Showing posts with label Jennifer Rubin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jennifer Rubin. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Forget The Wall, Pussy -Grabbing Trump Now Making Secret Deals With Religious Extremists To Limit YOUR Liberty

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Dotard calling upon the deity at the recent National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. where hundreds of evangelicals came to kiss the ass of the nation's top pussy grabber.


Forget the stupid "wall" for now, even as the Dotard spewed 150 more lies about its value last night at his dope and pony show in El Paso  (e.g. that it brought crime down there when in fact crime went up 17 %).    While too many have had their brains and attention seized by Trump's fake border wall tropes, he's been making deals with religious  extremists to undermine American values, lives, freedoms.  And doing it by posing as a holy roller himself, when we all know he's a pervert and adulterer - not to mention the most colossal liar office holder ever. 

Cutting to the chase, let us accept as a primary proposition that an admitted, proud pussy grabber, as well as serial assaulter of women, cannot be "religious", "spiritual" or even morally decent. In fact, one can argue that the preponderance of evidence shows Trump lacks any moral compass at all, zero.  This elicits the question of how this swine could even preside over a national prayer breakfast, far less have all those in attendance kissing his fat, orange butt.  Hypocrisy anyone? What is wrong with these evangelical idiots anyway?

Hell, as the inimitable Richard Painter said - appearing as a guest on Chris Hayes'  All In  after the Stormy Daniels episode erupted:  "These folks are even prepared to let pass his perversions", e.g.




 As I noted in that blog post:

In an  In Touch interview with Stormy Daniels she described having a sexual affair with Trump which included her beating his ass with a FORBES magazine. .. Subsequently,  Mother Jones basically confirmed all the sordid details that Daniels described from her 2006 encounters  For reference, see:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/stormy-daniels-trump-spanking-forbes-and-shark-week.html



According  to a trove of  2009 emails exchanged between political operatives (advising Daniels at the time on a possible political campaign), the adult film actress claimed that her affair with Trump included spanking him with a copy of Forbes.  By one account,  a political consultant to Andrea DubĂ© related in an email that:

"He made her sit with him for three hours watching Shark Week. Another time he had her spank him with a Forbes magazine,



The magazine used evidently had Dotard's  face on the cover which no doubt provides endless material for any Freudian school psychiatrists and psychologists.   See this humorous take from  late night host Stephen Colbert:



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Now, it is quite true the Christian ascetics believed strongly that a good flogging was needed from time to time to keep the desires of the flesh in check.  As one website dealing with the lives and times of Christian ascetics put it:

"For St. Francis this attitude entailed fasting and self-flagellation for the disciplining of the body, which he called "brother donkey." This metaphor, beloved by the ascetics, expresses the idea of the body as a beast of burden that, according to Legenda maior, the life of St. Francis by St. Bonaventure (c. 1217–1274), "should be weighed down by hard work, often scourged with the whip, and nourished with poor fodder."

(cf. Asceticism - Western Asceticism - The Middle Ages - Self, Body, Practiced, and Church )

But I sincerely believe most rational Americans will agree with me that Trump, aka Dotard, was not enlisting Stormy to impart a spanking in order to subjugate  "brother donkey",    follow St. Francis or emulate any other ascetics.   Further, it is abundantly clear that Trump's peeing antics (in the infamous "pee tape")  which we know Putin is keeping for future extortion,   would not be the behavior of a sainted persona. As former MI 6 spy Christopher Steele pointed out in his dossier:



"Trump's perverted conduct in Moscow (2013) included hiring the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel. where he knew President and Mrs. Obama (whom he hated) had  stayed on one of their official trips to Russia, and defiling the bed where they had slept by employing a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers'  (urination) show in front of him.   The hotel was known to be under FSB control with microphones and concealed cameras in all the main rooms to record anything they wanted to."

This was reported in 2013, while Trump's spanking antics  with Stormy Daniels occurred in 2006,  little more than a year after his marriage to Melania and barely 3 months after the birth of son, Barron.

