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Republicans' Romance With Religious Right Takes Stage At Ralph Reed's Road To Majority This Week
The Religious Right’s love affair with the Trump administration will continue with this week’s Road to Majority conference, which is produced by Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition and a range of right-wing sponsors, including Liberty University’s Helms School of Government, the American Enterprise Institute, the Charles Koch Institute, Concerned Women for America, and United in Purpose.
There’s no question that the event will feature Senate Majority Leader McConnell and other speakers gloating about the Republican Senate working with President Trump to fill the federal courts with far-right ideologues who will spend the next three or four decades undermining Americans’ rights and legal protections. At last year’s Road to Majority, speakers were explicitly clear that they hope hundreds of Trump-nominated judges, and a few Supreme Court justices, will fulfill the right-wing vision of repealing, in the name of constitutionalism, Great Society and New Deal social programs along with marriage equality and abortion rights.
For example, White House staffer Paul Teller told attendees at last year’s conference that the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was a “huge, huge, huge victory” that “is really going to change America.” He said if Trump gets another Supreme Court nominee, he will create “epic, titanic shifts.” McConnell staffer Erica Suares bragged about the number of vacancies Trump has a chance to fill due to Republican senators’ “slow-walking” of Obama nominees, and she praised McConnell’s “laser-like focus on judges,” saying another Supreme Court nominee could “fundamentally change the country.”
This year, Vice President Mike Pence will give the keynote at Saturday night’s “Patriot Gala,” capping off conference appearances by Cabinet secretaries and White House staff including Kellyanne Conway, Ben Carson, Elaine Chao and Scott Pruitt.
Republican leaders and conservative legislators are also scheduled to be out in force, including McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Whip Steve Scalise; Sens. John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, David Perdue and Marco Rubio; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Doug Collins, Louie Gohmert, Barry Loudermilk, Kevin McCarthy, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Ann Wagner and Mark Walker; and state senators Mike Hough (Maryland), Bryan Hughes (Texas), Bruce Thompson (Georgia).
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/republicans-romance-with-religious-right-takes-stage-at-ralph-reeds-road-to-majority-this-week/
There’s no question that the event will feature Senate Majority Leader McConnell and other speakers gloating about the Republican Senate working with President Trump to fill the federal courts with far-right ideologues who will spend the next three or four decades undermining Americans’ rights and legal protections. At last year’s Road to Majority, speakers were explicitly clear that they hope hundreds of Trump-nominated judges, and a few Supreme Court justices, will fulfill the right-wing vision of repealing, in the name of constitutionalism, Great Society and New Deal social programs along with marriage equality and abortion rights.
For example, White House staffer Paul Teller told attendees at last year’s conference that the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was a “huge, huge, huge victory” that “is really going to change America.” He said if Trump gets another Supreme Court nominee, he will create “epic, titanic shifts.” McConnell staffer Erica Suares bragged about the number of vacancies Trump has a chance to fill due to Republican senators’ “slow-walking” of Obama nominees, and she praised McConnell’s “laser-like focus on judges,” saying another Supreme Court nominee could “fundamentally change the country.”
This year, Vice President Mike Pence will give the keynote at Saturday night’s “Patriot Gala,” capping off conference appearances by Cabinet secretaries and White House staff including Kellyanne Conway, Ben Carson, Elaine Chao and Scott Pruitt.
Republican leaders and conservative legislators are also scheduled to be out in force, including McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Whip Steve Scalise; Sens. John Cornyn, Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, David Perdue and Marco Rubio; Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Doug Collins, Louie Gohmert, Barry Loudermilk, Kevin McCarthy, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Ann Wagner and Mark Walker; and state senators Mike Hough (Maryland), Bryan Hughes (Texas), Bruce Thompson (Georgia).
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/republicans-romance-with-religious-right-takes-stage-at-ralph-reeds-road-to-majority-this-week/
RIP separation of church and state. 1781 - 2016. You will be missed.
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rubbing baby Jesus' head for good luck. 