theocracy
stoat | February 12, 2012This is something I wonder about off-an-on; with Happy Birthday, Charles! The Phytophactor has now put clearly the "doom" version:
There was a time in this country when policy was debated, but then politicians found out it was easier to deny the science rather than debate policy, and now the people who do the science are being demonized. If these ideologues have their way the USA will fall even further under the sway of fundamentalist theocrats, and thus our society will begin to converge on that of Islamic countries charging forward into the past, the distant past, the Dark Ages, at a time…
stcynic | August 23, 2006Christopher Ortiz, editor of the reconstructionist journal Faith for All of Life and communications director for the Chalcedon Foundation, has authored a weakly reasoned defense of reconstructionism. In it, he takes on critics like Chip Berlet and Frederick Clarkson. Ortiz seems to miss completely the real argument against reconstructionism by focusing on tactics rather than on outcome. For instance, he criticizes Clarkson thusly:
The secularists are convinced that democracy itself is under siege by the dominionists. They proffer a false antithesis by suggesting that the theocracy advocated…
stcynic | July 24, 2006Roy Moore was interviewed on the American View radio program with Michael Peroutka and John Lofton recently. It included plenty of crazy and just plain false statements. Like this one, which went unchallenged by the hosts:
All Constitutions of every state at some level recognize God, as does the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The first amendment recognizes God? In what bizarro world does Moore live? It can't be this one. And then there's this bit of breathtaking hypocrisy:
You know, as recently as 1931 and 1946 the United States Supreme Court itself recognized that our…
stcynic | July 1, 2006Okay, this is just hilarious. A reader left a link to this and I had to move it up here. It's John Lofton on the Daily Show, being interviewed by Stephen Colbert about a children's book written by Lynne Cheney. I love the distinction he makes between "ultraconservatives" (like Lynne Cheney) and "oh my god I can't believe he said that" conservatives (like Lofton).
stcynic | June 29, 2006I've been having an amusing exchange with John Lofton, the theocrat who owns The American View. You'll recall that he left a comment at Positive Liberty with his phone number and asked me to call him. I politely said no, but that he is welcome to leave a comment objecting to anything I've said that he disagrees with, but in public where everyone can see it. So this afternoon, he emails me again with the same message in his comment, his phone number and a request that I call him. I'll paste the exchange in here so you can all can have a good laugh. Each line is from a separate email.
Ed: No…
stcynic | June 22, 2006Some time ago, I posted an essay showing why John Lofton, his website The American View, and the Constitution Party are dyed-in-the-wool theocrats bent on destroying our liberty. I posted it both here and at Positive Liberty. Today I got this comment from Lofton at PL:
Call me, please, Mr. Brayton, at 410-760-8885. Thank you. John Lofton.
How do I say this politely? "No". If you have anything in my post to dispute, Mr. Lofton, please post it here where everyone can see it.
stcynic | March 29, 2006Here's an amusing coincidence of two things I've written about lately, John Lofton (the loony Christian theocrat who runs theamericanview.com) and the Liberty University debate team. It seems that Lofton is quite upset that a few years ago Falwell gave the okay for the debate team to debate in favor of abortion when they had to (the subject was the right to privacy and some teams ran cases to ban abortion, so when they were negative they would have to argue for abortion or just give up the debate program for that year).
For openers, the "rules of college debate" which O'Donnell, obviously,…
stcynic | March 14, 2006John Lofton, the Constitution Party maven and genuine theocrat, has an essay up condemning Jay Sekulow as a mindless cheerleader for Bush's judicial nominees. Sekulow is the director of Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice. And just to show you in their own words how completely insane the Constitution Party is, take a look at this statement of what it would take for Lofton to support a judicial nominee:
1. An iron-clad, no-compromise insistence that all judicial nominees must, first, acknowledge the God of the Bible as the source of law. This would mean a pledge to disregard…