Values Voter Summit Agenda Reveals Religious Rights Hostility to Constitutional Values

[Initech]

The Values Voter Summit, the largest annual political gathering of Religious Right activists, will take place in Washington, D.C., this weekend. The schedule for the summit reveals that the anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice, anti-Muslim “values” celebrated by conference organizers are deeply at odds with core constitutional principles, including freedom of religion, freedom of the press and equality under the law.

President Donald Trump will address the gathering on Friday, capping off a week in which he has called for the federal government to yank the broadcasting licenses of network television stations whose coverage displeases him. Trump, who campaigned at last year’s Values Voter Summit, will undoubtedly be showered with adulation from Religious Right activists who are thrilled with his far-right judicial nominees, his attacks on Planned Parenthood and women’s access to reproductive health care around the world, and his efforts to reverse progress toward legal equality for LGBT people.

Groups like the Family Research Council, which hosts the Values Voter Summit, and Alliance Defending Freedom are counting on Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and like-minded judicial nominees to help dismantle church-state separation, reverse progress toward legal equality for LGBT people, and eliminate legal protection for women’s access to abortion—not to mention demolishing Great Society and New Deal programs by declaring them unconstitutional.

Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway is also scheduled to speak, along with former White House aides and Breitbartistas Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, who campaigned to help Roy Moore defeat Trump-endorsed Sen. Luther Strange in the Alabama primary. Moore will also be speaking at the summit.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/values-voter-summit-agenda-reveals-religious-rights-hostility-to-constitutional-values/

These are some scary scary scary people here.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin' with disgust

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R for visibility...

It's an all out assault on the secular Constitution.

[Initech]

5. And these fuckers are "emboldened" by the Orange Douche.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Scary and I think 2 states away from constitutional convention, i.e. end of the world

because not only will they completely destroy America but we will be in wars everywhere the next day.

Doesnt matter, trump will kill us all within a month.

I cant fucking BELIEVE we are still saying this stuff and still the GOP does nothing

I simply cant fucking believe they are that unpatriotic.

[Bettie]

4. K&R for

visibility....so we can all recall who the real opposition is.

These people are our enemies in a very real sense. They want to tear down anything that is decent and being in their own version of government based on their whacked-out religious views.

[Initech]

6. I honestly thought we had heard the last of Phil Robertson and Sarah Palin.

The sooner these freaks get raptured the better.

[Bettie]

10. LOL, I tell my husband all the time

that I really wish the whole evangelical right would get raptured because the world would be a better place to live in.

ON the other hand, I don't think they actually get what the red words in their Bibles mean. At. All.

[Permanut]

7. These people are terrorists..

And there are lots of them.

And they have money.

They have constructed an image of us libruls that fits their need for an enemy.

Gun nuts, Bible thumpers, billionaires, Russians, psychopaths, and other assorted nihilists. An unholy alliance that is truly dangerous.

K & R

[Initech]

9. Terrorists. That's exactly what they are.

Only they make their terror through laws. And occasionally bullets like what happened in Vegas. I have never been more afraid of these people than I have in my entire life than this last year. But they want us to be afraid of them.

[Johonny]

8. The American Taliban