Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism.

Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, who wrote the concurring opinion in last week’s explosive Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos have the same rights as living children, recently appeared on a show hosted by self-anointed “prophet” and QAnon conspiracy theorist.

Parker was the featured guest on “Someone You Should Know,” hosted by Johnny Enlow, a Christian nationalist influencer and devoted supporter of former President Donald Trump. Over the course of an 11-minute interview, Parker articulated a theocratic worldview at odds with a functioning, pluralistic society.

“God created government,” he told Enlow, adding that it’s “heartbreaking” that “we have let it go into the possession of others.”

  • @Got_Bent
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    1410 months ago

    Christianity as a governing body has pretty much always been oppressive and against anything progressive.

    Then you take your puritans, who were so far off the horizon of extremities that even established Christian governments in Europe were all like, “dude, you guys are cray-cray,” dump them on the shores of an entirely new continent populated by brown people who don’t speak Jesus, sprinkle in a bunch of beer and guns, add some African slaves, and you’ve got the foundation of the land of the free