Chief Justice Tom Parker’s recent concurring opinion in a case granting rights to embryos drew criticism for invoking religious language
During a recent interview on the program of self-proclaimed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated that he is a proponent of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” a theological approach that calls on Christians to impose fundamentalist values on all aspects of American life.
Enlow is a pro-Trump “prophet” and leading proponent of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” a “quasi-biblical blueprint for theocracy” that asserts that Christians must impose fundamentalist values on American society by conquering the “seven mountains” of cultural influence in U.S. life: government, education, media, religion, family, business, and entertainment.
Enlow has also repeatedly pushed the QAnon conspiracy theory, sometimes even connecting it to the Seven Mountain Mandate. Per Right Wing Watch, Enlow has claimed that world leaders are “satanic” pedophiles who “steal blood” and “do sacrifices” and that “there is presently no real democracy on the planet” because over 90 percent of world leaders are involved in pedophilia and are being blackmailed.
On February 16, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people, with the same rights as living children, and that a person can be held liable for destroying them, imperiling in vitro fertilization treatment in the state. In a concurring opinion, Parker quoted the Bible, suggested that Alabama had adopted a “theologically based view of the sanctity of life,” and said that “human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.”
That’s the rub, isn’t it? We want a society where these people have a chance to make amends and become better people, and they want a society that kills anyone who exhibits WrongThink and doesn’t submit to NeoChristian Theocracy. If anyone deserves the suffering they want to dish out, it’s them, the only people who want to dish it out.
Also, we should be calling them NeoChristians because the embrace of Trump is absolutely a new depth of depravity from these people and we should be demarking the point when they simply went from classic “mildly racist Grandma Christian” to “full-blown Nazi ‘lets gas the Jews’ Christian.”
Like if they can’t see they’ve embraced a man who fits every description of the fucking Anti-Christ, they’ve failed to see that they’ve fully rounded the bend and become the very thing their stupid shit “holy book” warned against.