Robert Jeffress Met With Trump To Discuss Judicial Appointments

[Initech]

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who serves as a top evangelical ally to President Donald Trump, told Christian radio host Sandy Rios today that he met with Trump last week to discuss moving his judicial nominations through the Senate.

Jeffress, who has declared that God has authorized Trump to go to war with North Korea, pronounced that God had intervened to make Trump president and said that Trump’s border wall and his attacks on the media are soundly based in the Bible, told Rios that he told Trump that Senate Republicans were holding up his nominations.

“Listen, I want to be very clear about this, Sandy. I had the chance to talk to the president and his team last week about this bigger issue of these federal judge nominees being blocked,” Jeffress said.

Jeffress went on to claim that conservative evangelicals voted for Trump because he is committed to the idea of a “conservative judiciary.”

“He has fulfilled his commitment. He has made a record number of conservative nominations, but they are being held up, Sandy, by the conservative—by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee,” Jeffress said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/robert-jeffress-says-he-met-with-trump-last-week-to-discuss-judicial-appointments/

This is fucking scary. That guy has ZERO business even considering judicial appointments.

[niyad]

1. welcome to the reichwing theocracy

[madamesilverspurs]

2. Following a despicable pattern

The German Churches and the Nazi State

". . . In both German churches there were members, including clergy and leading theologians, who openly supported the Nazi regime. With time, anti-Nazi sentiment grew in both Protestant and Catholic church circles, as the Nazi regime exerted greater pressure on them. In turn, the Nazi regime saw a potential for dissent in church criticism of state measures. When a protest statement was read from the pulpits of Confessing churches in March 1935, for example, Nazi authorities reacted forcefully by briefly arresting over 700 pastors. After the 1937 papal encyclical Mit brennender Sorge "With burning concern" was read from Catholic pulpits, the Gestapo confiscated copies from diocesan offices throughout the country.

The general tactic by the leadership of both Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany was caution with respect to protest and compromise with the Nazi state leadership where possible. There was criticism within both churches of Nazi racialized ideology and notions of "Aryanism," and movements emerged in both churches to defend church members who were considered "non-Aryan" under Nazi racial laws (e.g., Jews who had converted). Yet throughout this period there was virtually no public opposition to antisemitism or any readiness by church leaders to publicly oppose the regime on the issues of antisemitism and state-sanctioned violence against the Jews. There were individual Catholics and Protestants who spoke out on behalf of Jews, and small groups within both churches that became involved in rescue and resistance activities (for example, the White Rose and Herman Maas). . . "

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005206



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