Vincent James is the host of the Red Elephant podcast and was a speaker at the November 2020 “Million Maga March,” and he’s letting the world know that the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is just the beginning of what right-wing extremists have planned for women now that abortion has been made illegal in at least a dozen states.
Right Wing Watch came across remarks James made on his podcast this week in which he proudly proclaims:
“This is the era of Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism is on the rise and people are thirsty for it, hungry for this! And we are the Christian Taliban and we will not stop until The Handmaid’s Tale is a reality, and even worse than that to be honest.”
James then added:
“There was this article from The Atlantic that was like [Justice Sam] Alito is on a mission to roll back the rights of women and roll back the past hundred years of rights that were given to women. Yes, that is what we’re doing and it’s only going to get worse for you from here.”
If there was any doubt about the far-right's agenda, white nationalist Vincent James makes it explicitly clear: "We are the Christian Taliban and we will not stop until The Handmaid's Tale is a reality, and even worse than that." pic.twitter.com/2w3rNdX7V4
Make no mistake. This is exactly what the extreme right-wing has in mind for American women. They want to impose their religion on others and make it an American Taliban that is intolerant of anyone who isn’t white, Christian, and male.
These people have to be stopped. And more importantly, their supporters in the Republican Party have to be voted out of office at every level. If we don’t stop them now, the United States will become little more than a western version of Afghanistan.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson has had quite enough of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and he’s making it clear that Thomas has jeopardized his own interracial marriage with his ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade.
HuffPost reports that Jackson vented his feelings on Twitter:
The same rationale the conservative court employed to reverse the 1973 decision on abortion rights could now be used to eliminate the right to same-sex marriage, contraception and interracial marriage, which was protected in the 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling, lawmakers and scholars fear.
Jackson bashed Thomas as “Uncle Clarence” in a Friday night tweet, referring to the excessively servile Black character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s pre-Civil War novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
“How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about Overturning Loving v Virginia??!!”
How’s Uncle Clarence feeling about Overturning Loving v Virginia??!!
Loving v. Virginia was also based on the right of privacy, but conservatives on the high court have now decided that none of us have any privacy since that right isn’t specifically laid out in regard to abortion, contraception, same-sex marriage, or even interracial marriage:
In a solo concurring opinion Friday, Thomas suggested that the court should “correct the error” by withdrawing granted rights now protected under the “substantive due process clause” of the 14th Amendment.
Thomas, however, didn’t bother to mention marriage between adults of different races, probably because he’s married to a white woman and overturning Loving would make his marriage null and void, as many others pointed out as they discussed the blatant hypocrisy in what Thomas wrote in his opinion to overturn Roe, which has stood for nearly 50 years:
Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff behind the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on same-sex marriage, said Friday that Thomas omitted Loving v. Virginia on his list of top court decisions to “reconsider” because it “affects him personally.”
That “affects him personally, but he doesn’t care about the LGBTQ+ community,” Obergefell said on MSNBC’s “The Reid Out.”
Jackson got plenty of support from others on Twitter, too:
During a “Save America Rally” in Mendon, Illinois on Saturday, Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) said the quiet part out loud as she praised failed, one-term former president Donald Trump for appointing three right-wing activist justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who voted Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, making abortion illegal in eleven states, with more expected to follow suit.
According to Mediaite, Miller was introduced by Trump, who declared the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to be a “victory for the constitution,” “victory for the rule of law,” and “victory for life.”
When Miller stepped to the microphone, that’s when the controversy began:
“Thank you so much President Trump,” began Miller. “I am so honored to have your endorsement.”
The Congresswoman proceeded to thank Trump specifically on “behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America” for the Supreme Court decision, but then she said something that has the whole internet and political world in shock.
It sounds like she thanks him for the “historic victory for white life,” and that’s how people are sharing the quote.
Miller: President Trump… I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday pic.twitter.com/RqxmbT8jx5
That was all it took for video of Miller’s comments to go full viral on social media, where many commenters noted that the congresswoman had revealed the real agenda of the so-called “pro-life” crowd: To have more white babies born so that Caucasians don’t become a minority in the United States.
