouble is, not everyone is signed on - literally.

On Sunday, Kayla Moore, wife of embattled GOP Senate hopeful Roy Moore, posted a letter to Facebook that showed support from more than 50 Alabama pastors. But that letter appears to have been recycled from before the GOP primary in September and pre-dated allegations that her husband has sexual contact with a 14-year-old when he was a 32-year-old prosecutor and pursued three other women as teenagers.

Now, some of the pastors whose names appear on the letter of support that describes Moore as an "immovable rock in the culture wars," want out.

Tijuanna Adetunji of the Fresh Anointing House of Worship in Montgomery told AL.com that she was not contacted about the letter and did not give permission for her name to be used.

Pastor Thad Endicott similarly seemed unwilling to turn the other cheek on the Moore endorsement and told AL.com that he was not contacted about the most recent post from Kayla Moore.

"The list that has recently circulated was evidently copied and pasted from the August endorsements without checking to see if I still endorsed Moore," said Endicott.

Endicott, the pastor at Heritage Baptist Church, asked that his name be removed from the Moore endorsement.

Kayla Moore is president of Foundation for Moral Law, an organization whose mission statement is "To defend the right to acknowledge God, America's Christian heritage, and the U.S. Constitution." According to Heavy.com, she married Moore in 1985 and was his legal secretary while he was in private practice. She also founded her own small business, KDM Marketing Company, and worked on his political campaigns. She also competed in Miss Alabama USA and Miss Alabama World pageants as a teen.