You need to know about two very important amicus briefs filed in the #DobbsvJackson case before #SCOTUS. When contrasted they are worth their weight in gold for a Presidential vote at #SBC2022. Let's consider: (1) @ERLC's and (2) Abolitionists'.
2/20 Let us contrast each brief on three points: (1) Filers or amici curiae (friends of the court); (2) List of authorities; and, (3) aims. Ask yourself, "Which amicus speaks for me?" For clarity, let's call them the RC/ERLC and FAA briefs.
3/20 RC/ERLC FILERS: The @ERLC did not write their own amicus, but signed onto one written and submitted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Filers include three other Roman Catholic orgs, Lutherans, and Nat'l Assoc of Evang. Who's NAE? supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/1…
4/20 The National Association of Evangelicals is a progressive group pushing LGBTQ+ agendas. @DennyBurk rightly exposed their "Fairness for All" campaign: "This is a disaster. . . . I will do everything I can to oppose NAE and CCCU in this." Read his 🧵.
5/20 FAA FILERS: Abolitionists signed onto an amicus brief written by Baptist attorney, @bradleywpierce, for the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, @AbolitionistFAA. faa.life/dobbs-brief on behalf of many abolitionist orgs all affirming sola Scriptura.
6/20 RC/ERLC Authorities: Nowhere is God’s Word referenced. You'll find Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, & Vatican II but Scripture is absent. @ERLC calls upon papists and progressives to represent Southern Baptists instead of God’s Word?? Thus, why we call it the RC/ERLC brief.
7/20 FAA Authorities: The first authority of the abolitionist argument against Roe v. Wade is the Holy Bible (2 Cor 10:4-5). God’s Word was brought before the Supreme Court as the Abolitionist Movement declared to the justices the higher court before Whom they must bow.
8/20 Should the SBC be led by the Roman Catholic Church in this battle, or should the @ERLC lead the SBC to respond biblically instead of depending on the Roman Catholic Church and progressive NAE for its talking points and strategy?
9/20 RC/ERLC AIMS: “The Mississippi legislation should be upheld.” What, you may ask, does the Mississippi legislation determine? Their answer: “Except in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality, a person shall not intentionally or knowingly perform...
10/20 induce, or attempt to perform or induce an abortion of an unborn human being if the probable gestational age of the unborn human being has been determined to be greater than fifteen (15) weeks.” The RC/ERLC brief argues for regulating abortion as healthcare after 15 weeks..
11/20 meaning: (1) innocent children from the age of fertilization to 14 weeks 6 days are passed over with no protection under the law, and (2) homicide of all children is not included in the homicide codes for all born children. The RC/ERLC letter promotes partiality that...
12/20 God calls an “abomination” (Proverbs 17:15; 18:5). Over and against the RC/ERLC brief God demands, “You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. . . . Justice, and only justice, you shall follow” (Deuteronomy 16:19-20).
13/20 The RC/ERLC brief also requests that the court not treat abortion as a Constitutional issue: “If it continues to treat abortion as a constitutional issue, this Court will face yet more questions downstream about what sorts of abortion regulations are permissible.” This...
14/20 argument is based on the assertion that the Constitution is silent on abortion, which assumes that preborn children are not “people.” If the preborn child is a person, then abortion would be outlawed by the fifth amendment, which states...
15/20 “No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The RC/ERLC brief does not recognize or assert personhood from fertilization. BFM2K states, "Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord."
16/20 FAA AIMS: “Above all, the purpose of filing the brief was to glorify God. We aim in the brief to be respectful of the constitutional institution of the Court, yet strong and in earnest. God’s image is being slain with impunity and His law is being trampled underfoot....
17/20 "Children are dying and so is our country unless something seriously changes.” Also, “The brief was an opportunity...to leave a historical record of standing for life and justice against tyranny.”
Which amicus brief speaks for you? Does the RC/ERLC speak for you?
18/20 The @ERLC has lost its way. Sadly, instead of principally & powerfully representing Southern Baptists & our Lord according to His Word, they have veiled the Truth, veered from the BF&M2K, & swerved from the heart of and call from the messengers. sbc.net/resource-libra…
20/20 @tomascol has steadfast endurance & hardy resilience due to his settled confidence: "We have a Book!" "Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men, lauding them for their courage."
This is the kind of resolution that should be a no brainer for the @ERLC and SBC. "Resolution on Equal Protection of the Laws for Preborn" Read and sign! Childrenhttps://forms.gle/sR71x5jHLaQPA8QH9
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🧵 EXPOSED: The Trump Administration just unveiled the (not so) hidden truth behind COVID-19.
