Liberty University Students Came to the U.S. Senate on Thursday to Support Kavanaugh
September 29, 2018 September 28, 2018 / johnfea
Liberty University staged a rally for Kavanaugh (Huffington Post photo)
And their president, court evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr., was with them.
The Lynchburg News & Advance reports:
About 300 Liberty University students traveled to Washington, D.C. Thursday to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is under fire with two accusers alleging sexual assault and another claiming to have witnessed such behavior.
While the marathon Senate Judiciary Committee hearing unfolded on Capitol Hill, Liberty students attending a Concerned Women for America and Women for Kavanaugh rally. They also visited the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to show their support for the Judiciary Committee chairman.
"We wanted [Kavanaugh's] voice to be heard … and to support him and his family," said Victoria Belk, an LU student and president of LU's Young Women for America, a college chapter of CWA. "True equality is hearing from both sides; hearing him out was important to us."
Read the rest here. The Huffington Post has posted a video of the rally here.
Over at Religion News Service, Jason Lupfer argues that conservative evangelical support for Kavanaugh will cost them. Here is a taste of his piece:
Politically, white conservative Christians have been invaluable to the country club wing of the Republican Party, which put their zeal to work to end an era of social progress on civil rights, economic equality and fiscal health. The old guard used its newfound clout to enact deficit-financed tax cuts, decimate the labor movement and shift an ever higher percentage of the national income to those at the very top.
Meanwhile, their own principles suffered.
Few white evangelicals or conservative Catholics were put off by the party's embrace of leaders who demonized Islam, disparaged undocumented immigrants and rolled back voting rights. They helped ensure that the Republicans ended up abandoning morality altogether and nominating for president a vulgar, spiteful man who boasted of his own sexual assaults.
Now it seems that president has nominated a judge who shares the political values of conservative evangelicals but may have violated many of their morals. Drunken parties and sexual assault are the kinds of things that Liberty University — and Concerned Women for America — have abhorred in the past.
But they no longer seem to give these conservative evangelicals pause.
So often when religion and politics mix, religion is sullied. As the evangelicals have risen in prominence, we have heard less and less about the Old, Old Story, and wondered if they even believed it at all.
The country has suffered under this partnership as well.
Read the entire piece here. Much of what Lupfer writes here meshes well with my own work in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump.
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3 thoughts on "Liberty University Students Came to the U.S. Senate on Thursday to Support Kavanaugh"
Sheridan Jones
God-talk has become a very potent tool for the religious right leaders in their quest for political power. The symbiotic relationship between the GOP and the Trump Evangelicals attests to this fact. Whether or not the religious leaders truly believe in God is totally irrelevant at this point. Their insatiable hunger for power supersedes everything else.
I am not sure what value "belief in God" has if that particular deity is of one's own making. I would guess that most elected Democrat claim a belief in some type of God, yet their public policy is not directly tied to that stated belief.
scottus humilis
What is abhorred one day is ok today if it is a "believer". Believe me. And the believers do not countenance any freedom, rights, liberty or life. Heretics all.
Love reading the history in your book . Wish more were interested in how history repeats concepts but live for the soundor picture moment .
Are we all soon to be homo sovieticus as described by Marsha Gessen?