So why aren't evangelicals tarring and feathering his fat ass as opposed to kowtowing to him at prayer breakfasts?   WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin provided one of the best explanations which I also cited in my blog post link, e.g.:

"These white Christians are now, for the first time, not in the majority of the American people.  So they're no longer just leaders, they are grievance leaders.  They feel  this put upon, discriminated against, angry sentiment that their fellowship voices. They don't like being displaced from authority in society. They think women, they think immigrants, they think gays are somehow displacing them taking what is rightfully theirs. And these people are out to claim it. They believe - and in some really interesting polling - they think they are the victims and not African -Americans, and not gays in terms of discrimination in America. That is how twisted it is."

For which insights I give her a '10' out of 10. 

 Hmmmm....grievance leaders?  Poor little victims of those nasty "libtards", "commies", Blacks and gays. Oh, the pity!  No wonder so many Americans now are losing any impetus to join a religion. Seeing the spectacle of the 'hear no evil, see no evil' Evangelicals, how could they?



 The real issue is what these sanctimonious maggots are planning to do to the rest of us using Trump as their Trojan horse.  How much these vermin own Trump was exposed in the October 2018 issue of 'Church and State', in an article by Rob Boston - wherein we learn, that Right Christian extremist Rev. Johnnie Moore boasted on CSPAN that the Evangelical Advisory Board:

"Pays regular visits to the White House which can start with policy briefings from West Wing staff and agency official and end with impromptu visits to the Oval Office."

Moore added "the advisory board has a pretty significant hand in directing or affecting administration policy".  This can be on everything from immigration, to  LGBT soldiers in the military (i.e. keeping them out), to bans on abortion - even if the mother's life is in danger if carried out, or in the case of incest of a young teem.  And all of the policy outcomes disclose that "the Evangelical Advisory Board is not merely ceremonial, it has had substantial input on administration policies and decisions. 

Further, these moral degenerates are in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) a 1972 law that Congress enacted to: "ensure that advice by the various advisory committees formed over the years is objective and accessible to the public."

As noted by Mr. Boston (ibid.):

"Under FACA, all meetings of a presidential committee must be open to the public and a timely notice of each meeting must be published in The Federal Register.  In addition, interested parties must be permitted to attend meetings, appear before the committee and file statement with it.  Detailed minutes of each meeting must also be kept and various records related to committee meetings must be made available to the public".

Needless to say,  the Evangelical Advisory Board  has met none of these conditions. And yet "its members openly brag about the important work they're doing to formulate policies."  Yes, policies that would turn most Americans into religiously dominated serfs under the thumb of one or ,more Trump associates or Nazis. 

 Incredibly, the top Xtian Nazi, Rev. Johnnie Moore, to avoid scrutiny by The Washington Post in followup inquiries, claimed the advisory board doesn't really exist. According to Rev. Johnnie,   who must now be regarded as a rival liar to Trump (ibid.):



"The truth is there actually isn't a board. That's just slang language that's carried on from the campaign into the administration.  There is no formal faith advisory board of any sort at the White House."


Okay, well if that's the case we ought not expect any draconian laws or policies to pop up, eh? Say like limiting access to abortion providers, or disallowing LGBT folks from entering the military?  Otherwise, if such policies actually exist, and have been tweeted on and promoted by Trump - we know an advisory board had to be behind them. The reason? Trump lacks the brains and religious fervor to forge such policies on his own, he is being used as a puppet - just like Putin is using him. 

 Now some may retort at this point, "Hold on! Obama also had faith advisory councils!"  But let us make clear these differences:


- All Obama's advisory sessions were open to the public


- All notices for such were first published in The Federal Register.


-  All interested parties were allowed to attend the meetings.


- Obama's councils were uniformly non-partisan in contrast to Trump's


This is a rather different kettle of fish from operating in the shadows, then trying to deny such a board even exists when caught out.   Americans ought to be roused to fury by this B.S. but I understand there are more than ample issues inducing outrage right now  - so we will give people an "outrage pass".  But at least keep this shadowy collusion between the Trump Nazis and Evangelical extremists on your radar!