How the media, Fauci, and evangelical darling, Francis Collins, controlled the narrative, and the brave doctors who stood up against it.
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New House COVID report just blew up the old narrative: emails show Dr. Fauci personally asked scientists to draft “Proximal Origin”—the paper media used to brand the lab‑leak idea a “conspiracy.”
A lab accident during risky gain‑of‑function work is “the most likely origin” of COVID‑19.
Current U.S. oversight? “Incomplete, severely convoluted, and useless globally.”
On January 31, 2020, Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease expert, emailed Dr. Fauci, noting, "The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered," and added that he and others found the genome inconsistent with evolutionary theory.
What’s happening in Colorado should wake up every Christian and every freedom-loving American. The Colorado legislature is marching headlong into totalitarianism—and they are coming for your family, your faith, and your speech.
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HB25-1312 would allow the state to steal children from parents who refuse to go along with transgender ideology. Read that again.
Refuse to lie about your child’s God-given identity? The state will come for them.
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Alongside it are bills that criminalize “misgendering” and “deadnaming”—in other words, the state is now attempting to outlaw and wage war on the truth.
If you say what is biologically and biblically true, you are now the criminal.
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Over the past five weeks leading up to yesterday's committee deadline, eight of my bills passed committee and are (or will very shortly be) eligible for a hearing on the House floor. This thread will highlight a few of them. (1/6)
First, SB550. This bill bans drag queens from perverse story hours on public property because we must protect our children from those who wish to sexualize them. It passed the Public Safety Committee 8-3.
If anyone wants to defend these twisted and perverse events, which are often marketed to children, please go watch the short YT documentary from @TexasScorecard, "It's Not Gonna Lick Itself", and get back to me.
I hesitate to even include the name of the documentary because of how gross it is, but exposing the vileness of what's being done to our kids sometimes means coming face-to-face with how disgusting it is. That was the name of a real drag event marketed to children. (2/6)
SB1121 is a bill to establish a joint House-Senate task force, with no fiscal impact to the state, to study what it would take to eliminate property taxes and replace the revenues with, ideally, consumption taxes and hopefully DOGE-like spending cuts. It passed the Revenue and Taxation Committee 8-3.
This bill was introduced alongside SJR12 which would be an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution to entirely repeal property taxes in Oklahoma. Sadly, SJR12 did not receive a hearing, but we can still get the ball rolling with this task force, even though the real teeth are in SJR12. (3/6)
🧵Contra Mr. Pornlawyer, publicly publishing prostitution footage is not "speech" in any meaningful sense.
Let's look at SCOTUS precedent.
The Miller Test, established in Miller v. California (1973), holds that "obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment." (1/10)
According to Miller, content can be banned if:
1. the average person would find that it appeals to the prurient interest;
2. the content depicts sexual conduct as defined by state law; and
3. the content lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. (2/10)
There is no question that modern pornography meets the standard of prongs 1 and 3. The only thing missing is prong 2: an Oklahoma law defining and prohibiting pornography. That is where my bill (SB593) comes in. (3/10)
In line with the MAHA agenda, I have introduced six bills to improve quality, transparency, accountability, decentralization, and freedom in health and medical care.
First, SB943, the Medical Freedom Act, would establish that “The right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, medical treatment, device, vaccine, or prophylactic shall not be questioned or interfered with in any manner. The right of a person to public accommodation, to the equal protection of the law, and to seek restitution for harm shall not be denied or infringed upon because of the exercise of the rights contained in this section.”
This bill comes from model language written by @RMConservative. (1/9)
The Health Education Act is a bill to ensure that public school health curriculum stays in their proper lane of teaching nutrition, exercise, and physical health rather than wading into liberal versions of sex ed and psychological counseling that should be left to parents. (2/9)
Regarding this bill, as well as SB1017, I will be speaking at a rally on February 7th at the Capitol alongside other colleagues concerned with the problem of ever-expanding school-based health care that infringes upon parental rights.
The radical left has destroyed the foundations of Christian civilization such that many now consider normal a society drowning in hardcore pornography, prenatal homicide, and other evils. I introduced 8 bills to change that. (1/16)
First, the Abolition of Abortion Act (SB456). While Oklahoma clinics no longer perform abortion, ordering and ingesting abortion pills remains legal and accessible because of massive loopholes in our pro-life laws. We must close those loop holes.
Recently published research from @AbolitionistFAA shows that an estimated 3,274 of these self-managed abortions are occurring in Oklahoma annually. (2/16)
You can read the report here. We must not close our eyes to the continued reality of child sacrifice in pro-life states. We cannot ask God's blessing on our nation as we turn a blind eye to the mass murder of the innocent. We must abolish abortion. (3/16)