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Apr 17 1 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Why should you care about the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)? For one thing, it’s enormous & thus enormously influential, especially for the Christian Right. The SBC is already extremely “conservative,” but it’s not yet extreme enough for those who hope to take control of it during the SBC election in June.

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In 2023, Heritage boasted that “The Left is right to fear our plan [Project 2025] to gut the federal bureaucracy.” After backlash, they falsely accused “liberal media” of exaggerating their intentions: “We’re not out to…radically restructure the whole system.” Uh huh. Listen 1/
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Apr 29
Robert George—a Leonard Leo confidante & Princeton professor—claims that embryos are “persons” under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, giving them equal protection under the law. Translation: abortion = murder, and states have NO right to allow abortion access. 1/
2/ Robert George made these remarks during an appearance two years ago on EWTN, the largest Catholic media network in the country. Here’s the link.
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3/ Here’s a great article by John Gehring that discusses, among other things, Robert George’s close relationship with SCOTUS puppet master Leonard Leo. ncronline.org/news/leonard-l…
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2/ Here’s the “Leo Court” part.
3/ These remarks are from 2022. Here’s the link.
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2/ Here’s the “Leo Court” part.
3/ These remarks are from the Napa Institute Conference in July 2022. Link.
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😳Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch opines that state constitutional amendments protecting abortion rights conflict w/ the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which he says gives that “right [to life] to the unborn.” Implies they will ask SCOTUS to overturn such state amendments. 1/
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