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Andrew L. Seidel Profile picture
Andrew L. Seidel
@AndrewLSeidel
Attorney. Fighting Christian Nationalism. Defending the 1st Amendment. Author of The Founding Myth and American Crusade Life is too good to waste on bad ideas.
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Feb 29 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
🚨We need to talk about this alarming pressure campaign that's happening right now. An attempt to muzzle discussion, criticism, and reporting on the authoritarian Christian Nationalism that is working against American democracy and a free press.
In Dec., journalist @HeidiReports wrote a piece exposing how the dark money network that financed the conservative takeover of the courts is also backing the Christian Nationalist push to dismantle public education, with Oklahoma as a test case.
politico.com/news/2023/12/2…
Feb 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Despite Wheerler's unearned arrogance, @HeidiReports is absolutely correct. Rights given by a god can be taken away by men claiming to speak for that god. That's exactly the fight we're in now. That's what the Alabama Supreme Court just did with IVF. That's Christian Nationalism. Again, I tackle this all in The Founding Myth, including the inevitable rejoinder of misquoting the Declaration of Independence, usually as "endowed by Our Creator," including a look the natural law philosophy the Declaration relies on.
Here's a bit.
📖 bit.ly/TFMpaperback


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Jul 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Oh, it's so much worse than y'all think.

Hawley works at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian Nationalist legal outfit behind so many of the cases that are dragging this country back to a time when conservative, white Christian men ruled everything.

But there's more... ADF, with Hawley actually arguing the case, is behind the mifepristone case being litigated before Judge Kacsmaryk in Texas (Kacsmaryk worked for one of ADF's brother orgs in the Christian Nationalist space.)

But there's still more...
Dec 13, 2022 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
Thrilled to see my friend and colleague, @AmandaTylerBJC of @BJContheHill testifying about the threat White Christian Nationalism poses to a pluralist democracy. Speaking truth to power. Read more about the role the Christian Nationalism played in the January 6th insurrection here:
bjconline.org/jan6report/
Dec 7, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Moore v. Harper, a case that could effectively end the American experiment with democracy.

Wait, what?

Yup.

Let's take a quick look: Ostensibly, the case centers on the Independent State Legislature theory or doctrine, which is neither, but actually a nightmare born on the fringe of conservative legal thought that would help that fringe seize and retain power.
Dec 5, 2022 • 56 tweets • 11 min read
Ok, if you want to listen along, you can:
supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…

c-span.org/video/?524449-…

And let's just dispense with the idea that this is a case about, as we've seen lately, "L.G.B.T.Q. rights versus religious freedom."

It's about discrimination. ADF has been desperately seeking any means to legally discriminate against LGBTQ people. Religion. Speech. Whatever.
Dec 5, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in 303 Creative LLC case. This is the redo of the Masterpiece Cakeshop case (where a bakery refused to serve a gay couple claiming religion & speech, violating a civil rights law, and SCOTUS let the business get away with it). The same Christian nationalist org, Alliance Defending Freedom, is behind both cases. It’s got a long, disgusting anti-LGTBQ history. ADF is attacking the same civil rights statute in the new case. And ADF has made the exact same arguments in both cases. Image
Nov 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I interviewed Schenck for an update to American Crusade in Sept. This brilliant @Jo_Becker @jodikantor story is about more than a leak: a Christian Nationalist ministry dedicated to emboldening the court. It succeeded. Schenck told me he found a "very, very wide open portal." These justices now are drunk on power. We need immediate ethics reform and court expansion if we are going to begin to check this unchecked body, begin to right the wrong of capturing, packing, and politicizing the third branch.

Schenk's operation worked.
Nov 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People are rightly ripping this ad for a number of reasons. But it also showcases an ideology that inspires political violence and encourages people to reject the results of free and fair elections. ... If you believe that your candidate was chosen by your god to lead and "protect," how can he possibly lose an election? He cannot. It MUST have been stolen. How else to explain the foiling of your gods plan?
Sep 6, 2022 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
Couy Griffin is now "constitutionally disqualified from serving" in public office under the 14th Amendment.

