This fucker, Adrian Vermeule, is also an advocate for Catholic integralism, essentially a type of #NewApostolicReformation.
His “common good constitutionalism” basically says “meh, freedom” as long as he & people like him think the *common good* is served by application of the law.
Aus dem "Über mich" meiner Homepage, ganz frisch getextet:
Ein zunehmend wichtiger werdendes Thema für mich ist die Auseinandersetzung mit den Lehren der New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), einer vor allem in den USA und Lateinamerika verbreiteten neocharismatischen Irrlehre, die auch in Deutschland Einfluss zu gewinnen versucht. In den USA, wo sie rund 35 Millionen Anhänger*innen gewinnen konnte, hat sie mit der zweiten Präsidentschaft D. Trumps einen wichtigen Sieg errungen und versucht nun, dort eine „neue apostolische Reformation“ in Gang zu setzen, in der die Trennung von Staat und dem Glauben der NAR und damit das fundamentale Prinzip der Trennung von Staat und Kirche aufgehoben wird. Erreicht die NAR ihr Ziel, werden die USA ein misogyner, queerfeindlicher, antisozialer Gottesstaat sein, in dem soziale Fürsorge, Klimaschutz usw. keine Rolle mehr spielen, während ein „Geistlicher Krieg“ gegen vermeintliche „Diener Satans“ (allen voran trans*, queere und woke Personen) geführt wird, um Satan die Herrschaft über die USA und schließlich die Erde zu entreißen, die dieser angeblich besitzen soll.
Als junge Christin in den 1980ern, so um 1987/88, hatte ich selbst mit der New Apostolic Reformation #NAR zu tun. Es schwappte damals in die charismatische Bewegung. Ich war noch jung und unerfahren und theologisch nicht gut gebildet - und war von manchen der Lehren fasziniert.
Zum Glück bin ich recht bald wieder abgesprungen.
“Since court rulings are not laws & only legislatures elected by the people may pass laws, #Obergefell is an illegitimate overreach,” the resolution reads. It continues: “The Idaho Legislature calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse Obergefell & restore the *natural* definition of #marriage, a union of one man & one woman” [tell that to the Mormons]
That has not deterred lawmakers in #Idaho, however. This week, a State House cmte overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on #SCOTUS to undo #ObergefellVHodges, the landmark 2015 decision that gave same-sex couples the right to marry….
The resolution would still need approval by the full House & the ID Senate before any request could be sent to #SCOTUS. Both chambers in ID are controlled by #Republicans.
#Idaho Lawmakers Want #SCOTUS to Overturn #SameSexMarriage Decision
A state legislative cmte has advanced a resolution asking that the power to regulate #marriage be returned to states.
Since 1793, when the #US #SupremeCourt declined a request by Pres George Washington to offer #legal guidance on foreign relations, the court’s justices have steered away from weighing in outside the context of a formal lawsuit.
#law #ActivistCourt #LGBTQ #Obergefell #NAR #Republicans
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/idaho-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The closely watched case tests how far #SCOTUS is willing to go in a…steady expansion in the use of tax dollars to support parochial #education & a push by the #SupremeCourt in recent terms to enlarge #religion’s role in the public sphere.
The court has already allowed #government #funding of vouchers for #religious private #schools. Backers say allowing funding for religious charter schools, which parents also opt into, is the *logical* next step.
#SCOTUS to weigh whether states can allow #religious #PublicSchools
The #US #SupremeCourt agreed Friday to consider whether the state of #Oklahoma may fund a proposed #Catholic charter school, a blockbuster case that could redraw the line between #ChurchAndState by allowing #government to establish & directly #fund religious schools for the first time.
#education #law #ActivistCourt #NewApostolicReformation #NAR #ffrf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/01/24/supreme-court-public-religious-charter-school/
JFC
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
For the record:
aka "Glory Hallelujah" the song links the Union with God's vengeance at the Day of Judgment (through allusions to biblical passages such as Isaiah 63:1–6, Revelation 19 and Revelation 14:14–19). [via wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic?wprov=sfti1#]
On the thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election,
an obscure but telling celebration unfolded inside a converted barn off a highway
stretching through the cornfields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
The place was called "Gateway House of Prayer",
and it was not exactly a church,
and did not exactly fit into the paradigms of what American Christianity has typically been.
Inside, there were no hymnals, no images of Jesus Christ, no parables fixed in stained glass.
Strings of lights hung from the rafters.
A huge map of the world covered one wall.
On the others were seven framed bulletin boards,
each representing a theater of battle between the forces of God and Satan
—government, business, education, family, arts, media, and religion itself.
Gateway House of Prayer, it turned out,
was a kind of war room.
And if its patrons are to be believed, at least one person, and at peak times dozens,
had been praying every single minute of every single day for more than 15 years
for the victory that now seemed at hand.
God was winning.
The Kingdom was coming.
“Hallelujah!” said a woman arriving for the weekly 7 o’clock
“government watch,”
during which a group of 20 or so volunteers sits in a circle and prays for God’s dominion over the nation.
“Now the work begins!” a man said.
“We have to fight, fight, fight!”
a grandmother said as they began talking about how a crowd at Trump’s election watch party had launched into the hymn
“How Great Thou Art.”
“They were singing that!” another man said.
Yes, people replied;
they had seen a video of the moment.
As the mood in the barn became ever more jubilant,
the grandmother pulled from her purse a #shofar,
a hollowed-out ram’s horn used during Jewish services.
She blew, understanding that the sound would break through the atmosphere,
penetrate the demonic realm,
and scatter the forces of Satan,
a supernatural strike for the Kingdom of God.
A woman fell to the floor.
