Trump ushers in Christian "deep state." MAGA moves to gut U.S. Constitution
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/06/ushers-in-a-christian-deep-state-maga-moves-to-gut-the-constitution

* Trump gave control of budget to Project 2025 henchman who calls this a "post-constitutional moment"

Religious choice vs. Christian nationalism
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/12/06/religious-choice-vs-christian-nationalism

* Donald Trump rec'd <50% voter support

#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #Gilead
#theocracy #DominionTheology #ChristianNationalism
#antiLGBT #transgenocide #USConstitution

"Go scorched Earth on the satanic bureaucracy": Christian nationalists make their move

Trump gave control of the budget to a Project 2025 henchman who calls this a "post-constitutional moment"

Salon.com

Billionaire Preachers Built Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas
https://www.propublica.org/article/tim-dunn-farris-wilks-texas-christian-nationalism-dominionism-elections-voting

* Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks
* pushed TX statehouse far right. threatens separation of church/state
* relentlessly fund campaigns v. other Republicans
* Christian nationalism
* Dunn linked to think tanks jockeying to influence Trump2 administration

#Trump2 #fascism
#ChristianRight #theocracy #ChristianNationalism #DominionTheology
#Christofascism #transgenocide #antiLGBT
#billionaires #TimDunn #FarrisWilks

A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.

Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.

ProPublica

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* Farris Wilks, Dan Wilks “Koch brothers of Christian Right”
* fund conservative groups e.g.
Focus on the Family
Heritage Foundation
* 2015 $15 million to Ted Cruz super PAC connected to David Barton

#Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #theocracy #ChristianNationalism #DominionTheology #DavidBarton
#Christofascism #transgenocide #antiLGBT #FocusOnTheFamily #FotF
#billionaires #TimDunn #FarrisWilks #DanWilks

Radical Theology That Could Make Religious Freedom a Thing of the Past
https://www.texasobserver.org/dominion-theology

* dominion theology/dominionism
* refusal to separate church/state
* believe Christians “have biblical mandate to control all earthly institutions, incl. gov't, until 2nd coming of Jesus”

#Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #theocracy #ChristianNationalism
#DominionTheology #DavidBarton #TedCruz
#Christofascism #transgenocide #antiLGBT

The Radical Theology That Could Make Religious Freedom a Thing of the Past

Dominion theology explicitly rejects the United States' venerable separation of church and state, and Texas' top politicians like it that way.

The Texas Observer

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* TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: officials must look to Scripture when making policy
* Ted Cruz too savvy to openly endorse dominionism
* his team incl. explicit dominionists
* Cruz's father espouses Seven Mountains Dominionism
* Seven Mountains Dominionist David Barton managed Ted Cruz superPAC in failed presidential bid

#Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #theocracy #ChristianNationalism
#DominionTheology #DavidBarton #TedCruz
#Christofascism #transgenocide #antiLGBT

Texas school district bans Bible: “Patently offensive” sexual content 🤨
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/texas-school-district-bans-the-bible-because-of-its-patently-offensive-sexual-content

* Bible caught up in ban on "sexual content" in school libraries 😹
* Texas House Bill 900 (2023-2024) Restricting Explicit & Adult Designated Educational Resources
* prohibits books with 1+ instance sex content

https://txla.org/advocacy/hb-900-vendor-ratings-for-school-library-materials/hb-900-implementation

#Texas #GOP #HB900 #READERact
#Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism
#ChristianRight #theocracy #antiLGBT #ParentalRights #censorship
#Christofascism #transgenocide

How Jimmy Carter Lost Evangelical Christians
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jimmy-carter-evangelical-christianity/

* Carter (D-GA) won maj. evangelical Christian voters, 1976 pres. election
* those voters later attacked
* response to secular humanism, presaging mod. culture wars:
abortion/Roe v. Wade
Christian educ.
women's rights/Phyllis Schlafly/ERA
homosexuality/Anita Bryant
white supremacy

Rick Perlstein (2020) Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113708829210825010

#JimmyCarter
#ChristianRight #Evangelicalism #antiLGBT

How Jimmy Carter Lost Evangelical Christians to the Right

The Baptist Georgia governor won a majority of evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters had changed sides—for the long haul.

The Nation
How Trump could embolden plans for more Christianity in US schools

Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state. The efforts come as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office pledging to champion the First Amendment right to pray and read the Bible in school. While the federal government is explicitly barred from directing states on what to teach, Trump can indirectly influence what’s taught in public schools and his election may embolden state-level activists. With the help of judicial appointees from Trump’s first term, courts have begun to bless the notion of more religion in the public sphere, including in schools.

AP News
Trump Will Bulldoze the Separation of Church and State

We can expect Trump to continue to exploit religion and pander to his base of white evangelicals.

Progressive.org