Griffin was featured in the expert report, "Christian Nationalism at the January 6, 2021, Insurrection" because he led the mob in Christian prayer.
nytimes.com/2022/09/06/us/… That report cataloged the role Christian Nationalism played in the insurrection and included contributions from top experts, such as @JemarTisby, @AntheaButler, @kathsstewart, @ndrewwhitehead, @profsamperry, and @AmandaTylerBJC.
bjconline.org/jan6report/

Griffin is in there.
Jul 1, 2022 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
🇺🇸🧵A Fourth of July THREAD🧵🇺🇸
As we go into the Fourth of July weekend with fewer freedoms than several weeks ago, let me remind my fellow Americans of a few important things:

America is not a Christian nation. America was not founded as a Christian nation and our Constitution was not based on Judeo-Christian principles.
May 18, 2022 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
Let’s talk about how damn scary it is that a virulent Christian Nationalist, intimately tied to the January 6th insurrection and the Big Lie, might be Pennsylvania’s governor and in charge of its elections. A #thread on Doug Mastriano @SenMastriano
🧵 Buckle up🧵 I know about Mastriano because of my work exposing the links between Christian Nationalism and the January 6th insurrection, which can be found in the huge report on that subject released with brilliant contributions from leading experts.
bjconline.org/jan6report/
Apr 29, 2022 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
I can’t fathom a federal judge calling a party deceitful, then only featuring that voice in news coverage of the case. There were no parents, community or school district voices. This is just so disappointing and really drags down The Daily’s reputation in my eyes. We begin the pod by hearing about a coach who was fired for praying. But he wasn’t fired. The school district tried to accommodate his prayers, he was put on paid leave when he refused those accommodations, and when his annual contract expired, he didn’t reapply. He wasn’t fired.
Apr 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
If white Christian nationalism isn't a threat to you, it's because you're a white Christian nationalist. Some more context from my friend, @ardenthistorian :
Jan 15, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Christian groups like the Good News Club use public schools to proselytize other people's children. This terrible idea was unconstitutional until SCOTUS ok'ed it in 2001 in a case brought by the Christian Nationalist legal outfit ADF (Hobby Lobby, gay wedding cake case). The After School Satan club is only possible because evangelical Christians insisted on using the machinery of the state to proselytize.

So if you're angry about this, take it up with the "religious freedom" champions at ADF.

This is what a equality looks like.

But wait,...
Nov 1, 2021 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
If we stop expecting intellectual and doctrinal consistency from this Supreme Court, we'll stop being so disapppointed.

If we stop expecting decisions based on legal principle instead of politics, we might stop getting blindsided by vicious decisions. On that note, the Court is hearing arguments against the Texas abortion ban, SB8, and began by honoring Thomas's 30 years on the court. That's far too many. And he spent them trying to undermine reproductive rights, among other things.
supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…
Aug 19, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I've refrained from commenting on the Library of Congress bomber. Now we know:
Trump voter.
Fan of Huckabee.
Used #GodIsGood.
Said, "I'm an American patriot" and talked of how is Uncle Doug "served his God."
And well, here's a social media post of his:
#ChristianNationalism I've spoken of Christian Nationalism as a permission structure that justifies otherwise immoral acts by appealing to a higher power. This bomber told his livestream audience, "I've clear my conscience with God."

He said he'd "be home Sunday, whichever home it is," i.e., Heaven.
Aug 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I see you saying there's no point getting vaxxed because you can still get and spread Delta.😡
1) If—instead of politicizing the lethal virus and suing to worship in church—you had stayed home, masked, and gotten vaxxed in the first place, we wouldn't have so many awful variants. So yes, your selfish decision to subjugate our shared humanity to your comfort and convenience risked and still risks the health and safety of others.

Basically, by helping undermine public health measures, you helped create a virus more transmissible than Ebola. So well done.
Aug 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hi,
Constitutional attorney here.

Your freedom is not unlimited. All of your rights are limited in some way: free speech, religious freedom, 2nd Amendment, privacy (even in your home).

Most obviously, your freedom isn't a license to harm or risk the lives and health of others. Your "freedom" doesn't include the right to drive drunk.
Your 2nd Amendment "freedom" doesn't let you carry a gun on a plane.
Your freedom of speech doesn't include defamation.
Your home can be searched with a warrant.
Your religious freedom ends where others' rights begin.
Jul 16, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Some parasitic insects lay their eggs in other living things. The larvae hatch and eat the live host from the inside out, leaving an empty shell behind.

The Supreme Court is doing the same with the Voting Rights Act, state/church separation, and, coming soon, abortion rights. SCOTUS is leaving behind the empty shells of the Voting Rights Act, the First Amendment, and reproductive rights, while not actually striking down any statutes or overturning any precedent. This one weird trick suggests incremental change, not massive legal rewrites.
Mar 25, 2021 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
The Supreme Court is going to hand down the decision on whether the Catholic Chruch’s foster care services in Philadelphia can discriminate against LGBTQ people any day now (Fulton v. Philadelphia). With this court, I’m not optimistic. Here’s what I’ll be looking for… First, Sotomayor’s dissent. Because she’ll get it right. Read that first. I have little hope that she'll be writing the majority opinion. The Supreme Court is broken, politically packed, hopelessly Christian nationalist.

If you don’t know the Fulton case, it’s pretty simple....