See also:





Brane Space: Narcissism, The Pre-Moral Mind and Donald J. Trump

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

As Before, No One With A Brain Ought To Waste Their Time Tonight On Trump's Hog Swill


"Oink, Oink! Now I got the whole country as my captive audience and I can tell 'em anything I want."

"With near-certainty, Trump will utter repeatedly debunked lies, lots of them. He’ll talk about national unity but take no responsibility for the deep divisions he has caused nor for the racism and hatefulness he has exhibited. He’ll make a slew of unfounded foreign policy pronouncements attributing newfound (and nonexistent) respect in the world to his own brilliance. (He seems not to notice that he is the subject of international derision and an endless source of frustration to allies.)

At least with a teleprompter, he can avoid the kind of word salads — or as Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) calls them, “word vomit”he tossed up in his interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan"  - Jennifer Rubin, 'Can We Skip To The State Of The Union Response',  Washington Post yesterday.


Fellow citizens, the state of our Union is currently foul and riven by divisions.  We know this because the human swine occupying the seat of power is the source of the pestilence and division.  With every byte of effluent he spouts or tweets the corruption eating away at the body politic increases.  Therefore, we know that the stage of the State of the Union tonight will only be used to further the pestilence by spreading more lies, discord and fear.  No one with a mind or what the theologians call "soul" needs to watch  his performance to confirm that.

Look, Trump, aka Dotard, is a DNA fusion of swine and human slime, a liar  and common thug running a criminal and treasonous enterprise from the White House.  Now...think I am suffering from "outrage fatigue" like too many screen -addicted Americans these days? Think again! I wake up every morning outraged at the spectacle of a bipedal maggot, barely human in any reasonable sense, fouling the People's house every day he exists, breathes and spouts more venom, lies and braggadocio.    I don't do small screens, nor am I hostage to Twitter, so I can devote my attention to many other more useful things, as well as reading.

And the more I read about Trump's planned State of the Union spiel tonight, the more I realize it will be more lying, more grandstanding to again try to make a specious case for his mythical wall.  And bear in mind this was never ever real, it was designed as a mnemonic.  The fact is we now know the "wall" was invented by Trump's then advisers as a memory image for when he was planning his campaign run.  They needed some quick and dirty device to keep Trump's  diminished and demented brain focused on immigration and figured a "wall" was the best bet.  "Just keep repeating 'wall, wall' wall'...".  See e.g.
Trump's defenders - even the semi-clever ones like Peggy Noonan - don't seem to get this. In her last column ('Mr.President, Tear Down That Word',  Feb. 2-3, p. A15)  Noonan seems on the surface to grasp that Trump is boxed in by his own fetishistic obsession with the word "wall" - which initially he didn't seem to care how defined ("They can even call it peaches!")  But then she resorts to taking backhanded slaps at both Pelosi ('What if a Prada bag with a gun in it became a person?') and the Dems in general ("The Democrats must defeat the president on that one word").  Failing to comprehend it isn't the word but rather the fact if the Dems cave to the Swine-in- chief's extortion he will use it again and again to try and get what he wants. This we cannot allow, not the Dems nor any upstanding citizens who declare they are genuine patriots - not paper patriots. 

But this is exactly why Trump is now salivating for the chance to spew his lies about his mythical "wall" on the grand stage tonight, to try to appeal to lower IQ people to back his spurious case that "we need it"

Why should Trump lie?    Why wouldn't he, especially after being afforded a grand stage,  which personally I don't think ought to have been offered until and unless the government was fully open.  Not like it is now, with a Dotard Damocles' shutdown sword hanging over it if the man baby doesn't like what the bipartisan conference come up with - threatening daily to order a "national emergency".  So all that's happened is that the extortionist has been given a national megaphone to renew threats and recycle his lies and fear mongering.  No one with a functioning brain deserves that. No one with even a half-functioning brain ought to subject it to such toxic twaddle.

