Posted on 05/27/2018 6:15:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
America’s Christian nationalists have a new plan for advancing their legislative goals in state capitols across the country. Its stated aim is to promote “religious freedom.” Not shy, they call it “Project Blitz.”
“Blitz” accurately describes the spirit of the enterprise, but the mission has little to do with what most Americans would call religious freedom. This is just the latest attempt by religious extremists to use the coercive powers of government to secure a privileged position in society for their version of Christianity.
The idea behind Project Blitz is to overwhelm state legislatures with bills based on centrally manufactured legislation. “It’s kind of like whack-a-mole for the other side; it’ll drive ‘em crazy that they’ll have to divide their resources out in opposing this,” David Barton, the Christian nationalist historian and one of four members of Project Blitz’s “steering team,” said in a conference call with state legislators from around the country that was later made public.
According to research provided by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, more than 70 bills before state legislatures appear to be based on Project Blitz templates or have similar objectives. Some of the bills are progressing rapidly. An Oklahoma measure, which has passed the legislature and is awaiting the governor’s signature, allows adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate on the basis of their own religious beliefs. Others, such as a Minnesota bill that would allow public schools to post “In God We Trust” signs on their walls, have provoked hostile debates in local and national media, which is in many cases the point of the exercise.
“ ‘Project Blitz’ Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business,” reads the headline of a recent piece Frederick Clarkson wrote for Religion Dispatches that highlighted the danger.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How dare those deplorable Christians exercise their natural right to worship as they please!
“If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)
An Oklahoma measure, which has passed the legislature and is awaiting the governor’s signature, allows adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate on the basis of their own religious beliefs.
“Discriminate”? I thought this was a question of “Choice”? You know, the word you like to throw around instead of killing babies?
Oh the HORROR, Katherine!! You mean, people might actually get to practice what they preach? You mean, Big Brother and Big Enemedia can’t force their views of “immorality” on the rest of us?
DAMN, that is JUST SO UNFAIR
Oh, and those EVIL “Christian ‘Nationalists’” As opposed to your wonderful Secular Jewish Communists in the offices down the hall and up the floors?
If the NYT hates it, I’m usually for it.
“In God we trust”
Sounds familiar.
And a good thing to remind our students.
"Denn wie der Blitz oben vom Himmel blitzt und leuchtet über alles, was unter dem Himmel ist, also wird des Menschen Sohn an seinem Tage sein." (For as the lightning flashes and illuminates everything under the sky, so will the Son of Man be in his day.)--Luke 24:17 (Lutheran Bible)
It is not used by the groups themselves or anybody else for that matter.
The author simply uses it so he can smear with an association with Nazis.
As opposed to the latest attempt by atheist and communist extremists to use the coercive powers of government to secure a privileged position in society for queers, transexuals, fascist thugs, illegal invaders, mudslime terrorists, criminals, perverts, and other liberals.
In the long run, nobody.
In the short term a whole lotta folks will TRY.
If the NYT hates it, I’m usually for it.
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Except Trump.
Who will be your 2020 candidate?
I can not make heads or tails of it.
Well except that what ever it is the NYT is having a hissy fit about it.
The saints (holy ones in the Old Testament) are probably aware that it is now or never before the wrath of God is unleashed.
This article is an opinion piece written by...
“By Katherine Stewart
Ms. Stewart is the author of “The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children.”
I LOVED the Good News Clubs. Ping the prayer warriors of Free Republic!
[[This is just the latest attempt by religious extremists to use the coercive powers of government to secure a privileged position in society for their version of Christianity.]]
Religious freedom is NOT a privilege- it is an inalienable right- The NYT would have us lose that right
[[What in the name of Odin’s beard is this reporter babbling about?
I can not make heads or tails of it]]
The reporter hates Christianity- it comes through loud and clear in the report- they don’t feel that Christians have a right to practice freely or have any influence whatsoever. The reported has made himself a god in his own image, and is threatened by anyone that serves any other God
sorry- meant herself, not himself
Alert, alert -- that's Luke 17:24.
Secularists say that it is fine that Christians have the right to free speech, freedom of association, and the right to vote...so long as they don’t ever win and gain power.
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