Category: Religion / Religious / Theocracy
Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event
The goal is to make the state Christian controlled enforcing church doctrine with laws, then move that same thing to the federal level. Force the entire country and everyone in it to be their brand of Christianity. “Patriot Academy,” a far-right group that offers “biblical citizenship” training programs that encourage the Christian nationalist belief that government should be run according to Christian values. They forget how this works in the Islamic countries that are theocracy. There can no divergence from rules written by warlords in the deep past. It stops all progress of the modern age. Science must conform to what was known then, same with medical advances. It retards, slows, regresses society while the rest of the world moves forward. In the US due to religion, stem cell research was made mostly illegal. The rest of the advanced world kept finding ways to solve medical issues with stem cell treatments. Those treatments wealthy US legislators that past the laws against that research use when they need that treatment. Hugs. Scottie
Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event
The Salt Lake Tribune reports:
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, who has made increasing trust in government a focus of his tenure as a legislative leader, is giving conflicting reasons for keeping his calendar of speaking engagements from the public after speaking at a Christian nationalist event last month.
In January, Schultz was a featured speaker at an event sponsored by “Patriot Academy,” a far-right group that offers “biblical citizenship” training programs that encourage the Christian nationalist belief that government should be run according to Christian values.
Rick Green, who headlined the event, is a close ally of pseudo-historian David Barton, who claims the authors of the U.S. Constitution did not intend for the separation of church and state and wanted to create an explicitly Christian country.
Read the full article.
Does this matter for a party which has fully embraced White Supremacy?
I really hate how these people have commandeered the word “patriot” and drained it of any real meaning.
And “Christian”. And “freedom”. And “liberty”.
I like JCF’s term “Christianist” for these people who claim to be Christian but don’t recognize the Sermon on the Mount. They refuse to read that squishy “red letter” stuff (those who don’t have any familiarity with the Bible, the words uttered by Jesus are often highlighted in red, at least in older Bibles).
And family and parental rights and states rights
Nowadays, *patriot* means TERRORIST .
A devout Mormon should be very wary of christian nationalists.
You’re right Nic, Mormons are only considered “christians” since Romney ran against President Obama. The mormons don’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as the savior, blah, blah, blah, just yet another “prophet” of god. Christianists can turn on them as quickly as they adopted mormons.
They like moving goalposts to get their way.
C
It doesn’t seem to hurt the devout Mormon Mike Lee.
I can’t think of a more christian nationalist than when he compared Trump to BoM hero Moroni. But I’m glad to add: most of my Mormon neighbors/friends laughed out loud when they heard about this comparison. And yet, Mr.Lee was reelected. (sigh)
Close enough,
I remember listening to evangelicals claiming Hitler was an atheist
Oops
Even were that somehow true, all Nazis were required to be christian.
This image had gotten me a 3-day Facebook ban, last time I posted it, no allowance for educational use.
Tennessee Approves Bill Allowing Anybody To Refuse Officiating At Same-Sex Weddings Because Of Jesus
Another attempt to exempt “Christians” or anyone who wants to discriminate against the gays from laws requiring equal treat of everyone. It says that if you don’t like the gays or the trans, you can just not do your job, regardless of the fact that is what your job is. Think about how horrible these laws are, think of what they are trying to accomplish. They send the message that Christians are the most privileged highest level of person in society, automatically. It also sends the messaged that the LGBTQIA, especially the gays and trans, are the lowest of the low in society. The goal, to drive the society / public back to the 1950s, erasing all the equality and advancements in tolerance / acceptance. The goal is removing the gays / trans from public view and this is done by denying them equal treatment under the law. If you think these laws sound OK try rewording them. It is OK not to serve or do your job is you believe it is wrong for black people to be married, or mixed races marriage. You can refuse to do your job and not take pictures of a wedding because it has a Jewish person and a Catholic. You can refuse to cater a weeding if the people getting married were once married before and now are divorced. If you think the examples are wrong then it is wrong to do this to gay or trans people. If you think the examples are correct then you are saying everyone gets to know and judge everyone else and screw the people you dislike or hate. This is simply hate made in to law driven by religion. Laws in a secular country are by definition not religious edicts, they are civil. If you want religion to rule you need to move to a theocracy. Notice a theocracy is not a democracy. Hugs. Scottie
The Tennessean reports:
Hours after a bill allowing marriage officiants to decline to solemnize weddings if they have moral objections received final passage from lawmakers, a vibrant crowd rallied on Capitol Hill advocating against a slate of bills aimed at placing new restrictions on Tennessee’s LGBTQ community.
