Christian Nationalists Are Drafting Legislation for State Republicans: Report
According to the report, Christian nationalist groups have concocted a legal strategy called Project Blitz designed to get anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice bills before state legislatures.
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Though Democrats have regained significant ground on the state level since the 2016 election , state legislation is still largely a Republican game, with the GOP in charge of 21 trifectas , in addition to eight more GOP-controlled legislatures. Within this red empire, Christian nationalists — who believe the United States was founded as a Christian nation and consider the separation of church and state to be a fraud — are exerting substantial pressure by drafting legislation for friendly lawmakers, according to Sludge , an investigative outlet covering lobbying and money in politics.
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The Project Blitz handbook is split into three categories, based on the level of pushback a prospective bill might place:
All this is minor — though more effective in the long haul effort of turning the U.S. into a theocracy — compared to the rhetoric of Matt Shea , the former chair of the Republican caucus in Washington’s state legislature. A far-right legislator, Shea developed a plan for Eastern Washington to secede and become a conservative theocracy known as “Liberty State,” and helped plot and promote “a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States Government in three states outside the state of Washington over a three-year period,” according to a report commissioned by Washington’s House of Representatives.
Though Shea is an outlying example, members of the Trump administration are doing their part through official channels to theocratize the federal government with a level of influence Project Blitz could only dream of. Last year, Pompeo’s State Department founded an affinity group featuring evangelical speakers and focusing on “how being a disciple of Christ impacts your professional experience at the State Department.” Meanwhile, Vice-President Mike Pence has worked to undermine the Department of Health and Human Services, which is responsible for the government funding of Planned Parenthood. Together, they are a formidable team aligning American foreign policy with evangelical eschatology .
So much for limited government.
Indeed. Are there any 2 words scarier when put together than "Christian Nationalist?"
bible thumper
No, there isn't. Those people don't want you to have rights that you would like to have, like the choice of religion. That's the biggie right there. Once the separation of church and state has been erased The Handmaid's Tale won't be a work of fiction any longer.
I think any combination of "religious extremist" "Islamic terrorist", "Christian terrorist", "white nationalist" or "white supremacist" rank right up there alongside "Christian Nationalist" in what rational humans recognize they should avoid and fear. All are descriptions of unhinged lunatics willing to use violence to force their sick ideology on those around them.
Don't forget dominionist.
Oh yeah, those secular progressives are coming to get you and take away your religious rights. Better hide under your bed. >sarc <
Because discrimination against LGTB persons regarding housing and employment is only legal in thirty states?
Because making abortions illegal or just extremely hard to get does one thing to reduce the demand for termination services?
Get outta here!
And, rightwings have the gall to say I am hyperbolic when I say that the freedoms we enjoy are in peril? When I say that the survival of our Republic is in jeopardy? That our Constitution is at risk?
Trumpism is dangerous to The American Way.
That is not a question!
Yet another reason churches should lose their tax exempt status.
Oklahoma's Senior US Senator James Mountain "Jack" Inhofe helped "Christian" legislators in Uganda draft their "Kill The Gays" legislation. Jack Inhofe was doing his part to spread God's word. Gag! So, "Praise the Lord and pass the reelection plate!"
Eighty year olde Inhofe is running for reelection and his is considered a 100% safe seat for the gop. "Oklahoma - Buckle of the Bible Belt", they say...
They also say Jesus Crist abhorres Jack Inhofe /s.
Actually, Inhofe is EIGHTY FIVE YEARS OLDE!
Well, at least the MAGA folk are being up front about this.
Its Obvious these folks believe the point of being religious is to keep other people down.
We are moving back to the middle ages.
Not if you, we, can help it! (Smile.) The future is ahead of us. We've lost nothing already lived and done with!
Not sure why people get up in arms over a seed like this. There are outside groups that try to write up and push laws at all levels of government, from all sides of the political spectrum. Some of the write-up's are good and some are not. Regardless of what group writes them or what they are trying to push, it still comes down to the laws must be written, legislated, voted on and signed into law. And once it is signed into law if it is a bad law some other group will take it to court on constitutional grounds.
I see seeds like this as typical party politics pushing fear of the other side.
I think you're right. It's a trigger for a lot of people though, one often put out to get a react-before-thinking effect. The Christians are coming to get you!!!
Not all Christians, though. Just more of the meddlesome and busybody types. I'm just saying.
Just replace project blitz with the green new deal, it still has to pass the legislatures, governors, and courts.
Some have no problem with Christian Nationalist having this much influence in government, most however do, and for good reason. When religion and government hook up, the result is a malformed, disease ridden carcass. History is rife with examples of such.
I'll bet there are those actually want religion in the government. Ofor course, as long as it's their religion that is.