#moral-majority — Public Fediverse posts
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While this is all going on, they're waging war on pornographers, abortion, gay rights, and anything else they can marginalize, despite their personal behavior. #control #script #moralmajority #conservative #republican #liberty #writer
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We shared a rainbow with Jesse Jackson, who shook our hands when no one else would
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/opinion/jesse-jackson-lgbtq-shared-rainbow
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While this is all going on, they're waging war on pornographers, abortion, gay rights, and anything else they can marginalize, despite their personal behavior. #control #script #moralmajority #conservative #republican #liberty #writer
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While this is all going on, they're waging war on pornographers, abortion, gay rights, and anything else they can marginalize, despite their personal behavior. #control #script #moralmajority #conservative #republican #liberty #writer
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From 2018: THEOCRATIC MERCENARY ERIK PRINCE AND THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT.
"President Donald Trumps election allowed the Christian right to achieve a new level of domination in the US government. Since the 1960s, the #ChristianRight has become the loudest voice in the Republican Party, moving their message from the revival tents and into the political arena. Continuing this tradition, Erik Dean Prince, founder of the private security services firm RBlackwater, embodies the values of a heavily financed movement in American politics, combining elements of corporate greed, pro-war fanaticism, and religious fundamentalism. Prince has been eyeing a run for political office, which would enable him to help legislate his proposals and build momentum for his fellow travelers to achieve the same in the 2018 and 2020 elections.
A Son is Born
"Erik Dean Prince was born in Holland, Michigan, on June 6, 1969, the youngest child and only son of Edgar and Elsa Prince, who also had daughters Betsy, Emilie, and Eileen. As documented by author Suzanne Simons in her 2009 book Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War, Prince grew up in a religious household and attended Christian schools; the Princes were members of the Reformed Church in America, a conservative Christian sect that follows the philosophical template of theologian John Calvin.
"Edgar Prince worked as a die caster and then chief engineer for the die cast machine manufacturing outfit Buss Machine Works after serving in the US Air Force. In 1965 he and two co-workers struck out on their own to establish Prince Manufacturing. By the 1970s the company expanded its operations and became financially successful, as did the Prince family. Edgar Prince died of heart failure in 1995, and the company was sold to Johnson Controls for over $1 billion.
"Surrounded by those who share their belief in Christian-based politics, the Prince family has used its fortune to help build the conservative Christian movement. Focus on the Family founder #JamesDobson and Richard Nixon's disgraced former special counsel Charles Colson (who became a born-again Christian after serving seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal) were family friends. Edgar and Elsa Prince were major contributors to the Family Research Council and founded the nonprofit Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation in 1979, substantial funds from which have gone toward the effort to abolish the legal wall separating church and state. lhe Prince family also has deep ties to the Council for National Policy (#CNP) which, according to its vision statement, supports 'a united conservative movement to assure, by 2020, policy leadership and governance that restores religious and economic freedom, a strong national defense, and Judeo-Christian values under the Constitution.'
"From Reverend Billy Graham's "spiritual counsel" to twelve US presidents, to Reverend #JerryFalwell's #MoralMajority movement of the 1970s and '80s, to Marion Gordon #PatRobertson's #ChristianCoalition (now the Christian Coalition of America), the movement to push a fundamentalist 'Judeo-Christian' agenda into the public sphere has been an ongoing crusade. Keeping with family tradition, #ErikPrince's sister Betsy married fellow Christian right figure Dick DeVos, whose father is the founder of Amway and the past president of the CNP from 1990-1993. #BetsyDeVos served as the chair of the Michigan Republican Party and now serves as US Secretary of Education under Donald Trump. The DeVos dynasty, labelled a 'family of extremists' by the Center for American Progress, is undoubtedly having an influence on the Trump White House.