There is now indeed even more reason to dodge this farce given we know how much  time this fool is wasting in office, thanks to Axios.  They got hold of his schedule and published it on their website - with the orange spaces all denoting "executive time", i.e. wasted time.  
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  Since the mid terms that translates into 60 percent of his time in office being "unstructured". The details include:

"Trump, an early riser, usually spends the first 5 hours of the day in "Executive Time". Each day's schedule places Trump in "Location: Oval Office" from 8 to 11 a.m.

  • But Trump, who often wakes before 6 a.m., is never in the Oval during those hours, according to six sources with direct knowledge.
  • Instead, he spends his mornings in the residence, watching TV, reading the funny papers, and responding to what he sees and reads by phoning aides, and tweeting about those who upset him."
"He's always calling people, talking to people," a senior White House official told Axios. "He's always up to something; it's just not what you would consider typical structure."

But why be surprised? We've known since Day One that Trump can't handle the job.  Recall the guy has never really worked at a real job outside of his family branding business, being a part time reality TV  prop and a real estate weasel and con man.  In the latter capacity he used bankruptcy (of multiple casinos) to make $$$ including off state governments as well as marks to whom he owed millions. This according to author and Trump specialist David Cay Johnston.  The little orange bitch  even bawled that the presidency had  turned out to be too much for him to deal with. Too many details, too much stuff to master and nowhere near the brain power for the task.  Hell, he refused to even read his daily briefs!  Hence, his penchant for becoming a cable TV and tweet addict. See e.g.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/donald-trump-stunned-to-learn-presidency-is-an-actual-j-1792215349

Excerpt:

Being president is harder than Donald Trump thought,” begins the article, neatly capturing the blithe, criminal ignorance that characterizes both Trump himself and the many dozens of millions of morons who thought he should be the leader of the free world. Yes, being the president is a harder job than Donald Trump would expect, because Donald Trump had never previously held an actual job, because actually, spending your inheritance on a succession of failed cons is not an actual job."

Now, given all this why on earth should any sensible person - far less responsible citizen-  let this grandstanding buffoon con him or her out of their time as well?

This is why wifey and I plan to forego the SOTU to instead watch the next to last episode of 'Counterpart' .  After which we will likely tune back in to MSNBC, after the dais has presumably been fumigated,  to watch Stacy Abrams' response to Dotard's word vomit. This will be worth watching given we know Ms. Abrams can separate fact from  fiction and BS.
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by Robert Reich | February 5, 2019 - 7:53am | permalink

Excerpt:

"Donald Trump says his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening will be about “unification”. But Trump discussing the state of the union is like pyromaniac discussing lighter fluids. His goal is, and has always been, disunion.


The man thrives on divisiveness. It’s how he keeps himself the center of attention, fuels his base and ensures that no matter what facts are revealed, his followers will stick by him."

And:

by Cody Fenwick | February 5, 2019 - 7:42am | permalink

Excerpt:

"When President Barack Obama was in office, Donald Trump used to attack him repeatedly and baselessly for supposedly not working hard enough for the American people. Since he’s become president, Trump’s Twitter habits have revealed his own excessive consumption of cable news, his golf schedule displayed an ample appetite for leisure, and reports found that his staff schedules large bulks of “executive time” — during which he has no formal duties — into his days."

Saturday, September 15, 2018

Bill Maher Blows It On Political Strategy - Dems Must Avoid Saying Anything That Fires Up The Trumpie Base



Bill Maher, who admitted donating $1 million to the Dems for their push to take back the House,was in high rant mode last night on  HBO's  'Real Time'.  In his final segment of 'New Rules' he fairly blasted the Democrats for not going all out ripping Donnie T. (for Traitor) Trump a new one, e.g.