"The historic victory for white life." A Freudian slip, or saying the quiet part out loud? We know it's exactly what they are thinking. https://t.co/pLEiLoEzsT
for those of you who will claim this is a slip of the tongue, miller famously said "hitler was right about one thing, whoever has the youth has the future" on the morning of january 6 – which got lost in the chaos. https://t.co/ufSNvkJKVDhttps://t.co/SoBV9oYUPW
Joel Osteen is the pastor at one of the biggest churches in the United States — Lakewood Chuch in Houston, Texas — and is seen on television by millions of people each and every week.
But a sermon Osteen started to give on Sunday was interrupted by three female pro-choice protesters who stripped down and made it clear they demanded to be heard, according to a report from Mediaite:
The Lakewood Church congregation, led by pastor Joel Osteen, began reciting their morning prayer which opens every service at the church.
“This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do,” they said in unison. “Today I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confessed. My mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same.”
“God bless you!” Osteen replied as the congregation began to take their seats.
Right before Osteen was to begin his Sunday message however, a group from ‘TX 4 Abortions’ sitting close to the center of the stage, began to remove their clothing and shout.
Pro-choice activist Julianne D’Eredita yelled:
“It’s my body, my fucking choice!”
She was followed by the next woman, who loudly exclaimed:
“Overturn Roe, Hell No!”
D’Eredita then changed the opening prayer around to fit the moment:
“I am who I say I am, I do what I say I can do, because I have a choice!”
— Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights (@riseup4abortion) June 5, 2022
The three women were quickly escorted out by security, and once outside, D’Eredita told a local Houston TV station:
“I know it seems very outrageous to do it in a church in a private space. However, the people that are enforcing these laws have no qualms coming up to women in private spaces such as doctors’ offices and medical clinics to harass them and call them murderers.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki spoke with eloquence and poignancy on Monday when asked about the possibility that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that gave women in the United States the right to make their own reproductive choices without government interference, may soon be struck down by at least five right-wing, reactionary members of the current high court.
Asked by a reporter about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) threat to enact a federal ban on abortion if Republicans retake control of Congress after the midterm elections, Psaki replied:
“I think we’re at serious risk. As you noted Mitch McConnell and other Republicans in Congress are talking about a national ban on a woman’s right to choose. Dozens and dozens of Republicans in Congress signed on to the Mississippi court case and are advocating for severe restrictions on a woman’s right to choose, and a woman’s right to make choices about her own body.”
Referencing that Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) had indicated his state might also seek to enact legislation that would criminalize the use of contraception, Psaki added:
“So as the President has said, over the course of the last nearly week, his concern is about yes, a woman’s right to make choices about her own health care, about what this final [Supreme Court] opinion could be. It’s also about what choices could be made that go beyond that. I’d also note that Louisiana legislators advanced a bill to classify abortion as homicide which would allow women to terminate their pregnancies to be charged with murder and potentially criminalized in vitro fertilization and forms of birth control. So in some ways, yes, you’re seeing an outcry by the nearly two thirds of the public and many of them peacefully protesting, who are concerned about what this opinion will say, but you’re also seeing a number of Republicans in states and some in Congress double down on this potential to overturn a law that has been the law of the land for 50 years.”
A few minutes, in response to an other question about the possibility of Roe being overturned, Psaki noted:
“When we’re talking about Roe, Roe has been the precedent for a number of other laws passed by the Supreme Court that impacts people’s fundamental lives, their basic rights, their freedoms, their privacy and their protections, including if you look back Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstaedt v. Baird, which ensured the right to use contraception was protected. That is law now, but we are clear-eyed about this being a precedent for that and what could come next. Obergefell v. Hodges, which protects the right to marry. Lawrence v. Texas, which stops government from preventing sexual relationships between consenting adults. For 50 years Roe has been the basis for a number of these decisions that have have impacted and change people’s lives, in our view for the better.”
Q: "How at risk does the administration believe the U.S. is to completely outlawing abortion?"
This country is supposed to be about self-governance as much as possible, especially on matters that are as personal as whether or not to have a child. Granted, the Founding Fathers didn’t directly address the issue of abortion or contraception, but consider these words from Thomas Jefferson:
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.”
