The Ron Paul campaign announced the endorsement of Rev. Phillip Kayser of Dominion Covenant Church in Omaha, Nebraska this week. Warren Throckmorton documents that Kayzer is a theocrat who wants to impose Biblical death penalties on gay people and adulterers. The article on the Paul campaign site appears to have been deleted now, but here’s …
Category Archive: Dominionism
Dec 20 2011
Fischer Wants Adultery, Fornication Made Illegal
Bryan Fischer continues to advocate turning the United States into a theocracy when he argues that adultery and fornication should be against the law because the Bible says so. Right Wing Watch reports:
Nov 22 2011
Santorum’s Plan for Christian Sharia
Right Wing Watch reports more crazy statements from Rick Santorum at the Republican wingnut debate over the weekend, like this one where he calls for all civil laws to be in line with Biblical law — but that’s totally different from Islam and Sharia.
Nov 18 2011
Bachmann’s Dominionist Endorser
Right Wing Watch reports on George Grant, a Christian Reconstructionist author who recently endorsed the candidacy of Michele Bachmann. Here’s the video of that endorsement:
Oct 19 2011
Fischer Wants to Impose Biblical Law
The next time someone claims that the left is inventing this crazy idea that many on the religious right seek to impose a theocracy on America, we need merely remind them of the existence of Bryan Fischer. He makes no bones about wanting to impose Biblical law:
Oct 17 2011
Barber: No Dominionism, Just Taking Over the Government
The endlessly ridiculous Matt Barber says that those who are critical of the religious right’s dominionist tendencies are inventing it out of thin air — they have no intention of taking dominion over the country, they just want to take over the government:
Oct 13 2011
Ugandan Minister to Speak in NYC
Given all of the anti-gay madness going on in Uganda, it’s refreshing to see a minister in that country stand up for human rights and against the insane theocrats who run that country. A Unitarian minister from that country will be speaking in New York City this Sunday, October 16 (my birthday, coincidentally). Here is …
Oct 04 2011
Maggie Gallagher Gives Up the Game
Arch-bigot Maggie Gallagher likes to say that her opposition to same-sex marriage is just a pragmatic, principled opposition rather than a desire to impose her religious views. Except she kind of gave away the truth recently when asked about Michele Bachmann’s theocratic tendencies: Mattera: “They think it’s some sort of weird conspiracy that [Michele Bachmann's] …
Oct 01 2011
Turek on Theocracy
As Right Wing Watch notes, Frank Turek — the Christian motivational speaker who keeps getting fired by companies for his anti-gay activities — argues that Christians don’t want theocracy, they just want the government to enforce Biblical moral laws on people who don’t believe in them. Because that’s totally different from theocracy.
Sep 30 2011
Roy Moore’s Religious Bigotry
Wingnut extraordinaire Judge Roy Moore may be even more crazy than I originally thought. From the ReligionLaw listserv comes this story from Prof. Paul Finkelman: When I was the main expert in the Ten Commandments monument case in Alabama (Glassroth v. Moore), Chief Justice Roy Moore said that the Ten Commandments monument could not offend …
Sep 13 2011
Reconstructionists Warn Against Dominionists
This is one of the weirder arguments you’ll ever see. Gary DeMar’s Reconstructionist group American Vision is speaking out against the New Apostalic Reformation and the Seven Nations dominionists, saying those people are the real theocrats. Right Wing Watch has the details. Yesterday Joel McDurmon, the Director of Research for American Vision, posted a piece …
Sep 07 2011
Reconstructionism and the State
Warren Throckmorton, a Christian psychology professor, has been doing some really outstanding writing lately about dominionism and Reconstructionism. In this post he shows what the Reconstructionists would do if they had political power in this country. And it isn’t pretty. When we say that they would institute the Old Testament law as the civil and …
Sep 06 2011
Dominionism, Pentecostals and Reconstructionism, Part Two
Religion Dispatches has two interesting articles about dominionism, Pentecostalism and Reconstructionism. The first is a conversation between Sarah Posner and Anthea Butler, a religious studies professor at UPenn. They try to find a scholarly approach to the subject, something that recognizes the distinctions between the various groups under discussion and debunks the current religious right …
Sep 05 2011
Berlet on Dominionism and Reconstructionism
Chip Berlet has a very useful article looking at the use of the term “dominionism” and its relationship to Reconstructionism and other ideological views within the broader umbrella of the Christian right in America. I have minor quibbles with a few things in it, but it’s a good overview of the taxonomy of those terms …
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