"As many readers of this publication [#TheHumanist] likely know, the Christian right calls for: mandatory prayer in school, the abolition of #ReproductiveRights and bans on #SameSex marriage, persecution of #minority groups, and funding of #pseudoscientific studies (such as those that deny #ClimateChange and promote intelligent design). Recently, Secretary DeVos instructed her office to remove guidelines protecting the #CivilRights of #transgender students. This is only one of many ways that she and her #Trumpian cohorts are ignoring the will of the majority in favor of the #theocratic #tyranny of the few. By contrast, DeVos's brother Erik, characterized by critics as a 'mercenary' and '#WarProfiteer,' made his mark on US policy through his controversial outfit Blackwater. "
Read more:
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/THEOCRATIC+MERCENARY+ERIK+PRINCE+AND+THE+CHRISTIAN+RIGHT.-a0545669941#USPol #TrumpSucks
#Authoritarianism #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #ErikPrinceColonialism #ChristoFascism #Fascism -
While this is all going on, they're waging war on pornographers, abortion, gay rights, and anything else they can marginalize, despite their personal behavior. #control #script #moralmajority #conservative #republican #liberty #writer
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@Priyajsridhar
When was the first time I learned about book bans and censorship?I was in college, in the early 1980s, when the Moral Majority became a thing. They were big on telling other people what they could do and not do.
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To My Friends #friends #family #charliekirk #gender #lgbtq #transgender #children #kids #wife #neurodivergent #autism #conservatiffve #rightwing #bigot #fascist #christian #moral #moralmajority #hope #love #faith #god #humanity #violence #peace #civilwar #choices #autonomy #mentalhealth #health #usa
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I just learned that SCOTUS may take up the question of marriage equality for non-heterosexual couples. So now our families are at risk of losing our personhood AGAIN because those who literally hate us want us to be invisible in our closets.
Our rights don’t diminish the rights of others, only their feelings of superiority of having something that is denied to others. No one should have the power to rescind this right.
#SCOTUS #LGBTQ #MarriageEquality #USPol #MoralMajority #privilege
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What do #VanceBoelter and #ErikPrince have in common? Quite a bit! But Prince prefers to farm out #Assassinations to his minions!
#Theocratic #Mercenary Erik Prince and the #ChristianRight
by Mike Kuhlenbeck • 19 June 2018
"Erik Dean Prince was born in Holland, Michigan, on June 6, 1969, the youngest child and only son of Edgar and Elsa Prince, who also had daughters Betsy, Emilie, and Eileen. As documented by author Suzanne Simons in her 2009 book Master of War: #Blackwater USA’s Erik Prince and the Business of War, Prince grew up in a religious household and attended Christian schools; the Princes were members of the Reformed Church in America, a conservative Christian sect that follows the philosophical template of theologian John Calvin.
"Edgar Prince worked as a die caster and then chief engineer for the die cast machine manufacturing outfit Buss Machine Works after serving in the US Air Force. In 1965 he and two co-workers struck out on their own to establish Prince Manufacturing. By the 1970s the company expanded its operations and became financially successful, as did the Prince family. Edgar Prince died of heart failure in 1995, and the company was sold to Johnson Controls for over $1 billion.
"Surrounded by those who share their belief in Christian-based politics, the Prince family has used its fortune to help build the #ConservativeChristian movement. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Richard Nixon’s disgraced former special counsel Charles Colson (who became a born-again Christian after serving seven months in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal) were family friends. Edgar and Elsa Prince were major contributors to the Family Research Council and founded the nonprofit Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation in 1979, substantial funds from which have gone toward the effort to abolish the legal wall separating church and state. The Prince family also has deep ties to the Council for National Policy (#CNP) which, according to its vision statement, supports “a united conservative movement to assure, by 2020, policy leadership and governance that restores religious and economic freedom, a strong national defense, and #JudeoChristian values under the Constitution.”
"From Reverend #BillyGraham’s “spiritual counsel” to twelve US presidents, to Reverend #JerryFalwell’s #MoralMajority movement of the 1970s and ’80s, to Marion Gordon #PatRobertson’s #ChristianCoalition (now the #ChristianCoalitionOfAmerica), the movement to push a #fundamentalist “Judeo-Christian” agenda into the public sphere has been an ongoing crusade. Keeping with family tradition, Erik Prince’s sister Betsy married fellow Christian right figure Dick DeVos, whose father is the founder of Amway and the past president of the CNP from 1990-1993. Betsy DeVos served as the chair of the Michigan Republican Party and now serves as US Secretary of Education under Donald Trump. The DeVos dynasty, labelled a “family of extremists” by the Center for American Progress, is undoubtedly having an influence on the Trump White House."
