What you’re about to see is seriously sick. I expect this to get around the internet sooner rather than later, unless we’ve just become so jaded that this kind of open air insane asylum behavior is considered normal. Heaven help us if it’s considered harmless. Pastor Zoe Warren recently had a “re-covenanting ceremony” in Virginia and Governor Glenn Youngkin issued a proclamation honoring these people. Either Youngkin didn’t know who they were or what they were saying, or his judgement is now questionable, to say the least.
The re-covenanting is a form of remarriage, which in Warren’s terminology is getting God and the State to be one, totally in violation of the Constitution. And the idea of “remarriage’ is unusual, because the separation of Church and State has always been fundamental in this country.
The violent imagery of this man’s rhetoric is anything but Christian. This is sick.
Right-wing activist Zoe Warren repented on behalf of "government" at the "re-covenanting ceremony," declaring that this nation has become so wicked that "we deserve for our women to be raped and our children to be ripped apart.” https://t.co/BjHHnSQShS https://t.co/ELOfq7L0HF pic.twitter.com/QZdfDArZQO
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 27, 2023
People are appalled.
There is nothing Christian about any of this. Christianity is primarily a religion of love, tolerance, and inclusivity. The bedrock of the religion is that we are all children of a loving God. There is nothing loving or Godlike in what this man has to say. This is Old Testament fire and brimstone, a God of vengeance. This message is the antithesis of Christianity.
Who is “youngkin”? Another republiCLOWN pervert masquerading as a “governor”?
Shouldn’t Glenn be grooming a 15 year old girl for the preacher?
Your statement that Youngkin’s judgement is now questionable is rather off the mark. He was never the bland, boring “hard core conservative” he made himself out to be in order to sucker enough Virgina voters into electing him. He’s ALWAYS been exactly this kind of extremist P.O.S. This is simply yet another example of him revealing what he is and always has been. I still say since in VA Governors can’t run for re-election, at least without waiting for four years after their initial stint of four years is complete he’s got his eye on a WH run. This type of thing is something that will help him gain favor with Evangelical Leaders and in turn the increasingly emboldened Evangelical base who are using their “victory” in getting Roe overturned and ever more draconian abortion bans to turn the United States into a “ChrisTaliban” country.
IANAL but isn’t there a clause in the constitution stating there shall be no government established religion? Our great Texas governor and legislature are trying something very similar.
In addition to the First Amendment, there is also Article VI, Clause 3 which states: “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” (Emphasis added) Not to mention the letters and other writings of our founders which were quite clear on the point that there should be a strong line of separation between church and state.
I’ve said it lots of times before and I’ll say it again: With the exception of Vatican City (the smallest country in the world both in size and population but it IS an actual country with full U.N. membership) show me any country in the world that is either run by actual religious clerics directly or whom a “civilian” government must get approval for any actions from that is NOT a sh!thole.
Jesus reportedly warned that false prophets would come and many would be led astray. The two greatest commandments, recorded in the New Testament, begin with the call to LOVE. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Jesus also reportedly called the Devil the father of all lies. Time to start calling them what they are, i.e., Satan worshipers. Hey, I didn’t write the book, I’m just reporting on the facts. Tic tok hypocrites. Judgement is coming soon.
Denis, VA’s governorship term is for 6 years, and we found about Youngkin during his campaign—-and he has proven (and continues to prove) what kind of politician he is. Right now, VA has a sizable surplus which Youngkin wants to “give back” in tax rebates and that kind of thing. The legislature (and I expect most of the voting public) wants it to go primarily to education (to bring it back up to where it is supposed to be) and, then, other public concerns.
This year, ALL VA state seats—-both houses—-are up for election. Unfortunately, the top 3 (gov., lt. gov., SOS) are not, but everything else is. Pick an area of the state you’d like to help, and donate a few bucks, if you can, to a Democrat!