“Heaven and Earth are coming into alignment!” a man declared.
“The will of heaven is being done on Earth.”
What was happening in the barn in Lancaster County did not represent some fringe of American Christianity,
but rather what much of the faith is becoming.
A shift is under way, one that scholars have been tracking for years
and that has become startlingly visible with the rise of Trumpism.
At this point, tens of millions of believers
—about 40 percent of American Christians,
including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey
—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement
that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy.
It is mystical, emotional, and, in its way, wildly utopian.
It is transnational, multiracial, and unapologetically political.
Early leaders called it the 
"New Apostolic Reformation", or #NAR,
although some of those same leaders are now engaged in a rebranding effort
as the antidemocratic character of the movement has come to light.
And people who have never heard the name are nonetheless adopting the movement’s central ideas.
These include the belief that God speaks through modern-day apostles and prophets.
That demonic forces can control not only individuals,
but entire territories and institutions.
That the Church is not so much a place
as an active “army of God,”
one with a holy mission to claim the Earth for the Kingdom
as humanity barrels ever deeper into the End Times.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/
„Das große Abendmahl“ in Dortmund - EZW
Klingt sehr nach #NAR Neue Apostolische Reformation.
Ich teile die Kritik.
https://www.ezw-berlin.de/aktuelles/artikel/das-grosse-abendmahl-in-dortmund/
Ein recht großer Teil der weißen Evangelikalen und Pfingstler*innen (und vor allem der Männer) in den USA mag mit der Theologie der #NAR Probleme haben - aber nicht mit ihren politischen Ansichten. Die sind oft deckungsgleich.
Ganz anders die Schwarzen Evangelikalen und Pfingstler*innen in den USA - sie lehnen die politischen Überzeugungen der NAR und damit diese Bewegung oft ab.
Auch sonst: Weiße Mainline-Protestanten oder Katholiken in den USA stimmen häufiger mit den politischen Ansichten der NAR überein.
In den USA ist die NAR also eher von Weißen geprägt, danach kommen hispanische Christ*innen. Am wenigsten finden sich Schwarze und Asiatisch-stämmige Christ*innen in der NAR.
In anderen Ländern sieht das anders aus, so in einigen Ländern Subsahara-Afrikas. Hier sind es gerade auch die politischen Ansichten der NAR zum Thema LGBTIQA+, die auf Zustimmung stoßen. Außerdem fließt viel Geld aus US-amerikanischen NAR-Kirchen und Organisationen in Kirchen und Gemeinden, wenn diese dafür im Sinne der NAR lehren.
The followers of the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, believe President-elect Donald Trump is fighting a spiritual war against demonic forces within the U.S..
Trump himself stated in his acceptance speech on Nov. 6, 2024, that the reason that “God spared my life” was to “restore America to greatness.”
https://theconversation.com/new-apostolic-reformation-evangelicals-see-trump-as-gods-warrior-in-their-battle-to-win-america-from-satanic-forces-and-christianize-it-243002
#religion #politics #NAR
Die #NAR Neue Apostolische Reformation (nicht zu verwechseln mit der Neuapostolischen Kirche) ist weltweit die am schnellsten wachsende christliche Bewegung. In den USA gehören schätzungsweise 35 Millionen Menschen verschiedener Konfessionen dieser postcharismatischen/postevangelikalen Bewegung an, die dafür kämpft, dass ihre Variante des christlichen Glaubens maßgeblich Politik, Gesellschaft, Erziehung, Familien, Medien und Kirchen usw. bestimmt (Seven Mountains Strategy, Dominionism). Auch in Lateinamerika ist der Einfluss der NAR stark.
In Deutschland hat die NAR noch nicht so viel Einfluss, aber es wird mehr - in Verbindung mit einer anderen Bewegung, dem katholischen Integralismus, der ähnliche Ziele verfolgt (in den USA zählt det künftige Vize-Präsident Vance dazu).
Sie wollen auch hierzulande einflussreiche Positionen in Politik (Union), Medien, Kultur, Erziehung usw. besetzen. Eines der größten Feindbilder sind trans* Personen, die als "Agenten Satans" gelten, die angeblich Gottes Werk ("Gott schuf den Menschen als Mann und Frau") vernichten wollen.
Via #Salon @ 6:03am EDT on Oct 20, 2024
Fighting demons: The #NewApostolicReformation is waging a #HolyWar against #democracy
If you want to know more about the New Apostolic Reformation, which played a central role in Jan6, Matt Taylor is the key scholar to read.
"The significance of Vance’s appearance at event hosted by far-right Christian nationalist"
…Ever since the #Jan6 #insurrection, #Wallnau has preached that #Trump is God’s chosen candidate & that an electoral loss would have to result from the works of forces of evil—& therefore all Trump’s enemies should be treated as agents of the devil.
#BatShitCrazy
#NewApostolicReformation #NAR #MAGA #extremism #radicalization #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
…The campaign stop was part of the “Courage Tour,” a series of multiday #religious revivals organized by #Wallnau meant to electrify the #evangelical vote in swing states. At these weekend events, Pentecostal worship & reactionary #politics intermingle: There’s plenty of praise-singing, faith healing, & speaking in tongues.
#NewApostolicReformation #NAR #MAGA #extremism #radicalization #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
#JDVance’s willingness to campaign w/ #Wallnau—who preaches that #Trump is prophesied by God to be president so that Christians can take over American government & society—did not go unnoticed by the press. It was, many analysts concluded, an indicator of #Vance’s growing ties to #ChristianNationalism.
#NewApostolicReformation #NAR #MAGA #extremism #radicalization #weird #insane #Nonsense
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/28/jd-vance-christian-nationalism-lance-wallnau/
