I attempted to summarise what follows after which determined to share it because it was written by Heather Cox Richardson as a result of nothing I might say might add to it. I supply it as an admiring promotion of her free, household, e-newsletter, ‘Letters from an American’, to which you’ll be able to subscribe right here:
The Alabama Supreme Courtroom on February 16, 2024, determined that cells awaiting implantation for in vitro fertilization are kids and that the unintended destruction of such an embryo falls underneath the state’s Wrongful Demise of a Minor Act. In an opinion concurring with the ruling, Chief Justice Tom Parker declared that the folks of Alabama have adopted the “theologically primarily based view of the sanctity of life” and mentioned that “human life can’t be wrongfully destroyed with out incurring the wrath of a holy God.”
Payton Armstrong of media watchdog Media Issues for America reported at the moment that on the identical day the Alabama resolution got here down, an interview Parker did on this system of a self-proclaimed “prophet” and Q-Anon conspiracy theorist appeared. In it, Parker claimed that “God created authorities” and referred to as it “heartbreaking” that “now we have let it go into the possession of others.”
Parker referred to the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” a principle that appeared in 1975, which claims that Christians should take over the “seven mountains” of U.S. life: faith, household, training, media, leisure, enterprise…and authorities. He advised his interviewer that “we have deserted these Seven Mountains they usually’ve been occupied by the opposite facet.” God “is looking and equipping folks to step again into these mountains proper now,” he mentioned.
Whereas Republicans are break up on the choice about embryos after plenty of hospitals have ended their common IVF packages out of worry of prosecution, others, like Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley agreed that “embryos, to me, are infants.”
Home speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) identifies himself as a Christian, has argued that america is a Christian nation, and has referred to as for “biblically sanctioned authorities.” At a retreat of Republican leaders this weekend, because the nation is grappling with each the necessity to help Ukraine and the necessity to fund the federal government, he tried to rally the attendees with what some referred to as a “sermon” arguing that the Republican Occasion wanted to save lots of the nation from its lack of morality.
As Charles Blow of the New York Occasions put it: “In the event you do not assume this nation is sliding towards theocracy, you are not paying consideration.”
This insanity is happening within the USA proper now.
Liz Truss was talking at a convention selling this sort of insanity this week.
After which word this, reported by Harry Coles within the Solar, primarily based on feedback made by Boris Johnson to the identical far-right assume tank convention that Truss was talking at. He mentioned:
If you look again at Trump’s final time period in workplace there’s little doubt that the world felt safer and calmer and extra secure. Proper now a lot of the world is craving the soundness that goes with robust and decisive American management.
So there now we have Johnson enjoying straight into the fascist copy-book portrayal of the robust male chief because the saviour of the world.
Theocratic fascism is threatening us all. We actually do must get up to it.
