Saturday, December 16, 2023

Republicans hate America 16: The Satanic Panic

Batzel is the executive director of
The American Majority
As Republicans continue to use Magic Words as defense for their intolerance and oppression of the American people they’ve come to utter the trite phrase ‘It’s freedom OF religion not FROM’…. Ho ho ho oh so clever!
 But, the sad reality is Republicans don't believe in freedom of religion either.   Republicans are getting really comfortable with imposing their beliefs on others.  

In Wisconsin, a "Satanic Temple Christmas tree" had conservatives and current and former Wisconsin Republican Congressmen outraged.

"I think it's impossible to overstate how offensive this is to Christians," US Representative Mike Gallagher who spent time in Iraq as a Marine Corps Officer and apparently thinks his feelings are greater than the United States Constitution.

In Iowa, The Church of Satan (a tongue-in-cheek group if every there was one) erected a display in the State Capitol in Des Moines.  This was done in accordance with law.  But, conservatives don't believe in the Rule of Law but, the Rule of Man.  Ron DeShrimpus attacked the display and multiple other elected Republicans expressed their anger in their epistemically closed rightwing media which prompted former Naval Aviator and failed Republican candidate for elected office Michael Cassidy, 35, of Lauderdale, Mississippi, to completely destroy the religious display. Cassidy was charged with fourth-degree criminal mischief, on Friday.

It should be noted that from Ron DeSantis down to criminal Michael Cassidy to any of these hundreds of Republican officials they have all sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution.  But, much like their religious beliefs that oath is a hollow phrase and a sham to dupe journalists and hide their true agenda. 

For a long time the goal of Fascist Fundamentalists has been to advance religious liberty arguments into the Federal Government (especially the Judiciary and Supremacist Court) where those arguments can be cleverly ensconced into Law.

In Late Antiquity, Christian Terrorists vandalized and destroyed the much of The Great Library of Alexandria and did everything they could to infiltrate and take over the Roman Empire.  We've been warned that infiltrating and radically altering the United States into a White Supremacist Evangelical Theocracy was the goal of the modern Christian Terrorists for 60 years even from The Godfather of Modern Conservatism Barry Goldwater.  Now, we have several Catholic Dominionists and lower courts and Federal Government is seeded with evangelical terrorists supporting nakedly religious edicts being substituted into law and undermining the secular foundations of the Country, especially the separation of Church & State

"The separation of church and state is a misnomer.  People misunderstand it.  Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that Jefferson wrote. It’s not in the Constitution. And what he was explaining is they did not want the government to encroach upon the church — not that they didn’t want principles of faith to have influence on our public life. It’s exactly the opposite."- Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

It's exactly the opposite that little snake Mike Johnson says... People of faith get to encroach on the Government as much as they wish.  You have the august and cherished right to believe in Christianity.  Even Catholics are accepted for now, as long as far-right Catholic Cardinals attack prominent Democratic leaders who are catholic like Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, or President Biden.

What Republicans could not possibly be making any clearer is they have no duty to respect your Religious Freedom and will blatantly violate your rights under the law because they feel ascendant.  It's hard to keep up with all the bad faith, crime, terrorism, perfidy being conducted by Republicans these days but, now that Republicans have successfully ended Roe v. Wade, their next target will be to destroy religious freedom and re-interpret the First Amendment to make sure you have the Freedom to follow their Religious Laws and Edicts.

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