It’s definitely scary when a person who was complicit in the sexual abuse of college wrestlers is considered the spiritual leader of the political party. Of course, this is coming from a statutory rapist. 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/southern-baptists-battling-divisions-gather-181436772.html (NYT reprint on yahoo)
Barber’s rival, Tom Ascol, is a Florida pastor who has criticized what he describes as the denomination’s leftward drift on issues including gender, sexuality, abortion and critical race theory, which the convention publicly affirmed as a potentially useful “analytical tool” in 2019. He has called for Baptists to be “culturally uncompromising.”
Ascol has condemned the sexual abuse documented in the recent report, but has warned against overly sweeping reforms that he says could compromise individual churches’ autonomy and finances.
Ascol is president of Founders Ministries, an influential organization that is part of an energized ultraconservative wing of the denomination. “We believe that God is watching, that He alone defines our terms and sets our agenda,” wrote a group of conservative Baptist leaders in nominating Ascol to the presidency in March. “And God is not Woke.”
Wait, what? They understood what it actually is and how it is used?
Oh.
I see.
This was before the weaponisation of the term.
Because of course she’s a raging hypocrite
It’s always projection.
“Rights for me, but not for thee” is pretty much exactly on point for the GQP. something something bind but not protect…
Wow. That’s a very telling statement. An actual Christian would be very aware that – by definition – their God is the most ‘woke’ being in the universe.
If these pocket pardons don’t have to be filed or registered, what’s to stop him from writing new ones, back-dated?
The rapid march backwards accelerates.
The Texas GOP blocked Log Cabin Republicans from having a booth at the convention.
“Homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice,” the plank says. “We believe there should be no granting of special legal entitlements or creation of special status for homosexual behavior, regardless of state of origin, and we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values. No one should be granted special legal status based on their LGBTQ+ identification.”
is it “special legal status” to not be murdered by hateful bigots?!
fuck the bigots and their ideology of hate having more rights than love.
I wouldn’t have guessed this reaction.
Is the next question: “How many abortions have you paid for?”
Absolutely none!
(They had to pay for everything themselves, what, do you think I hung around? Are you crazy? I ghosted them the moment they got to the “r” in “I’m pregnant”.)
He’s just the latest in a long line of GOP/GQP candidates who share similar qualities (see below), so I wouldn’t have expected anything else.
It’s just astounding how stupid people can be when trying to suck up to the far right.
They’re coming for you, Peter Thiel. It’s just a matter of time.
Something about Leopards eating people’s faces…
