If there was ever any doubt about serial liar and alleged serial sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh’s stance on women’s rights, the threat from extremist anti-women’s rights evangelicals against Senate Republicans will certainly disabuse even the most strident skeptic.
As many Americans are aware, the only reason evangelicals support Trump is because he pledged to pack the federal judiciary with radical right-wing judges who will attack women’s rights with the same religious fervor that Trump attacks anyone who fails to recognize his self-deification. If there is only one thing evangelicals lust for more than America as a Puritanical theocracy, it is a federal judiciary that will enforce the evangelical belief that religious men have constitutional authority to control all aspects of a woman’s life, not just her reproductive life. It is why, in large part, the evangelical right is furious that Senate Republicans have not yet confirmed serial liar and alleged serial sexual abuser Brett Kavanaugh.
It is likely that in their twisted minds the allegations of sexual predation against Kavanaugh, coupled with his endemic lying, is proof that he is the right kind of misogynistic p[r]ick to complete their dream of an anti-women’s rights Supreme Court majority.
The delay in Kavanaugh’s confirmation incited a group of evangelical leaders to assert their movement’s significant authority over Republicans and warn them thus:
“Unless Senate Republicans move the nomination out of committee immediately and do more to defend Kavanaugh, religious conservatives may feel little motivation to vote in the midterm elections.”
Like everything that has occurred since Trump’s poorly attended inauguration, the religious right is blaming “desperate Democrats — for preventing President Trump from filling court vacancies;” a claim that is patently false. Trump and Republicans have been systematic in filling court vacancies with young, inexperienced, right-wing ideologues with a vision for America approved by the evangelical extremist outfit, the Heritage Foundation.
The evangelical leaders claim Democrats are the only thing delaying Kavanaugh’s confirmation that they believe should have occurred without the regular confirmation process – they say he is a really fine man. Moreover, the evangelical clergy’s threat about not showing up in November is a deliberately blatant lie and every Republican politician alive knows it is a particularly dirty lie. If there is only one constant about the religious right, it is that as a voting bloc they always turn out the vote for Republicans. And because Trump recently ordered the evangelical clergy to break the law and campaign from the pulpit every Sunday with impunity, the evangelical anti-women’s rights extremists will turn out to vote en masse - regardless what happens with serial liar and repeatedly accused sexual predator Kavanaugh.
All of the “renowned” evangelical leaders, all of them vehemently opposed to women’s self-determination regarding their reproductive lives, weighed in to express their monumental disappointment that Senate Republicans have failed to do what Trump did – obey the theocrats. In addition to the lie that evangelical voters will sit out the upcoming midterm elections if there is any further delay, the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed warned that without Kavanaugh on the High Court, Republicans will lose control of the Senate. Reed said:
“One of the political costs of failing to confirm Brett Kavanaugh is likely the loss of the United States Senate. If Chuck Schumer is majority leader and Dianne Feinstein is chairman of the Judiciary Committee it will be open season on any Trump nominee to the federal bench at any level of the judiciary. If Republicans were to fail to defend and confirm such an obviously and eminently qualified and decent nominee, then it will be very difficult to motivate and energize faith-based and conservative voters in November.”
Another one of Trump’s “most unwavering defenders,” wealthy evangelist Franklin Graham informed the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN):
“I hope the Senate is smarter than this, and they’re not going to let this stop the process from moving forward and confirming this man.”
The “this” Graham is referring is the normal confirmation process that unveiled allegations that “this man” is not only a serial liar, he is an alleged serial sexual predator.
The preacher who is one of Trump’s seriously demented counselors and supporters, First Baptist preacher Robert Jeffress said the holdup in Kavanaugh’s confirmation has nothing to do with the sexual predation allegations – it is about Democrats who have no regard for the truth. Jeffress said:
“I can say with absolute certainty, that the Democrats don’t care who is telling the truth. Their only interest is in delaying and derailing this confirmation. The White House is walking a tightrope. They cannot summarily dismiss these allegations and alienate G.O.P. and independent female voters in the midterms. Neither can they abandon a nominee they and their base strongly support.”
No small number of other anti-women’s rights evangelicals added their voices to insist that Republicans do what they’ve been paid to do and confirm the serial liar and “alleged” sexual predator for a lifetime position on the High Court. The so-called “Concerned Women of America” ordered its legislative action committee to issue an urgent message to its members commanding them to demand “No More Delays” from Senate Republicans. Another extremist evangelical group, the American Family Association, sent out its own order for Senate Republicans to, “Confirm Kavanaugh Now!”
The president of the anti-women’s reproductive rights outfit, the Susan B. Anthony List, is Marjorie Dannenfelser who joined Republican males and religious right malcontents saying:
“The worst thing that can ever happen to any woman, or a man,who has been a victim is to shut them down and not listen to them. A tragic piece of this is people who will use that pain for an agenda. That is so clearly what is happening now.”
At least one evangelical extremist, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, thinks that more opposition to a serial liar and alleged serial sexual predator as a Supreme Court justice is a good thing and will help Republicans. Perkins said:
“Given the confirmation theatrics, followed by this allegation, this could be seen as another partisan attack and could actually fuel conservative turnout.”
It is likely that Perkins’ prediction is a more probable outcome than the rest of the evangelicals because the clergy will portray any perceived delay or derailing as persecution against the faithful because Kavanaugh is one of them. The religious right has made it abundantly clear that they expect a federal judiciary biased against women’s reproductive rights and they know that Kavanaugh is an integral piece of their plan to control women by controlling their bodies.
It is interesting too, that the great majority of Americans do not want a High Court to touch Roe v. Wade and an equally impressive majority do not want religion brought into politics or any decision-making process. Republicans only exist as a viable political movement because they bring some bastardized version of Christianity into their policies and agendas as remuneration for a dedicated religious right voting bloc.
It is almost certain that Senate Republicans know the only threat to their midterm election success is a robust turnout of voters sick of Republicans for myriad reasons, including perpetually pandering to extremist evangelicals as vigorously as they pander to the filthy rich and their greedy corporations. Evangelicals are just terrified of a delay in their plan to legally deny women self determination regarding all aspects of their lives, something they are confident Kavanaugh’s confirmation will keep on track; particularly now that another woman alleges that Kavanaugh is the right kind of religious liberty misogynist for a burgeoning theocracy’s