"Someone has to tell me why all the best voices speaking out against Republicans are Republicans, Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, George Will, Brett Stephens, Joe Scarborough, Richard Painter, Michael Steele, Jennifer Rubin, Dave Jolly, Anna Navarro, Max Boot, David Frum"

They're the ones out there landing head punches, not any Democrat.  Even Trump's own people tear him down better than any Democrat. McMaster called him a 'dope', Mattis a 'fifth grader',  Steve Mnuchin 'Idiot', Reince Priebus, 'idiot'.  John Kelly 'fucking idiot', Rex Tillerson 'fucking moron'. Gary Cohn 'dumb as shit'"

And so on.

You can watch the whole rant here.
 .New Rule: Scary Socialism | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) - YouTube

All of this Anti- Trump lot have been spot on, skewering the slime- in- chief and also using cutting edge rhetoric to call attention to the ongoing GOP cowardice is bending over for Trump, enabling him.  But...they also have tons more credibility than any Dem trying to match their vehemence and put down power - precisely because they all hail from Republican tribal stock, and are also principled conservatives - as opposed to suck ups and submissives for the Trump cult.

Thus, they are the ones to go after Trump, not Dems, especially in any use of the I (for impeachment) word.   Hence, Bill's calling for the Democrats to be more outspoken is simply "poor politics" as Nancy Pelosi put it in a recent TIME magazine piece on her.  Why is it poor politics? I suggest anyone who needs to understand read Kimberley  Strassel's piece in the WSJ yesterday:

How Republicans Could Still Win - WSJ

Strassel's  optimal means to win?   Get the Trump idiot base all riled up to increase their yen to "protect their president".  Hence, using every tactic to try to invoke the specter of impeachment, or endless persecution  (and "unhinged rhetoric") by Dems - especially in the battlefield districts.  Or, in campaign ads, integrating any robust, anti-Trump rhetoric (pulled off the transom)  from assorted Dems that may appear threatening to the same base.

Smart guy that he is (certainly with close to a Mensa level I.Q.) Maher ought to know then the last thing Dems ought to do is play right into the Trumpie cult's hands. Do not deliver fodder for their upcoming campaigns, but instead keep a low profile and let the outspoken (and far more credible Reepo anti-Trumpers) do that for them.   After the House at least is taken back, there's time to be more outspoken - but even then the long game goal is to get rid of the Trump cabal entirely - i.e. in the 2020 general election.

For perspective, just imagine ANY Demo running for a House seat - especially in a battleground district - using just half the rhetoric most of Bill's cited critics have used.  They'd be inserted into GOP political ads in a heartbeat and it would be 'Katy, bar the door' when the election gets underway. (As guest Richard Clarke informed Maher, by one recent poll projection, the Ds get 206 seats, the Rs 205, and the others are "jump balls".   Point being this is not the time for complacency, or over-confidence by firing up the Trump base)

So hate to disagree, Bill, but this is the smart way to go,  though yes, it lacks the  appealing vitriol against Dotard we'd all like to see from the Ds.  But right now, with zero leverage or  political power, these are the cards they need to play.  Keep quiet on dissing Trump too much (or threatening indictment or impeachment) and let the Reepo critics or Never Trumpers do it for them.

Where I DO agree with Maher  is the need for more education about socialism, given the media and GOOPs appear determined to try to frighten Americans.  This is generally because our countrymen don't know enough, e.g.
But we just need those socialists (self declared) running in given districts to make clear there are many U.S. programs that already can be considered under that umbrella, including Social Security and Medicare.  Oh - also the GOP defense spending bills - to make more F- 35s as a jobs program, and bailing out heartland farmers because of Trump's tariffs. In other words, give exact examples when the 'S' word comes up, to show there are already multifold forms of socialism in the country.

But going full tilt on Trump with super harsh rhetoric is not a political winner, at least not yet.  We have the proper voices doing their job on Donnie Dotard and the GOP, let them continue. 

Monday, August 6, 2018

Atheists - And Other Minorities - Need A Heads Up On Sessions' "Religious Liberty Task Force"

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"And ah will ensure Dotard's.....errr.....Donnie's....religious liberty guidelines are followed by sidin' with the Devil!"


