How Charismatic Catholic Groups Like Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise Inspired 'The Handmaid's
Tale"https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barrett-people-praise-group-inspired-handmaids-tale-1533293
Here is just another of the thousands of reasons why tRump's preferred candidate must NOT be confirmed, if appointed.
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The charismatic Christian parachurch organization, which was founded in South Bend, Indiana in 1971, teaches that men have authority over their wives. Members swear a lifelong oath of loyalty to one another and are expected to donate at least 5 per cent of their earnings to the group.
How Charismatic Catholic Groups inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale'
Members of People of Praise are assigned to personal advisers of the same sex—called a "head" for men and "handmaid" for women, until the rise in popularity of Atwood's novel and the television series based on it forced a change in the latter.
Atwood herself has previously referred to the practices of a charismatic Catholic group motivating her to write The Handmaid's Tale, set in the fictional Gilead, where women's bodies are governed and treated as the property of the state under a theocratic regime.
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Interesting article!
What an absolutely total insult to the memory of RBG!
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to the achievements and memory of RBG.
Just as Clarence Thomas was a colossal insult to the achievements and memory of the Great Thurgood Marshall!
someone to a lower court judgeship, although I do not understand what was on the minds of those Dems who voted for this then.
But when we are talking about the US Supreme Court, standards should be of the highest.
Of course, those standards have been degraded so much under tRump and the quality of his nominees, that the current Supreme Court looks more like a kangaroo court.
As an attorney myself (now ret'd), I have no respect at all for Thomas, Alito, or Kavanaugh, a jot of respect for Gorsuch, and a tiny bit more for Roberts. Kagan and Sotomeyer are certainly no RBGs. But I do respect their understanding and interpretations of the law for the most part.
If there were truly a Higher Power somewhere, it would strike down tRump, Pence, McConnell & Thomas on the spot. There would be nothing left but scorched earth and a smell of sulphur.
One can always dream.
It is truly sad how such fanatics have been able to hold such power in what we have always thought was an enlightened society. 
I was a "cradle" Catholic myself. I don't remember any "rapture" talk at all. But it is true that I have forgotten a lot.
I was raised in a conservative parish but no one was a fundy, nor was anyone insane like this group seems to be.
I long ago left the shackles of religion behind and will never put them on again.
But I respect those who are religious and practice the most basic tenets: "Do unto others as you would have then do unto you," and "Love one another" without making distinctions between "us' and "them."
Those who do not practice these tenets are NOT religious in any sense, no matter how loudly they proclaim their beliefs.
And I do NOT want any more fanatics of any kind on the US Supreme Court.
no longer practice any religion. 
