• @Absaroka
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      710 hours ago

      Robert P. George, professor, Princeton University

      Feels like something Princeton students should dig into.

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        Here, I’ll help get the ball rolling:

        George twice served as Governor of the West Virginia Democratic Youth Conference, and attended the 1976 Democratic National Convention as an alternate delegate. He moved to the right in the 1980s, largely due to his views on abortion,[4] and left the Democratic Party as a result of what he saw as its increasingly strong commitment to legal abortion and its public funding, and his growing skepticism about the effectiveness of large scale government-run social welfare projects in Appalachia and other low income rural and urban areas.

        In 2009, George founded the American Principles Project,[21] which aimed to create a grass-roots movement around his ideas.[4] He is a past chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, an advocacy group opposed to same-sex marriage,[4] and co-founder of the Renewal Forum, an organization that seeks to end sex trafficking and commercial exploitation of women and children.[22]

        George was one of the drafters of the 2009 Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto signed by Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical leaders that “promised resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same-sex marriage.”[4] He has also joined with Muslim scholar Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in urging hotel chains and other businesses to refrain from offering or promoting pornography.[23] He has worked closely with his former student Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and with the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of Great Britain to combat anti-Semitism. Much of George’s work on religious liberty has centered on the idea that religion is a “distinct human good”, which he asserts allows people to “live authentically by ordering one’s life in line with one’s best judgments of conscience.”[24]

        George endorsed U.S. Senator Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries.[27] In his own words, he “fiercely opposed” the candidacy of Donald Trump, saying that he was “a person of poor character.” In July 2017, after Trump had become president, George praised his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. However, he characterized his attempts to restrict immigration to the United States from certain countries as “unnecessary and therefore unjust.” He went on to say, “One thing you have to say for President Trump is that he has been fortunate in his enemies. Although he gives them plenty to legitimately criticize him about, they always go overboard and thus discredit themselves with the very people who elected Mr. Trump and may well re-elect him.”[28]

        No mention of the Heritage Foundation until the end:

        He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, receiving during his tenure there the Justice Tom C. Clark Award.[29] He has served as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), of which he remains a corresponding member.[29] He is a member of the boards of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (where he is Vice-Chairman of the Board),[30] the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty,[31] the National Center on Sexual Exploitation,[32] the Center for Individual Rights, The Heritage Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation,[33] and the Academic Freedom Alliance,[34] which he co-founded in 2021. He is also a past member of the board of the American Enterprise Institute[35] and the Templeton Foundation Religion Trust.[citation needed]

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        He is quite the gem. /s

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        All the way back to the 2016 elections with Cambridge Analytica. Plus his offspring is equally vile. Some families are just cancer in human form, and the Mercers are a shining example