Atheists and other unwelcome minorities ought to be filled with trepidation at AG Jeff Sessions' new steps to implement a "religious liberty" task force and "guidance document". 

Unknown to many, on Monday, July 30th, the Department of Justice (DOJ) held a “Religious Liberty Summit” at which AG Sessions announced that the Department would be developing a “Religious Liberty Task Force.”  Sessions explained that the task force “will help the department fully implement our religious liberty guidance” — referencing a DOJ guidance document on “Principles of Religious Liberty” issued in October of 2017 — “by ensuring that all Justice Department components… are holding that guidance in the cases they bring and defend, the arguments they make in court, the policies and regulations they adopt, and how we conduct our operations.”  

Sessions noted that the “next step” for the DOJ and the Trump administration is to ensure compliance to the “religious liberty guidance” issued by the Department of Justice in the fall of 2017. The guidance document that the task force is charged with implementing was promulgated in accordance with Traitor Trump’s “Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty.” Trump signed the Executive Order in question in a ceremony on May 4th, 2017, the “National Day of Prayer,” in the White House Rose Garden. The guidance document, “Principles of Religious Liberty” was issued by  Sessions in a Memorandum for all Executive Departments and Agencies, on October 7, 2017, and is available here.

Let us take time to note here that Trump, a malignant, lying swine, has no more religious appreciation than a Satanic acolyte of the late Anton LaVey.   This degenerate not only is an open traitor, hostile to his country's highest principles as well as the Constitution - but is also a demagogue on the level of Hitler as he seeks to foment internal civil strife, e.g.
'Blood on the President’s Hands': Conservative Writer Warns That Trump Will Get Someone Killed

His moral radar is so blunted it's allowed him to have cavorted with assorted nymphs and models even as his  wife was caring for a newborn infant. And we won't even go into his self-admitted penchant for "pussy grabbing" and assaulting contestants for past Miss Universe pageants. So don't even hand me any blarney about this POS being "religious" or "moral". And if he isn't, his "Principles of Religious Liberty”  are twaddle and worse.

While the idea of such guidelines, i.e. to ensure religious protections, may sound beneficial to the larger society - think again. First, look at the moral character of the reprobate signing the E.O. A confirmed carouser, pussy grabber, and serial female assaulter - as well as pathological liar - with the ethics of a slug. Second, look at the lot who this moral slug is appeasing: the amoral evangelicals, willing to even overlook child molesters like Roy Moore, to advance their sick, illiberal and anti-human, discriminatory agenda.

Break it down and you have a corrupt White House - and illegitimate (traitor) occupant -  tossing another "plum" to the  white, evangelical voters. This time by enabling faith -based organizations to ignore non-discrimination laws at their convenience while still receiving federal funding. Thus, while religious extremists cheered the announcement, [progressives, civil rights groups - including secular humanists and atheist organizations (including our local Colorado Springs Atheist, Freethinkers) saw a threat to a different kind of religious freedom: freedom from religiously motivated discrimination, i.e. for women, atheists, LGBT citizens, and non-Christian religious folk (Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists etc.)

As Rev. Al Sharpton correctly put it yesterday morning on his MSNBC broadcast:

"I am a Baptist preacher, but I do not believe I have the right to impose my beliefs on others, by law."

Exactly! Because his religious rights stop where my own begin.  More generally, AG Sessions' manifesto for religious protections isn't worth an ounce of doggie lickspittle if  my own non-religious  are not also secured. The problem is that religious faith underscores the belief of evangelicals and other religious extremists in the superiority of their protections over mine, or over a Muslim's, or a young woman who needs birth control pills, or an LGBT person.

One of the most salient and compelling references to the perversity of religious faith was rendered by Sam Harris in his superb book, The End of Faith (pp. 65-66):

"Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse – constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility and candorIn the absence of evidence, to the highest place in the hierarchy of human virtues goes ignorance – the true coinage of the realm (e.g. John 20:29): “Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed”. And so every child is instructed that it is at the very least – an option - if not a scared duty, to disregard the facts of the world out of deference to the God who lurks in his mother’s and father’s imaginations..
This is the very same faith that will not stoop to reason when it has no good reason to believe…".


