Conservative Christians Lose It and Threaten President Obama, the GOP, and the Supreme Court

[Tx4obama]

Conservative Christians Lose It and Threaten President Obama, the GOP, and the Supreme Court

Militarism is the belief that a group should maintain strong military capabilities and be prepared to use them aggressively to promote their interests, and it may imply the justification of conflict to administer a group’s policy on its enemies. Over the course of the past few years, conservatives have threatened various levels of conflict to impose their particular agenda on the government and American people whether it was opposition to healthcare reform when teabaggers attended protests claiming “we came unarmed this time,” or threats of race, civil, or revolutionary war over gun safety laws and the election of an African American president. Whatever various conservative groups’ causes, their reason for threatening conflict is always their opposition to the government’s right to enact laws within the tenets of the U.S. Constitution. During the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Prop 8 that banned same-sex marriage, conservative Christians became the latest group to use marshal language to express their outrage at the prospect the Constitution forbids them from imposing their religious morality on the entire nation.

A little reported exchange during arguments in favor of perpetuating inequality in America was Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s reading a line from the House Report justifying DOMA’s passage in 1996 that defined the law’s entire legal underpinning. It said, “Congress decided to reflect and honor a moral judgment and to express moral disapproval of homosexuality.” That one line is all the reason the High Court needs to strike down the law on two counts; it is rank, government-sanctioned discrimination, and it is straight out of the Christian bible making it a direct violation of the 1st Amendment’s prohibition on establishment of a state religion. Conservative Christians, meanwhile, fearing the prospect the Court may strike down the law, immediately took up a militaristic posture leading one influential conservative Iowa talk radio host to say, “It’s going to raise the issue to Orange Threat Level, it’ll be DEFCON 6,” and his warning was repeated across the country.

In Texas, about 250 opponents of same-sex marriage assembled at the Capitol to hear the state’s Republican leadership promise that Texas will remain a bastion of “freedom, family and faith,” and that “the hope of America is Texas” according to state Sen. Ken Paxton. The state’s lieutenant governor, David Dewhurst, kept up the battle-field rhetoric and inflamed rally-goers claiming that conservative values were under steady assault from President Barack Obama and his administration, and that “Over our dead bodies are we going to let this state turn blue.” Another Texas Republican, state Senator Donna Campbell said “Our core values are being attacked on a daily basis … by government fiat in our courts and in our schools. They want to redefine the Constitution and it’s just not going to stand with me” and promised that Christian values would be defended here “because there is no other Texas to move to.” Steve Deace, who warned the threat level was elevating to DEFCON6 said “these people have invested decades in this fight and they are not going to throw up their hands, they’re going to double down, it’s going to be even nastier.”

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/ive-christians-lose-threaten-president-obama-gop-supreme-court.html

[onehandle]

1. Violence is coming.

Extremists have been armed to the teeth by NRA lobbyists.

Expect the worst.

[haikugal]

2. I hope they don't expect

blue states to help them rebuild when it's all over....

[shenmue]

3. I wonder...

If they'll wind up needing the National Guard.

[davidthegnome]

4. Sabre rattling

These people do not scare me. If it ever comes to any sort of armed conflict, I expect that our armed forces would put it down very quickly - very hard. They can't be so stupid that they aren't aware of that.

[Aristus]

5. Facepalm...

It's 'martial' language, not 'marshall' language...

[Tx4obama]

7. Good catch. But ...

the words 'marshal' with one 'L' can be used as a transitive verb.

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1: to place in proper rank or position <marshaling the troops>
2: to bring together and order in an appropriate or effective way <marshal arguments>
3: to lead ceremoniously or solicitously : usher <marshaling her little group of children down the street>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marshal

I don't have a clue about what is correct or incorrect in the case of the OP.

[Aristus]

8. Context.

'Militarism' is the first word in the article. So 'martial' would seem to be the correct term here.

[Tx4obama]

9. Well then it looks like the author must have made a boo-boo :) n/t

[indepat]

6. Conservative Christians can take their fucked-up version of religious morality seemingly

comprised mostly of greed, disingenuousness, and exclusion, and stick it up the oh-so-holy asshole of each person of their oh-so-holy ilk.

[Isoldeblue]

10. Here, here!!

Ya took the words right outa my mouth.....

[indepat]

15. I take umbrage at those who wear "Christianity" on their sleeve all the while embracing greed,

avarice, exclusion, and attempting to thrust their version of a very un-Christian-like religious morality on the rest of us through the political process.

[John2]

11. Is there any other country

they can move to and practice their religious Intolerance. The only countries I know of are Islamic countries that have religion as their Constitution. I don't think the American Constitution was written based on Christianity. It had more to do with human rights than religion.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. If the hope of America is Texas...

we are in a lot of trouble.

[Tx4obama]

13. Every state has its own share of nuts.

Millions of Texans voted for Obama in 2008 and in 2012.

There is always the 'hope' that Texas will turn blue soon

[awoke_in_2003]

14. True, and I live in Texas and voted for Obama...

but when I look around me (in DFW) I am dismayed by the amount of dumb fucks that surround me.

[Mopar151]

16. Teh Stoopid is all around us

I'm in NH, and most of the difference is the dumbfuck/decent people ratio. That, and we have enough decent, centrist Republicans who are appaled by the antics of the Teahadist minority to keep the fools (somewhat) in check.