Kandiss Taylor #fundie

Kandiss Taylor #fundie rightwingwatch.org

During the most recent episode of her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” program, which airs on the network owned by virulently antisemitic conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, Christian nationalist GOP activist Kandiss Taylor claimed that the Christian church is supposed to be running the government and therefore non-Christians are not entitled to freedom of religion.

Taylor is flat-earth conspiracy theorist who unsuccessfully ran for governor of Georgia in 2022 and despite her paltry showing in the Republican primary, she steadfastly refused to accept that she had lost. In 2023, Taylor became a Georgia GOP district chair and started voicing increasingly radical views, even going so far as to call for the public execution of those who oppose her Christian nationalist worldview.

Those radical views were on display during her recent program as she insisted that the Constitution was founded on common law and that common law is rooted in the Bible, meaning that the United States “was founded on Jesus Christ.”

“The idea behind the whole document was that the church runs the state,” Taylor asserted. “The church is we the people. We are the church … and so we run the state. But the state, the government, has no control over the church.”

“And everybody is like, ‘Then you gotta let Satanists come in and you gotta let witches come in, and you’ve gotta let Muslims and Hindus,'” she continued. “No. No, we don’t. No, we don’t because America is founded on God almighty, Creator God, Yahweh, Elohim. That is what we’re founded on and I don’t have to honor your religion. I don’t have to give you freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is there for us to worship Jesus. It’s not for you to come force anything else upon me.”

“So we have that all wrong,” Taylor declared. “We’ve had tolerance. We’ve been politically correct. And at what point are we going to say, ‘No, we’re not going to be’? You can do whatever you want to the comfort of your home. You can do whatever you want to, but don’t come into my government and bring any of that trash in there.”

“We shouldn’t be electing anyone in government—local, state or federal—that is not a Christian,” Taylor concluded.

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Sure, why should we pay any attention to the COTUS, especially that nit-picky clause that says no religious test shall be used for any government position.

Freedom of religion does not force anything on you. It means you can’t force your beliefs on everyone, or anyone, else. Just out of curiosity, which of the 3000+ “True Christian Religion” version do you support?

I bet you use the KJV, Karen. Where that comes from: the Church of England. What they’ve said in recent years: that ‘Conversion Therapy’ was wrong. The leader of a previous government and of the Conservative and Unionist Party: Unionist, as in the DUP that are as fundie as they come, they say that Creationists who say the Earth being 6,000 years old are hellbound heretics as they say the Earth is just 4,000 years old. They’re as ultra-KJV onlyists as it’s possible to be as they’re staunchly Protestants. Anyway, said previous Conservative government’s leader and Prime Minister said she wanted to make ‘Conversion Therapy’ illegal. Theresa May Not’s wish is about to become reality due to the new government who runs the state which has as the state religion the Church of England. Oh, you can bet that President Kamala Harris will let in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer - via a state visit to the US - who has that power to make ‘Conversion Therapy’ illegal in his state, which will make you seethe:

Britain.

PM Starmer - who has that power to ensure your ‘God’ isn’t entitled to have opinions in my country - Is an Atheist. The power he has over the UK’s Armed Forces.

Bring it.

The power he has via the Power of the People. Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

In not only Soviet Britain, God isn’t elected by you.

How can anyone elect that which never existed in the first place, Karen? At least George Galloway‘s no-show at the electoral announcement was due to he being a salty bitch at being denied his right to a seat - Rochdale - he’d just won in a by-election just four months previously.

You’re exactly like him, Karen: Catty.

You try to make the U.S. government Christian, you're just begging for non-stop fighting over different flavors of Christianity.

“We shouldn’t be electing anyone in government—local, state or federal—that is not a Christian,” Taylor concluded.

…Alrighty then, which version of Christianity then, hmmm? Catholicism? Protestants? And if so, which subvariant and how extremist and such must they be?

Didn’t think this through, did you?

KT: “‘Which version of Christianity?’??? TRUE Christianity!! The Christianity I go by!!! That ought to go without SAYING!!!”

“I want to turn the USA into the Christian version of Iran and Afghanistan!”

Yeah, it’s a winning move - for the Democratic opposing candidate (or even during the GOP primaries).

“And everybody is like, ‘Then you gotta let Satanists come in and you gotta let witches come in, and you’ve gotta let Muslims and Hindus,'” she continued. “No. No, we don’t. No

I guess she’s not a believer in…

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Jesus, Guns, and Babies

One of these things is not like the others…

“The idea behind the whole document was that the church runs the state,” Taylor asserted. “The church is we the people. We are the church … and so we run the state. But the state, the government, has no control over the church.”

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State.”

Now tell me how “a wall of separation between church and State” means “the church runs the state”! That’s some “sovereign citizen” level of law misunderstanding right there, dare I say. (yeah, sure, the phrase “wall of separation” was never in the Constitution, but given that’s it’s Thomas Jefferson who said that, I’m thinking he knew what he was talking about, ya know?)