Donald Trump And Neil Gorsuch Have The Religious Right Thinking BigReally Big

[turbinetree]

Reprinted with permission from Alternet.

The entire Trump presidency has been pretty much a nonstop horror show for progressive Americans, but the month of June made it clear that if you are worried about President Trump and the Republican Congress rolling back advances made during the Obama administration, you aren’t worried nearly enough. Right-wing strategists seeking to undo what they see as federal overreach are looking back as far as the New Deal, and some even further, to the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th Century. With Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court and hundreds of Gorsuch-like judicial nominations in the pipeline, they’re making big plans.

Earlier in the month, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference brought Religious Right activists to Washington, D.C. The atmosphere was triumphalist, almost giddy, in sharp contrast to previous years’ complaints about Barack Obama and dire warnings about a potential Hillary Clinton presidency. Religious Right leaders had hitched the movement’s wagon to the Trump train, and they had already begun reaping the rewards.

Candidate Trump had overcome conservative Christians’ qualms about his character with a set of too-good-to-resist promises. He said he’d give them the Supreme Court of their dreams and he pledged to make them more politically powerful by doing away with restrictions on churches’ political activities. He won their trust by making one of their own, Mike Pence, his running mate. Religious Right leaders pulled out all the stops to help Trump rack up a massive margin of victory among white evangelicals.


http://www.nationalmemo.com/donald-trump-neil-gorsuch-religious-right-thinking-big-really-big/

[Girard442]

1. Shux, bribe them with hookers and cocaine too.

Not like they're too morally upright to partake.

[ck4829]

2. The Religious Right are vampires, sucking everything justice-related, spiritual, and mystical

from religion.

And they turned it, and continue to turn it, into a cold machine of power, profits, and preaching for the status quo.

It's turning people off of religion, but we need to wake up no matter our belief or lack of belief, and see they are the ones corrupting it to their end, not to the benefit of anyone or anything else. They will be the victors if this is normalized, not anyone else in any way.

[Cary]

3. Yet another reason to stop our circular firing squads.

Vote Democratic!

[Comatose Sphagetti]

4. Read the article in its entirety. Scariest fucking thing I've ever read.

So dead on. I don't see how to combat this. Installing right-wing judges, the shunning of free thought... these religious types have total control and have an unyielding patience for the long game. And they will do any underhanded, nasty, disgusting, politically slimy thing they can to keep winning. Right now we are in a political game of chess and the religious right is like a grandmaster at the board. They are winning and free-thinkers/progressives are losing... Big league.

I am surrounded by right-wing Christians who believe trump's election was "God's will." You won't change them. They would ultimately kill me, you and anyone who goes against Jesus and God's plan for 'Murca. So disheartening.

[turbinetree]

5. And just think in good old kentucky the country has this and the citizens are being blamed

for this.......................

Creationist blames dreadful attendance at Ark theme park on tax-starved city not supplying ‘tourist services’


The creationist behind Kentucky’s failing “Ark Encounter’ theme park is at it again.

Ken Ham, the president and CEO of “Christian apologist ministry” Answers in Genesis, penned an op-ed that once again deflects the blame for the failure of his Noah’s Ark replica theme park. This time, Ham argued that the culprit is Williamstown which footed the $92 million bill for the park that now graces their city for not providing enough infrastructure to accommodate visitors to their new “attraction.”

“Williamstown, where the Ark is located, doesn’t have the tourist-related services that Dry Ridge [a neighboring tourist trap] has, so it needs more businesses like hotels and restaurants if it hopes to experience the growth that Dry Ridge is now enjoying,” Ham wrote.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/creationist-blames-dreadful-attendance-at-ark-theme-park-on-tax-starved-city-not-supplying-tourist-services/


Forget about getting health care services that the fucking governor of state wants and his legislature just tore to shreds, its about fucking people who think the world was created in 6,000 years and not getting enough "tourist services"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Now that it has been made aware of this tremendous business opportunity, the *****

Organization will rush to license its name for use on a resort hotel located adjacent to Noah's Ark Lite.

Edited to change "Corporation" to "Organization."