Leonard Leo sits on the board of the Catholic Information Center whose former head, John McCloskey, once said that it’s “not possible” to peacefully coexist w/ supporters of abortion rights & LGBTQ rights & implied it cld take a “relatively bloodless” civil war to resolve this. By Charles Pierce, 1/10/19 1/ esquire.com/news-politics/…
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6/ McCloskey left the Catholic Information Center after he was accused of sex abuse.
@gregolear 13/ This struck me too because a similar scenario is playing out in the Southern Baptist Convention (evangelicals) following a sprawling sex abuse scandal involving the ultra “conservative” members of the SBC.
@gregolear 14/ Leonard Leo reportedly belongs to Opus Dei btw.
“When The New York Times disclosed the existence of a new multipronged right-wing project, the Rockbridge Network, backed by multibillionaire Peter Thiel in April, the paper named only one person with an official position in the new organization: its founder, Chris Buskirk.” 1/ mediamatters.org/january-6-insu…
2/ Peter Thiel, Chris Buskirk, JD Vance, Rockbridge, 1789 Capital, Tucker
“Peter Thiel Explains the New 'National Conservatism' *** In short, it's using the power of the state to punish his enemies and make the world the way he wants it to be.” 7/17/19 (It was Thiel who spent $10 million to get JD Vance elected in 2022.) 1/ reason.com/2019/07/17/pet…
Peter Thiel founded PayPal, which “continued to grow through mergers with Elon Musk’s financial services company, in 2000…” (JD Vance is the latest Thiel/Musk joint venture.) 1/ X.com immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/peter-…
Peter Thiel has implied that giving women the right to vote was a mistake. He’s also a billionaire, self-professed “Christian,” & longtime critic of “multiculturalism” who bankrolled JD Vance in 2022. Some Christian extremists thus embrace him despite his homosexuality (he was outed by Gawker). 1/
“The American Moment ***
A JD Vance-backed project [and partner of Project 2025] wants to smash the institutions of liberal democracy. That's not good.” By Justin Ling, 7/16/24 1/ bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-american…