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  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  A majority of private schools in the state are Christian, and in 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a restriction on Montana religious schools' receiving funding from such tax-credit programs.
  Judges may have slowed the Legislature's momentum, but Henry Kriegel, an influential lobbyist with Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers group, told me that 2021 was the group's most successful session in Montana in a decade, citing several bills that restricted government regulation.
  The attorney general, began a counteroffensive, asking the state Supreme Court to overrule the judge - and to reconsider the 1999 case that linked abortion to the State Constitution's right to privacy.
  
  
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context: Montana has a tradition of ticket-splitting and has long been one of the most politically independent states in the union, resisting the kind of single-party rule that has flourished in the neighboring states of Idaho and Wyoming. But in recent years, Republicans have managed to secure an ironclad grasp over state government, and the religious right is ascendant. “We’re a country founded on Christian ideals,” Austin Knudsen, the attorney general, told me. “That’s what’s made us the country that we are.” In 2021, the Montana Legislature passed a bill banning transgender athletes on sports teams at public schools and universities, an increased tax credit benefiting private Christian schools and numerous anti-abortion laws. “They’re trying to convert the state,” said Whitney Williams, who ran for governor as a Democrat in 2020. When the state G.O.P. gathered in Billings last July to formalize its platform, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, told those assembled that Montana was “a symbol for the nation.”
  
  And how did Nationalist Christians take control of Montana?
  Citizens United was a big help. The GOP governor being a billionaire who can spend his own money to win didn't hurt.
  
  Changes to campaign-finance laws have also contributed to tipping the balance of power in the state. Following the 2010 Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case, a dark-money group that became known as American Tradition Partnership challenged Montana’s 1912 law that prohibited corporate spending on campaigns. In 2011, the Montana Supreme Court upheld the law, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ruling the following year, and corporate money poured into Montana. State law still restricts direct corporate spending on local elections, but political-action committees and dark-money groups have injected money into divisive contests and, as in much of the country, there’s no limit on candidates’ donations to their own campaigns. >
  
  Every time I hear someone say "America was founded on Christian ideals" I ask them "Which ones?" Jesus explicitly said "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" meaning pay your taxes. Paul told the church in Rome to "obey every law of man". Those concepts don't really give room for an armed rebellion against the government because you don't like the tax laws. >
  
  A better example is to refer people to The Treaty of Tripoli. It states "In so much as the United States is not a Christian nation..." >
  
  Or the 1st amendment >
  
  Well, considering they voted in Gianforte the day after he assaulted a reporter, there’s no surprise here. >
  
  70% of the ballots or something like that had already been cast by the time of the assault, so it was too late to change very many votes.
  We probably would have elected him anyway, but FYI. >
  
  We keep electing him to even after that so it’s safe to say he still would’ve won. I have family that liked him even more after the episode 🤮 >
  
  This is all explained in the documentary Far Cry 5. >
  
  First thing that came to mind lol
  Hopefully we can hook up with Joseph seed before the Nukes fall. >
  
  If they are anything like the dakotas, folks only watch Fox News. As if it is THE news. >
  
  It’s like that in most of sparsely populated parts of the country. When I was in northern Michigan, I sitting at a bar and had my fill of Fx News and asked the bartender if he could change it to the Red Wings game, dude told me he couldn’t because there might be Disney commercials and other liberal propaganda. >
  
  We’re doomed >
  
  This sucks, When I was traveling for work I loved going to Montana back in 2013-15.  I liked it so much I was looking at land out there to build a retirement cabin eventually.  It's a beautiful state.  But now I wouldn't dare being a Liberal Non-Christian, and I'm a white dude. >
  
  I'm a liberal non-christian living in Montana. I haven't had any issues and I live in a very conservative town. The crazies were way more flagrant in the suburbs of Ohio, where I'm from. >
  
  I am also a liberal non-christian living in a very conservative rancher town. No issues >
  
  I have family who moved to Montana from CA. They’re the Bakersfield type of Californian who gobble up Qanon crap. You’re welcome Montana. >
  
  As a Montanan: that's literally a meme at this point. Can you take them back? >
  
  Don’t look at me, I prefer to have as little contact as possible with that particular branch of the family >
  
  As someone who lived in Montana for 22 years, can confirm.
  I worked in education, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, medical/nursing programs at the community college level especially were swamped with inquiries from out-of-staters wanting to move in and enroll in those programs solely because they believed that in Montana, they wouldn't be forced to get vaccinated and wouldn't be taught critical race theory. It's people like that that have contributed to the state's population surge over the past couple of years.
  I gave up the mountains and the suffocating Christian nationalist environment for the coast of Maine and it feels like the best decision I've ever made. >
  
  Saving as much as possible to do the same. >
  
  May fortune smile upon you, friend. I hope you succeed. >
  
  SO the Gianforte family has dumped tons of money into Montana Politics, donated millions to the State University, got their former employee elected governor, and more . . . seems like this turn to Christian radicalism has coincided with the wealthy Gianforte family coming to basically own Montana politics. He's a modern-day baron. >
  
  Being a Montanan used to mean that it wasn't any of my goddam business how many kids a woman wanted to have. I fear for the future of women here. >
  