Please cite a source r.e. any change in the length of a term of a Governor of Virginia. It’s been four years for over 150 years. I got stationed there in the 1980s and because I met and married a Virginia gal became a resident when I left active duty. I wound up living in VA almost 20 years and when I left it was for the eastern panhandle of WV just over the state line and news came from DC stations. (I now live in another neighboring state – NC) So, I became familiar with Virginia politics a long, long time ago and even after moving out of the state have kept an eye on things back there as at times I’ve considered moving back. I recall five years or so ago there was some talk of changing the provision that prevents the Governor from serving consecutive terms but nothing changed. A quick check after reading your comment indicates not only did that change NOT happen, but that the term of a Virginia Gov. is still four years. Hey, I could be wrong – a change might have been made and I missed it. But I’d like to see sourcing on your claim because Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and other sources say it’s still just four years, and that VA Governers have to wait at least one term before running for the office again. Oh, and in all that history only two individuals have pulled off that particular feat. One more reason Terry McCauliffe should have stayed the hell out of things. You did make a notable point about Virginia being one of those states that has “off year” elections – holding statewide elections in odd numbered years. As in other states that do it, it’s a conservative trick to help them keep control because history showed conservatives (the more conservative the more this is true) show up to vote in non-Presidential election years and this is even more true in all general elections that aren’t national in scope. It’s only relatively recently Democrats have woken up to this fact and started getting organized to get voters out in EVERY election instead of only making a big push in Presidential election years.
You are exactly right about the off year elections. The open primary thing is another tool. Republicans vote in Democratic primaries by simply requesting a Democratic ballot when they show up to vote. Right now we, MS have a black man that is being pushed by the most fascist Republican to run in the Democratic primary. The black guy has been a tool of the right before and the Democratic party here is fighting him being on the ticket. They probably won’t be able to stop him because they were using a rule that was not applied to any other Democrats.
This man is a Xian pastor? Christ preached love and peace. This disgusting degenerate is a total disgrace and a stain on human dignity. Youngkin should be impeached for supporting such madness.
Has anyone besides me noticed the pronouns in the sentence “WE deserve to have OUR women raped and OUR children ripped apart.” Look, dude, raping “your” women and ripping apart “your” choldren doesn’t hurt YOU. If YOU deserve vengeance, YOU deserve it happeniung to YOURSELVES.
My apologies, Denis—-you are correct, the governor’s term IS only for 4 years. Someone I trusted told me when we first moved here that it was 6 years, and I never questioned or noticed the mistake. (As a mitigating factor, I was busy with the usual—-hubby, kids, home, job, etc.—-and it seemed that I was always surprised when Election Day came around….and EVERY year!)
Virginia’s politics were sometimes pretty weird for me to comprehend during the almost two decades I lived there. Of course, being from southern Illinois I know way more than I want to about political corruption and the ability of legislators and Governors to steal one (or more) part of the state blind. Being in my mid 60s now I grew up in an era where the Daley machine in Chicago ruled the state. One of the weird things in VA was that rather than the actual economic engine of northern VA (the DC suburbs for those of you who don’t know) that paid most of the taxes and also the Norfolk area with that huge Naval base that also brought in boatloads of money had relatively little influence in Richmond. Instead, the folks from all those rural counties called the shots and got an outsized share of the money for roads/bridges and other public works stuff while we sat in increasingly long traffic jams on inadequate roads. And compared to Maryland little Metro service too although a Democratic gadfly in Fairfax County made it her life’s work to ensure both I-66 and Metro got as little state support as possible – and that I-66 would be forced to deal with inadequate space to add lanes! I’d tell family and friends back home I couldn’t win. I spent my first 26 years in the rural/small town type of place that got screwed by state politicians that were controlled by Chicago, and now that I was the one in the metro area with the lion’s share of the pupulation and money I was still getting screwed because the rural/small town legislators had all the control! Go figure.
At least Virginia wasn’t the corrupt mess Illinois was. Hell, in Illinois during my lifetime being Governor is just a way-station on the road to prison!
There was actually a lot to like about Virginia, especially as it become purple and trending blue after I left. It could be annoying at times. My ex-wife was a Virginia gal although she grew up on the NC border and her family considered themselves more Carolinian than Virginian. Except when it came to history and the whole “birthplace of Presidents” nonsense. And she went to James Madison University and is an unabashed member of the “JMU Mafie” which if you’re not familiar with you will learn about. There’s no better institution of higher learning or a better place to go/send your kids to school than JMU. Just ask them and they will forever bore you to tears with how great the place is. I mean, it’s a good school and the setting in the Shenandoah Valley is nice but come on!
Anyway, I hope Youngkin was a wake-up call to voters there that despite the talk of Virginia having become a blue state it’s still actually purple and without serious vigilance and hard work to get out the vote could turn red again.