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Around the world there are several nationwith brutally authoritarian governments that embrace the concept of imposing religion to play a major roleof public life. It is what is known as theocracy and evangelical fanatics are a step closer to imposing their extremist vision of social conservatism on every aspect of all Americans’ daily life.

Those theocratic religious regimes include the likes of the Taliban, ISIS, Iran’s Supreme Council, andSaudi Arabia’sWahhabist Sunnis. If Trump’religious extremist nominated to define the law of the land over the next generation is confirmed next week, Americans will know firsthand what it’s like to live under a harsh evangelical theocracy. What many observers label America’s Taliban.

It is a terrifying prospect that Republicans are very excited about because they will beable to enforce biblically-approved domination over American women and members of the LGBTQ community under the auspices of the United States Federal government.

To say that Amy Coney Barrett’s judicial record is lacking is a gross understatement.The sum total of her experience as a jurist is barely three years and yet Trump tapped her for a lifetime appointment on the nation’s highest court for one simple reason and it is not solely because she is an Antonin Scalia conservative; it is because she is aextreme social conservative and rabidreligious right cultist who spent her entire life being trained to believe that it is an atrocity that religion is not a major force in every Americans’ public life. 

Barrett claims to be a Catholic; likely why she embraces the 1968 Papal edict that any unnatural form of birth control is a mortal sin. However, the group Barrett subscribes to is considered “the lunatic fringe of the Catholic faith” and more in line with far right extremists in the evangelical movement Republicans are intent on allowing free rein over the American people– especially women.

According to a 2017 article by the New York Times’ Laurie Goodstein, Barrett’s religious group, People of Praise, is considered a “cult” to most Catholics and more akin to freakish fundamental  Pentecostals –  “Holy Rollers.” Ms. Goodstein writes:

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People of Praise incorporates elements of fundamentalist Pentecostal Protestantism (such as speaking in tongues) and is considered a cult in mainstream Catholicism. Its practices include requiring members to swear an oath of loyalty to the group and teaching that wives must be submissive to their husbands, and in the past, People of Praise called its female leaders “handmaidens”—which is downright chilling if one is familiar with Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” People of Praise embrace a highly patriarchal ideology, believing that women ultimately must submit to male authority. read more