The semi-secret evangelical society called the Council for National Policy (CNP) threw a semi-secret gathering on Saturday, while the conservative Senate—and the pointless Joe Manchin—voted to confirm white-privilege poster child Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The Intercept reports that not only were these evangelicals excited to have the incredibly mediocre, volatile, and possibly rapey Kavanaugh on the court, but they were also getting together to walk through the ways in which they might use this newly corrupted Supreme Court to create the theocracy that only good Christians can.
The agenda for the event featured a veritable who’s who of Christian conservatives, including Ginni Thomas, the spouse of Justice Clarence Thomas; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley; former Sen. Jim DeMint, the former president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank; pollster Frank Luntz; and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who is seeking a leadership role in the House after Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., retires this year.
And like most political Christian organizations, the CNP is filled with people creating straw man arguments about why a historic douchebag like Brett Kavanaugh is a good thing for America.
To CNP founding member and Texas oil fortune heir T. Cullen Davis, Kavanaugh’s vote on the Supreme Court will help protect the religious liberties that the CNP perceives to be under attack at schools. “On the particular issue of prayer of school, they’re teaching the Muslim religion in school now, but they can’t say the name Jesus,” Davis said. “It’s a tragedy. I would like to see prayer back in school.”
That’s a thing that has happened no times in the last forever years. Huffington Post contributor Eric Zuesse has pointed out that the CNP has a membership largely similar to that of the Koch Brothers’ Republican-Party-controlling consortiums, and was in fact spun off from Koch patriarch Fred Koch’s Christian fundamentalist John Birch Society. Most theocracies are one part zealotry, one part power, and all parts hypocrisy.
Davis said he was pleased so far with Trump’s leadership but that he remains unsure of Trump’s commitment to the faith. “I really don’t know his relationship to Jesus Christ, but he is not hostile to Christianity like Hillary [Clinton] and [Barack] Obama,” he added.
If anybody in that slate of politicians is a Christian, it is President Obama. If you have “moral” issues with Hillary Clinton, they couldn’t be worse than those of the billionaire philanderer, who has spent a career never being photographed near churches (until he campaigned). Of course, President Obama and former Secretary of State Clinton were both not white men, and if God’s taught us anything, it’s that white men were doing great until women showed up, and black people are the result of Noah’s alcoholism.