  I was born and raised in Alberta before moving onto the big beautiful world. These people are like many others world wide, they are simple. They want a peaceful life for the most part and don’t really ‘learn’ anything new from high school graduation onwards. 
  They are easily influenced by mischaracterization, generalization and misinformation. In many cases they are ignorant and lack worldly experience. Most often they will be bullheaded and unable to see another point of view other than what has been ‘taught’ to them. 
  When you add into the mix, Alberta politicians, often vain and equally ignorant former TV/Radio broadcasters who understand how to speak and manipulate, you get this. It wasn’t an overnight thing, it’s been there for decades, growing and swelling from a time when government did the dairy farmers bad, or wasn’t there for wheat farmers against the pool or so on and so on. 
  It’s BS. I’ve sat around more than a dozen tables in my time as just a ranch hand when I was 18, to hear enough moaning about the Trudeau family to last three lifetimes. As if everyone had a personal grudge story. Stupidity. >
  
  Nazis with a cross? >
  
  
  Nazis with a cross?
  
  Nazis had crosses and are an actively christian organization.
  So, just Nat-Cs doing Nazi things. >
  
  I think this is direly misinformed. While the religiosity of individual Nazis was largely Christian. The actual leadership was either extrememly anti-clerical or strange neo-pagans. Hitler for one made remarks on how he admired Islam and despised christianity for being weak. Himmler was the weird Neo-pagan type. 
  And lastly any Catholic who joined the Nazi party was excommunicated by the Pope. >
  
  
  I think this is direly misinformed.
  
  It's not.  The Nazi party was, and is, a christian organization.
  
  While the religiosity of individual Nazis was largely Christian. The actual leadership was either extrememly anti-clerical or strange neo-pagans. Hitler for one made remarks on how he admired Islam and despised christianity for being weak. Himmler was the weird Neo-pagan type.
  
  They literally promoted christianity and forced christianity and professed christianity.
  They were and are a christian organization.
  
  And lastly any Catholic who joined the Nazi party was excommunicated by the Pope.
  
  That doesn't change the fact that they were and are a christian organization. >
  
  Even had a Mormom sect right there in the heart of Germany. Absolutely serious. Doing all the fun ground work to grind up their former neighbors. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  A majority of private schools in the state are Christian, and in 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a restriction on Montana religious schools' receiving funding from such tax-credit programs.
  Judges may have slowed the Legislature's momentum, but Henry Kriegel, an influential lobbyist with Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers group, told me that 2021 was the group's most successful session in Montana in a decade, citing several bills that restricted government regulation.
  The attorney general, began a counteroffensive, asking the state Supreme Court to overrule the judge - and to reconsider the 1999 case that linked abortion to the State Constitution's right to privacy.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: bill^#1 state^#2 Montana^#3 judge^#4 law^#5 >
  
  I did not see that one coming. >
  
  Goddamn peggies >
  
  There’s a competition among several red states to be the most politically extreme. It’s an arms race of the wackos. If it draws the wackos away from other parts of the country then so be it. >
  
  These people are unchristian. John Bircherism is heresy.
  "You cannot serve both God and money." >
  
  They'll look high, they'll look low >
  
  They'll look everywhere we go. >
  
  I think people greatly underestimate the prevalence and effect of right wing political radio and right wing "Christian" radio. >
  
  Literally the plot of Far Cry 5 in Montana >
  
  Damn it you beat me to it >
  
  Californians have fucked this state dry. Their arrival has turned Montanans into hateful bigots along with the arrival of the Texans >
  
  Montana = the new Gilead. >
  
  Rural Merica has been firmly planted in Christian Nationalism since before your grandma’s grandma was born. This is not news. >
  
  I'm OK with this. Let them draw as many likeminded people to move there and then they can just live there and leave the rest of us alone. Maybe we can get them to secede. >
  
  As a Montanan: it's beautiful, has a vast wildnerness, has a small population, and has wonderful liberal enclaves. We're not Texas, so stop it. >
  
  Texas is far less red than Montana. Weird example. >
  
  Montana has had a Democrat governor recently, unlike Texas. >
  
  More than that. Bullock's two terms as a Dem governor directly followed Schweitzer's two terms as governor. So Montana had 16 years of Democrats at the helm. More still, Steve Daines occupies the Senate seat formerly occupied by Max Baucus, a Democrat, who retired in 2014 after 36 years as a Senator. Which means that during Schweitzer's terms, MT had a Dem governor and BOTH Senators were Dems (Tester was elected in 2006). >
  
  Tolerance for religious intolerance has gone too far.
  Tolerance of homophobes is a failed experiment in this country.
  We would all be better off with fewer homophobes. >
  
  How did an already fascist state take a hard right turn? >
  
  Yeah we’re such a fascist state that we re-elected a progressive governor with over 60% of the vote in 2008, democrats held the governors mansion until very recently, democrats made gains in the state house last year, workers and unions are venerated, we voted down a born-alive referendum last year, we voted for legal weed with over 56% in favor, and we’re on track to re-elect Jon Tester who is a democrat. but yeah we’ve always been a fascist state >
  
  Much of what you said here is directly contradicted by the article >
  
  Literally all of those things are undeniable facts that happened lmao >
  
  So glad I got out!