Betty C. JungDoug Wilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a Christian Theocracy. In Trump’s DC, the New Right Is Listening. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The danger of Christian Nationism - turning the U.S. democracy into a theocracy. The is really evil. and Felon47 is all for it.
Doug Wilson Has Spent Decades ...
Betty C. JungHe is, by his own description, an outspoken proponent of Christian theocracy — the idea that American society, including its government, should be governed by a conservative interpretation of Biblical law.
Betty C. JungThe scope of his empire notwithstanding, Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race.
Betty C. JungIn recent years, a growing number of Republican elites clustered around the “New Right” of the GOP have been looking to Wilson’s work as a kind of how-to manual for injecting a hardline conservative form of Protestant Christianity into public life —
Betty C. Junga project that ranges from outlawing abortion at the federal level to amending the Constitution to acknowledging the truth of the Bible. Chief among the sources of Wilson’s appeal on the right is his defense of a masculinist and explicitly patriarchal style of evangelicalism:
Betty C. JungWomen are barred from holding leadership roles at Christ Church, and women in CREC communities are expected to submit to their husbands. At times, he’s ditched the high-minded theological rhetoric and referred to various women as “small-breasted biddies,” “lumberjack dykes” and “c**ts.”
Betty C. Jung(Yes, profanity is permitted, if used in a godly way.) {Hypocrite!}
What he has in mind for America is closer to a return to the political order embodied by “the Constitution of the late 18th century and early 19th century,” with a weak central state,
Betty C. Junga small-R republican form of government and a high tolerance for displays of Christian faith in the public sphere. Wilson’s critics have cast him as the vanguard of the rising forces of “Christian nationalism” in America.
Betty C. JungHe cheered the Trump administration’s effort to “dismantle the administrative state,” and he suggested the Supreme Court should build on its recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by re-evaluating Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Betty C. JungWilson has floated some more fundamental changes to America’s political system: Amending the Constitution to include reference to the Apostles’ Creed, restricting office holding to practicing Christians
Betty C. Jungand changing voting practices to award votes by household, with the default vote-holder being the male head of the household. He admits that this reformation would represent a “huge” departure from America’s current political order, and that even some of his more modest reforms
Betty C. Jungcould only be brought about via constitutional amendment — or, if that fails, civil strife.
Note: I am posting this so you are aware that this is the Devil spewing evil behind a clerical collar. We need to separate Church and State to save the Democracy he is trying to detroy.