Senate Bill 596, which would allow officiants to decline to perform weddings, passed the Tennessee Senate without debate along party lines on Monday evening. The bill passed the House last year, and will head to Gov. Bill Lee for his signature.
Sen. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, who sponsored the bill, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee this month that the goal of his bill is to provide clarity on whether officiants are required to perform marriages.
Truthout reports:
The bill wouldn’t just apply to wedding officiants and religious leaders — it also amends Tennessee Code Section 36-3-301, which applies to public government officials, including county clerks who handle marriage licenses. The legislation would allow those individuals, too, to refuse to “solemnize” a marriage based on their own religious convictions.
It’s unclear whether Republican Gov. Bill Lee will sign the bill into law. Lee has signed a slew of anti-LGBTQ bills since becoming governor, including one allowing state-funded foster care agencies to legally deny LGBTQ people the ability to serve as foster parents. Since 2015, more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ bills have become law in Tennessee.
Pody has appeared here many times for his attacks on same-sex marriage. In 2016, he sought to “nullify” the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.
In 2017, he sponsored a bill calling for Tennessee to defy Obergefell entirely, and literally fled protesters at his press conference.
In 2019, he filed the “Tennessee Natural Marriage Bill” that would void same-sex marriages, something he says God told him to do.
In 2020, he filed a fourth attempt to make the bible the official book of Tennessee. In 2021, he filed a bill that would allow fathers to block abortions by their partners.
Then can’t all business owners then refuse service to anyone with different beliefs than themselves?
The bill wouldn’t just apply to wedding officiants and religious leaders — it also amends Tennessee Code Section 36-3-301, which applies to public government officials, including county clerks who handle marriage licenses.
Cool, I hope these do refuse to handle homo marriage licenses, they can get sued to high hell and the gays will get a nice little payout.
Sounds good to me, keep it up religious bigots, its taxpayer money you’re handing right to the gays.
Yeah. Drag them to federal court. Fuck Tennessee.
Its the only way to win against them.
How do you intend to collect this nice little payout?
There’s only one way to get a Republican to honor the Constitution. A lawsuit ain’t it.
Oh, we’ve already got Kim Davis, this will just go the same way.
These states, repeatedly, pass unConstitutional laws and they lose in court. I guess its time for TN to give it a try.
They’ll lose at every court this is tried in, the fed law is clear on this. Its why this jackasses other legislation has failed.
Beer guy and the Handmaid say hold my beer.
Another good Christian, shitty human
In his circles, there’s little difference.
Let’s talk about Mr. Rogers, commercials, and themes….
Israel Commits Mass Atrocity During Super Bowl
Some more Majority Report clips
Anti-Trans NYT Article Gets It’s Facts Horrendously Wrong
Erin Reed then joins, diving right into the busy 2024 in state-level anti-trans legislation in the US, first parsing through the media’s insistence on emphasizing bigoted and misinformed perspectives – as seen in the New York Times’s recent piece by Pamela Paul – and how the arguments seen in those texts are perfectly reflected in the statehouse hearings in red states.
Let’s talk about Egypt withdrawing from a peace treaty with Israel….
Let’s talk about Utah and good guys….
I posted about this but missed the part of a teen girl needed police protection, had to go into hiding because some woman thought she was not pretty and small enough to be a girl. Think of what that means. Beau says it better than I can. I really hope the point gets through. Hugs. Scottie
Adults bullying kids on social media because they don’t think a girl is pretty enough? Stay classy, America! 
Anti-Trans Hysteria Takes Over Alberta
I like how he shows the lies and misinformation tweets that the right uses as an excuse to pass these laws. He shows how she mentions trans women don’t belong on women’s teams because a clearly bigger and stronger trans woman picks up an opposing player and body slams her. But here is the thing. There was no trans woman. The person in question was born female. Not male, born female. Assigned female at birth. Hey some people are bigger than others. That is because sexual mix in the body shows that it is rare to be completely male / completely female. Sex is a spectrum no matter what your reproductive organs are. He also points out that only 23 people under the age of 18 had breast surgery and it is not known if they were because of medical issues or pain. Many girls have breast augmentation or reduction before 18. Plus a lot of girls have cancer of the breast or other such issue requiring removal. And remember in Canada like in the US a minor requires a parent or guardian to approve of medical treatments. He also points out the newest study find 94% of trans people happier after transitioning. Also I love his calm collected delivery. Lance of the serfs points out knee surgery regrets are as 30%, yet no one is protesting outside those doctors offices. Hugs. Scottie
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