#ChristoFascists #ChristoFascism #Mercenaries #PrivateSecurity #MAGA #MAGADeathCult #RightWing #ViolentExtremists
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seems we reached the inflection point i’ve been waiting for decades: that Americans finally understand what "AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC" means.
our decades of calling #GOP #Republicans #neoliberals #evangelicals #MoralMajority #techbros #FederalistSociety and their ilk what they really are ―the many faces of American #fascism ― has paid off.
Indivisible used #nokings as a callback to 1776, but Americans know the enemy is very much American, unlike Germans in 1929.
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CW: USpol
My favorite thing related to the #TrumpTrial has been watching the Christian right bend over backwards to defend and justify the lord and savior Anusmouth for paying off a porn actress to keep quiet about the adulterous affair he had with her while his wife had just given birth, then bearing false witness in an effort to hide the hush-money payment.
You call yourselves the "Moral Majority" but you're defending this? Still?
What moral credibility could you possibly claim to have at this point, religious right? I'll tell you: none.
By worshipping the ground this dimwitted criminal walks on, you've done more to ensure the demise of Christianity than any group of atheists, Satanists, or Islamists could have done. Everyone can see what hypocrites you are.
#religiousRight #christianNationalism #moralMajority #christianity #adultery #falseWitness #idolWorship
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CW: US Politics
@rbreich (chuckles) it’s only pro-life until birth, and so long as it affords denying a woman the ability to make choices for herself.
Once the child is born its life is of no interest of theirs and the state, nor the moral majority, has no interest in how it develops or contributes to society. Though they are sometimes used as pawns in games of leverage to define how other people should live their lives.
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"The money raised by dubious methods was evidence of God’s blessing on the project, thereby sanctioning ever-more-dubious methods to raise ever more money."
#TimAlberta #evangelicals #MoralMajority #ReligiousRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #hucksters
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"This practice of preying on unwitting believers [by spinning narratives of impending catastrophe brought on by imagined anti-Christian forces] was central to the business model of the Moral Majority and its successor groups. ….
Little by little, [Cal] Thomas told me, the limits were pushed. The successes of the Moral Majority became self-justifying:"
#TimAlberta #evangelicals #MoralMajority #ReligiousRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #hucksters
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As Cal Thomas, a leading figure in the Moral Majority's rise, told Tim Albert, he'd go to fundraising meetings for these groups which would begin in prayer and end in exploitation. And then the religious hucksters would go to a bar and have a drink and laugh at the gullibility of their marks.
Alberta writes,
TimAlberta #evangelicals #MoralMajority #ReligiousRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #hucksters
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In his new book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Tim Alberta, talks about the exploitative business model of the Moral Majority and its offshoots, which gin up fear and rage among people convinced the US is going to the dogs, and which profit from that fear and rage as dollars pour in.
#TimAlberta #evangelicals #MoralMajority #ReligiousRight #WhiteChristianNationalism #hucksters
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The #religiousright, the #moralmajority, #evangelicals, and white #Christiannationalists have, throughout the #history of the #UnitedStates, used #religion to further #personalgreed, absolve themselves of guilt for #heinouscrimes, and force their #morals and world view on an entire population. Let's break down all the ways the #Religious #Right has ruined everything, and how white #Christian #nationalism poses an existential threat to our #democracy.
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@ScottCommandos
I’ve been astonished by #DeSantis’ willingness to go to battle against the Magic Kingdom. I have to remind myself that #Disney has been in the crosshairs of the #ReligiousRight for decades and so this seems to be the intersection of the #MoralMajority and #Trumpism -
#farrightloonies #votersuppression #US
#election #voting
#PaulWeyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (#GooGoo)Paul Weyrich, "father" of the #rightwing movement and co-founder of the #HeritageFoundation, #MoralMajority and various other groups tells his flock that he ...
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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦 @[email protected] ·Getting a billion+ people to wash their hands more is going to have some unexpected consequence. #moralmajority #PMRC #biden
#spanishinquisition
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The #MoralMajority is neither and the fact they now claim to represent the "left" makes them all the more Orwellian. George and #BillHicks must be turning in their graves.