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/
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.
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…
JD Vance is reportedly on Trump’s VP short list after billionaire Peter Thiel spent $10 million to get Vance elected. Vance apparently thinks that women should remain in violent marriages. Christian extremists love him. 1/ #BiblicalPatriarchy
They scammed the country. Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch says that abortion isn’t a “states rights” issue after all. Nope. They plan to use the 14th Amendment to overturn state constitutional amendments protecting abortion rights. He also calls SCOTUS the “Leo court.” 1/
Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch opines that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution may preclude states from allowing abortions & implies that they may take it to court, presumably meaning SCOTUS, which he calls the “Leo Court” (See post 2). 1/
😳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/
Here’s a longer version of the clip. In it, Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch says that Clarence Thomas was trying to give them guidance as to where Dobbs (the case overturning Roe) could take us and mentions his “friend Charles Koch.” 2/