#hotze — Public Fediverse posts

At Texas GOP convention, Republicans call for spiritual warfare

At the three-day convention, delegates moved the needle further to the right, preaching #Christian #nationalism and approving rules that would give them
💥unprecedented control of elections.💥

From his booth in the exhibit hall of the Texas GOP’s 2024 convention,
#Steve #Hotze saw an army of God assembled before him.
For four decades, Hotze,
♦️an indicted election fraud conspiracy theorist, ♦️has helmed hardline anti-abortion movements and virulently homophobic campaigns against LGTBQ+ rights,
comparing gay people to Nazis and helping popularize the “groomer” slur that paints them as pedophiles.

Once on the fringes, Hotze said Saturday that he was pleased by the party's growing embrace of his calls for #spiritual #warfare with “demonic, Satanic forces” on the left.

“People that aren’t in Christ have wicked, evil hearts,” he said. “We are in a battle, and you have to take a side.”

Those beliefs were common at the party’s three-day biennial convention last week,
at which delegates adopted a series of new policies that would give the party
unprecedented control over the electoral process and
further infuse Christianity into public life
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/28/texas-gop-convention-elections-religion-delegates-platform/