Moms for Liberty pretends to be about freedom, idealism, and parental rights. What could be more American than respecting the right of everyone to practice the religious faith of their choice or none at all?
That’s not what M4L wants.
This recently discovered video reveals their religious agenda.
Jennifer Cohn reported in The Bucks County Beacon:
On February 14, 2021 (Valentine’s Day), Moms for Liberty (M4L) advisory board member Erika Donalds stood with her husband, Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL), on a brightly lit stage inside a darkened Florida church. Clutching a microphone, Erika declared that, “We will … rise up as the most powerful voting bloc and political force in the entire world as Christians!”
The event was hosted by Truth and Liberty Coalition, a Colorado-based Christian Right nonprofit that seeks to take over public school boards in Colorado and beyond. The video from the event (which I recently unearthed) began with an announcement: “We believe we have a mandate to bring godly change to our nation and the world through the seven spheres or mountains of influence.”
M4L is a nationwide “parental rights” organization. Like Truth and Liberty, M4L strives to take over and transform public school boards in their own Christian “conservative” image. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated M4L as an extremist group due to their anti-LGBTQ+ policies and ties to the Proud Boys, which led the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
The organization’s ties to religious zealotry, however, have received less attention.
“Truth and Liberty,” the nonprofit that hosted Mr. and Mrs. Donalds, was founded by pastor Andrew Wommack, who has said that gay people should wear warning labels on their foreheads. Its board of directors includes Lance Wallnau, a self-described Christian nationalist, who said in 2020 that America “must destroy the public education system before it destroys us.”
Wallnau also popularized the “seven mountains” mandate trumpeted by Truth and Liberty. The mandate is a supposedly divine strategy used by Christian supremacists in order to achieve societal dominion for God, as I’ve reported previously. They seek control over these seven “mountains” or “spheres”: business, government, family, religion, media, entertainment, and education.
In addition to Wallnau, Truth and Liberty’s board of directors includes David Barton, a “seven mountains” proponent with a dubious “doctorate” whose books and lectures teach that the separation between church and state is a myth. Barton had one of his books pulled in 2012 because the “basic truths just were not there,” according to the publisher.
Barton interviewed M4L co-founder Tina Descovich last year. His son, Tim Barton, spoke during M4L’s 2023 summit.
The younger Barton has said that “God never intended education to be secular.”
How does Tim Barton know what God intended?
Please open the link and read the article, then watch the video.
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Linda has been warning about the political plans of these Christian nationalist groups. They want to remake our country into a right wing Christian theocracy. It is fitting that these “children of the corn” embrace Betsy DeVos and all her $upport. BTW I couldn’t get the video link to work.
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It is ironic that the religious right has largely ignored Ukraine’s plight, and they tend to be more accepting of Russia’s authoritarian dominance. In areas of Ukraine under Russia’s control, the Russians have been attacking and killing fundamentalist Christian leaders. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-advances-persecution-campaign-against-evangelicals-ukraine-isw-1800779
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The religious right likes Putin and imagines that he respects traditional religious ways.
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I couldn’t either.
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I see nothing wrong with Christians running the school board. They would be inclusive, dedicated to helping the marginalized, healing the sick, and love for all humanity. What could be wrong with that? It would mean health care for all, love and acceptance for all people, and the elimination of greed and hostility everywhere. It would mean an end to the politics of fear. It would mean the end of the unholy alliance between faux-Christian pretenders and cynical politicians who use them for power. The dictator would no longer align with the priest, and the Lion would lie down with the lamb. They would declare the year of jubilee, wiping out all debts. The homeless will be housed. A little child would lead them.
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They already have a big, obnoxious “Baby Huey, enfant terrible” leading them, Donald Trump.
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It occurred to me recently that the alliance between the priest and the despot was antithetical not just to democracy but to Christianity as well. This alliance has happened in history due to church structure that promotes ideas friendly to the economic success of the powerful, a stance decidedly opposite that of Christ
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There’s a handy resource for seeing what happens in a theocracy: Iran.
Wanna live like they do? Want to wait for the knock at the door because you, even unwittingly, offended some theocrat you never even met. WANNA GO TO JAIL? WANNA DIE?
Oh yes, these and other trials await you once you say, “My god is red hot, your god ain’t doodly squat.”
(Credit for the “red hot” line goes to Gene Lyons.)
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First, they are not Christians. That is another one of their lies, although I suspect they believe that lie is not a lie.
They are a white supremacist religious cult, but not Christian. They are racist Fundamentalists who live be a strict literal translation of whatever so-called Christian Bible they swear by. Probably translated by whoever launched their fake Christian cult.
How many different English translation are there of the Bible?
“According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2023, speakers of 3,658 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,264 languages with a book or more, 1,658 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 736 the full Bible.”
“Partial Bible translations into languages of the English people can be traced back to the late 7th century, including translations into Old and Middle English. More than 100 complete translations into English have been produced.[1][2] A number of translations have been prepared of parts of the Bible, some deliberately and some projects have been abandoned.[3]”
This fundamentalist cult is also more dangerous than most if not all immigrants, ISIS, the Taliban, Iran, al Qaeda, and even Putin. Because they are our enemy that is already inside our gates.
With access to nuclear weapons, they would use them without hesitation.
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George Bush is a “born again” Christian. Look what he did in Iraq.
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I wish all test questions were this easy:
How does Tim Barton know what God intended?”
Answer:
His personal god told him so.
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