1/7 - An actual 2000 statement from the Family Research Council (@FRCdc) presents starkly their Christian supremacism: “While it is true that the United States of America was founded on the sacred principle of religious freedom for all, that liberty was never intended ..."
2/7 - "... to exalt other religions to the level that Christianity holds in our country’s heritage...Our founders expected that Christianity — and no other religion — would receive support from the government as long as that support did not violate peoples’ consciences ..."
3/7 - "... and their right to worship."
Here we see views that stand in direct challenge of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, & of the fact that religion in America should not be established or reinforced by the government, as a hierarchy dominated by any one faith.
Here we see views that stand in direct challenge of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, & of the fact that religion in America should not be established or reinforced by the government, as a hierarchy dominated by any one faith.
4/7 - This seems what the Dominionists want. Is it also perhaps what evangelical leaders who are supporters of @GOP Religious Right & @realDonaldTrump still want in 2019, such as @Franklin_Graham, @JerryFalwellJr, @GovMikeHuckabee, @robertjeffress, and the @700club organization?
5/7 - I observe that, as with the issues of climate change, income inequality, and many other Progressive causes, the @realDonaldTrump support sect within Evangelical Christianity is content to remain silent about statements such as @FRCdc's if they indeed oppose them at all.
6/7 - Okay, maybe not silent always, but when they speak it is as usual indirect: smears of liberalism, progressivism, * secularism have become common methods of leverage by Religious Right leaders, tacit & definite approval/disapproval to keep us within #MAGAfestDestiny bounds.
7/7 - And, not unexpectedly, an update: We see that @FRCdc has weighed in on the Christianity Today editorial calling for the impeachment of @realDonaldTrump in an utterly unsurprising fashion: They say in their own editorial that CT has impeached its own credibility. Of course.
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