"Evangelical MAGA lawyer Michael Farris (who helped lead the effort to overturn Roe v. Wade) has acknowledged in a videotaped interview from 2022 that reversing Roe was just an interim step. In fact, he and his colleagues plan to also amend the U.S. Constitution to ban abortion in all 50 states 'from conception until natural death' once they amass enough power.
NO PORN FOR OLD MEN. Hidden in plain sight on page 5 of the #Project2025 plan is a thinly veiled reference to banning porn and imprisoning those who create and/or distribute it — if #Trump is elected. Considering porn consumption crosses partisan lines with both sides indulging, it's a curious concession to the worst offenders of all — #evangelicals. And so-called #Libertarians? This should be a non-starter for a Trump vote.
Any politician who runs for office sensing a divine mandate soon confronts a bracing reality: Campaigns are built around the accumulation of money, power, and influence, currencies of a kingdom to which Christians do not belong. Dual citizenship is not a biblical option...
@freakazoid The other day I was chatting about religion and peer pressure with a Brazilian worker here and he told me he had a problem with his church:
“The pastor wants us to chant ‘I am Israel’ and I don’t agree. What do I have to do with this?”.
Have said it over and over, time after time: politics is the bane of Christianity. Politics is not a feature of heaven. The wolf in sheep's clothing today is a politician in a pastor's suit.
'"It was Trump who ripped away the rights of women in America.
It was a political deal to get rid of Roe, a political deal Trump made with the evangelical base of the Republican Party to look past his moral and character flaws in exchange for his commitment to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would overturn Roe."
"That is the pure truth. The GOP has always looked past Trump’s evil in exchange for his promise of pushing through their agenda. We see this catching up with them in courtrooms across the country."
"[Africa] is seeing a surge in repressive [anti-LGBTQ] laws. Campaigners say US evangelists are fuelling discrimination and hatred. …
'Ugandan society has always lived … with LGBTQ persons … The homophobia, the transphobia we are seeing … is from the west. It is mostly peddled by extreme American evangelicals,' argues the Ugandan activist Frank Mugisha."
"The future of proselytizing—and surveillance—has arrived. An app called Bless Every Home, which has been backed by some of the biggest names in evangelical circles, is mapping the personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and 'prayerwalking' rituals through their neighborhoods."
• At the national level, Christian nationalism is strongly linked to Republican party affiliation and holding favorable views of Trump.
• Christian nationalism is strongly linked to evangelical/born-again identity and frequent church attendance.
• Christian nationalists are more likely than other Americans to see political struggles through the apocalyptic lens of revolution and to support political violence.
• While there is little variation in support for Christian nationalist beliefs by race or ethnicity alone, Christian nationalist beliefs are refracted through racial and ethnic identity, which produces divergent political outcomes among white, Hispanic, and Black Americans.
#POTUS Joe Biden was leading #Michigan's Democratic presidential primary contest Tues, as expected, w/the #ProtestVote against him pulling about 7% of the tally.
Biden had 88% of the vote, followed by 7% #uncommitted, 2% for Minnesota US Rep Dean Phillips & 2.4% for self-help guru Marianne Williamson, with 3% of precincts reporting.
Financial fraudster Donald J. Trump has filed an appeal
but failed to post the required $450 million bond.
While appeal progresses, Trump will owe $100k in interest daily until he posts his bond,
and unless something magic occurs, in 30 days, the New York AG will begin seizing assets.
What kind of stuff was I posting on #ErosBlog twenty years ago? On a whim, I went back and paged through the February 2004 posts. They're pretty fluffy, for the most part, but I found half a dozen posts still worth mentioning. I think I'll do a little thread.
Violet Blue (@violetblue) had a #blowjob#howto book out and was getting bad reviews (WTF?) from pissed-off religionists on Amazon. Her epic #rant was memorable and worth excerpting:
"Why the hell are Christians reading my fellatio book, and even stranger, what unholy ghost possesses them to write bad reviews about it on Amazon?"