In the context of the above, Harris is saying that such beliefs, if strong enough, have the power to convince the religious brain that - despite the U.S. being founded on "religious freedom" - certain elements (e.g. white Christians)  have more than others.

But it gets worse given many believers from the Bible belt, namely hard core evangelicals of the type who supported Roy Moore in Alabama (for that state's special election last year), also accept their good book justifies slavery and worse. Some even want to return to bible -based morality.  Sure, it's comforting  for many of these yokels to crack open the King James Bible, turn to Psalms or some other book and mentally meander while delusionally believing one is suffused in righteousness - and has the god-ordained right to deny wedding cakes to gays or the sale of special coin collections to atheists. But in the end it's no more real than a coke addict's fantasies, because those rights are not inherent or fundamental in any religion. Thus, in the same way the deluded extremists believe they can withhold sales or services to fellow citizens whose lifestyles (or lack of beliefs) they don't like they similarly believe they can use a perverted, bogus law to impose their sexism, racism and xenophobia on the rest of us.

Clearly, the Bible - KJV or any other-   can't be taken literally. Further, the fact that evangelicals don't carry out their "good book's"  injunctions  (say in Leviticus) shows they don't take its verses literally.  Hell, they are even prepared to extol and seek comfort in an adulterer and pussy grabber like Trump!  See e.g.
http://brane-space.blogspot.com/2018/01/why-do-white-evangelicals-worship.html

So why is this religious liberty twaddle being trotted out?  Well, mainly to address the Bible punchers, namely white evangelicals, sense of grievance. As WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin put it (see preceding link):

"These white Christians are now, for the first time, not in the majority of the American people.  So they're no longer just leaders, they are grievance leaders.  They feel  this put upon, discriminated against, angry sentiment that their fellowship voices. They don't like being displaced from authority in society. They think women, they think immigrants, they think gays are somehow displacing them taking what is rightfully theirs. And these people are out to claim it. "


There you have it in a nutshell: these religious liberty guidelines are merely the means for a bogus law - not so different from the Reich laws of the Hitler era - to  confer powers on the "besieged" bible punchers that they believe are rightfully theirs.  Don't buy it?  Then you need to peruse the work of Andrew Whitehead,  an assistant professor of sociology at Clemson University. He recently published a study titled Make America Christian Again which  described the so-called quest for “dominion” as the aim of Christian white nationalists who consider that the Christian faith and their particular interpretation should be imposed nation wide.  

The worst part of this travesty is that the DOJ, Sessions and Trump actually think we - normal citizens - are to subsidize this B.S. with our tax dollars. Like we subsidized  Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop who refused to sell a wedding cake to David Mullins and Charlies Craig.

As an ACLU civil rights lawyer appearing on "Politics Nation" put it yesterday, this case ought to have been a no brainer, given the precedent of a 1965 case where a barbecue pit franchise tried to refuse service to black diners. That was on the basis of invoking the Bible because it "forbids" racial integration. A religious excuse was tried, and found wanting, as it ought to have been in the Colorado cake case.   That ought to have been a slam dunk given the operation of the law  in the commercial trade sphere cannot be a free for all where everyone does what he wants. That is,  selling services to some because they conform to notions of  deserving one's "religious self expression", but rejecting others out of a sense of violating one's religious faith or personal dignity. That is a prescription for economic anarchy.

Since Sessions cited this case in justifying the religious liberty task force guidelines, people need to be made aware of its limits, and indeed how it can veer into lawlessness.  The white religious extremists are making a final, desperate bid for a power grab - but they must be denied. It can't be on the back of a bogus law that endorses religious discrimination, or any other form.

See also:

Sessions’s “Religious Liberty Task Force” Sanctifies Discrimination