Erstwhile Republican candidate and Renew America honorary chairman Alan Keyes has joined the current Republican insanity parade. His contribution? An online column muttering about "signs" that the U.S. government is "preparing our military forces to do violence against Christian denominations that refuse to abandon God's Word on matters like homosexuality", and suggesting that Christians need to prepare themselves to do violence themselves.
In other words, an open embrace of far-right militia movement talk:
Ironically, in these offensively evil times, self-professed Christians who feel outrage at the thought of associating Christ with violence may be playing into the hands of Christ's adversary. After all, incomprehensibly massive, government- perpetrated slaughters occurred with striking regularity during the twentieth century. Today, in various parts of the world, gruesome violence is being done to Christians with frequency. Events in Africa and the Middle East have Christians and Jews being systematically targeted for violence by groups that have seized control of governments, or are poised to do so.
Moreover, it's not at all unreasonable to see, in certain recurring reports, signs that the U.S. government is preparing our military forces to do violence against Christian denominations that refuse to abandon God's Word on matters like homosexuality. Just the other day, I read that "soldiers in the U.S. military have been told in a training briefing that evangelical Christians are the No. 1 extremist threat to America....Catholicism and ultra-orthodox Judaism are also on the list of religious extremist organizations." [...]
Righteous action thus requires, in the first instance, people who are willing, as Christ was, to give their lives in order to release the power of God's Word against the perpetrator of evil. But people of goodwill who witness it are authorized to take action against the perpetrator, on account of their respect for God. But in order to do, in this respect, what the Word of God authorizes them to do, they must be equipped for action, in spiritual and material terms. They must be prepared to execute God's law.
If we find those sentences quoted appreciatively in the next domestic terrorist's daily journal, I would not be one bit surprised.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2011—Yoo: President can order child's testicles crushed, not contractor transparency:
Apparently, the unitary executive power begins on the other side of our borders. From among John Yoo's greatest hits:
Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty...
Cassel: Also no law by Congress -- that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo...
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.
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