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August 14, 2018
The Christian Right Owns Trump: He Has Done Our Bidding And Opened The Floodgates of Discrimination! Glory Hallelujah!
By Rev. Dan Vojir
So who OWNS Trump? Does Putin? Does the Christian Right? Do Both?
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*Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.- Barry Goldwater
35% of this country has checked out. They have joined a cult.They are obedient. They are obedient to the leader." -- Steve Schmidt to Bill Maher
The above may be true, but who is the REAL leader of the cult?
On November 12, 2012, I published an article titled: Prepare For The Worst: Holding The Christofascist Tiger At Bay After The Election. and I ended it with:
" ...suggestions of violence and outright oppression have surfaced to the extent that America must watch the machinations of the Right's radical religious agenda no matter what the outcome of the election."
A bit prescient, perhaps, and certainly true today, but we cannot hold the tiger at bay anymore, since Trump has gleefully let it out of its cage.
Tony Perkins(Family Research Council)
The announcement of the creation of a new Religious Liberty Task Force by Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the launch of the next phase of President Trump's campaign promise to protect the religious freedoms of all Americans.
When Justice Kennedy announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, you could actually hear the faint sound of a low purr: the Tiger was ready, willing and able to pounce. Perkins should have said - more truthfully - "...to protect the religious freedom of Christians ONLY." His BFF, the vitriolic Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association has stated that only Christians have the protections and rights stated in the Constitution.
One could say that Trump is an "enabler" of the CR, but that is too weak of a word to describe the Trump administration's role in stripping away LGBTQ rights. "EMBOLDENED" is more like it: with Jeff Sessions' creation of the "Task Force," the Christian Right can now bully its way through gay, lesbian, transgender, and pro-choice advocates and even laws protecting them against discrimination.
Mediate reports that Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ hate group with several former staffers firmly embedded in the Trump administration, is largely behind the task force's formation.
"ADF holds dozens of extreme anti-LGBTQ positions on nearly every every aspect of life, including supporting laws that would punish sodomy by imprisonment, writing in favor of Russia's so-called 'gay propaganda' law, and advocating against efforts to protect LGBTQ youth from the harmful and discredited practice of conversion therapy," the site reports.
Legalizing Discrimination Never Looked Better
While Obergefell still stings the Christian Right, it not only takes pleasure in a Trump Administration helping to overthrow it, the CR is still bolstered by the fact that although same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states, 31 states still have laws discriminating against the LGBTQ community.
A new study entitled "Beyond I Do" has taken a serious look at those 31 states and you can view an interactive map HERE. It's telling as to which state have actually rolled back gay rights in one form or another since Trump took office. Look at Louisiana in particular - it has some of the most rigorous discriminating laws in the country. Not surprising since it is the home state of Family Research Council's infamous Tony "I-didn't-know-it-was-David Duke's-Mailing-List" Perkins. Listed as a hate group, the FRC's track record against gays is extreme and people like Perkins are lobbying to keep Reparative Therapy (mostly Pray Away the Gay) on the books as legal, despite that fact that most psychologists consider this "therapy" extremely harmful.
For Love Of Russia
Alleged Russian Spy Was Working To Infiltrate Religious Right As Swell As Gun Groups
Like Trump, the Christian Right LOVES Vladimir Putin. When Maria Butina, the Russian spy who curried favor with the NRA (and peddled sex), she also sought out some Christian Right leaders:
Putin's evangelical fan club] includes some pretty big names, like conservative Evangelical leader Franklin Graham, National Organization for Marriage leader Brian Brown, and American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer. In almost every case it has been his distinctive combination of homophobia and Islamophobia that has made Putin one of the Christian right's favorite international figures.
Owned by BothSo Trump is owned by both Russia and the Christian Right - after all, both helped him into the Presidency, and now he's acquiescing to their wishes and allowing them to boldly state their agendas.
It's worth considering that homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals might be safer returning to the closet. Flaunting gross immorality and defiant wickedness that is hideous, odious and wretched to an overwhelming majority of people is a foolish and dangerous course of action.
Scary.