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Is Trump's rushed SCOTUS nominee, he reportedly only interviewed her, no one else, for lifetime SCOTUS seat, a culted, "Tulsi Gabbard, II"?

Barrett SCOTUS: as creepy as Tulsi Gabbard marrying twice inside her parents', "Chris Butler" cult?

  • I've seen enough, "the country I was brought up in has fell apart and died..."

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  • Let's give President Trump, nominee Judge Barrett, and Sen McConnell's caucus benefit of the doubt

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  • I'm with Trump, whatever he claims, decides, or wants to do, as POTUS

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Let's just rush this through, in time for Judge Barrett to be placed in RBG's seat for Trump to attempt to pull off a SCOTUS, Bush v. Gore, II !
After all, it's only an appointment that could conceivably materially affect how we all live for at least the next 35 years!

Background: (Nearly identical to that, "cult wise" of Tulsi Gabbard, both of her husbands, and the size of these two tiny sects... 2000 souls, or less)

Judge Amy's mommy was a "handmaid"!

Newsweek's recent, and CNN's reporting from today omits the following, and the recent NY Times reporting is suprisingly vague..:

Amy Coney Barrett's Catholic faith, People of Praise ties likely to gain scrutiny in Supreme Court confirmation
..and her longtime affiliation and reported membership in a small, little-known religious community known as the People of Praise.

Barrett grew up in the community. Her parents, Mike and Linda Coney, were local leaders of an organization similar to the People of Praise in her childhood, and Praise branch from its outset. Sean Connolly, a national spokesman for People of Praise, said the New Orleans area chapter was founded in 1987 and now counts 48 adult members.

Mike Coney, a retired Shell Oil attorney, is now a regional leader of the group, which has its roots around Notre Dame University, where Barrett graduated from law school and taught until 2017. A number of other families involved in People of Praise live along the same Old Metairie road as the Coneys, according to a 2006 piece in the group’s magazine, Vine & Branches, about how the New Orleans area branch, led at the time by Mike Coney, ...

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A leader of the People of Praise, Craig S. Lent, said that the group was not “nefarious or controversial,” but that its policy was not to confirm whether Ms. Barrett or anyone else was a member. Mr. Lent,.. said in interviews that the group was about building community and long-term friendships, and that members have a “wide spectrum” of political views.
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Current and former members of People of Praise said that Ms. Barrett and her husband, who have seven children, both belong to the group, and that their fathers have served as leaders. The community, founded in 1971, claims about 1,800 adult members in 22 locations in North America and the Caribbean.

The group believes in prophecy, speaking in tongues and divine healings, staples of Pentecostal churches that some Catholics have also adopted in a movement called charismatic renewal. The People of Praise was an early leader in the flowering of that movement in North America. It is ecumenical, but about 90 percent of its members are Catholic.

To fulfill the group’s communitarian vision, unmarried members are sometimes placed to live in homes with married couples and their children, ..
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Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise and the Role of Women, According to Former Members
BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 9/25/20

Former members of a self-described charismatic Christian community known as People of Praise have revealed details about the role of women within the group—of which potential Supreme Court justice pick Amy Coney Barrett is allegedly a member.
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mother of seven, 48-year-old Barrett and her husband, Jesse Barrett, are both reportedly members of People of Praise. The group does not publicly list its members and Barrett herself has never commented on the matter....


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People of Praise counts 1,700 members spread across 22 cities .., including South Bend, Indiana, .. The group's members make a "covenant," or "lifelong promise of love and service to fellow community members," according to its website, which distinguishes the commitment from an "oath" or "vow."
It recently dropped its use of the term "handmaids," ..
"We have chosen to rely on male leadership at the highest level of our community based on our desire to be a family of families," Connolly said. "We follow the New Testament teaching that the husband is the head of the family, ."
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Can't respond to your poll.

IMO every option is so colored with partisan bias that none can be chosen without also conceding the "negatives" attached are also true.

How about this suggestion? TRYING to post options that are simple and straightforward without "editorializing?"

That might help increase a diversity of member's participation. 🤷‍♂️

I want to vomit in reaction to what amounts to a Trump appointment intended to literally piss on the grave of a lioness in the advancement and defense of women and minority equal rights, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Simple enough for you?

You are projecting.... I'm not partisan, certainly not extreme, compared to the Trump cult-of-personality and it's Putin supported dismantling of the United States government and constitution. This judge and her husband are reportedly raised in this same, tiny, male-centric religious cult.
No problem, except she has no business being a life long SCOTUS appointee, none!

...MAY 12 2010...
Craig Lent had this to say about the Coneys: “Mike’s extensive pastoral experience and Linda’s years as principal handmaid for her branch make them well-qualified for this work. Mike recently retired from Shell Oil. They’re a wonderful couple with a great family—they’ll do a super job.”..

.... Her father Michael Coney worked as an attorney for Shell Oil Company, and her mother Linda was a high school French teacher.

Here is judge Amy's mother-in-law, Molly, an employee of this same cult.:

NOVEMBER 2 2016

"... Molly Barrett, who works at the South Bend branch office, says John was not only a good manager but a faithful brother in the Lord. “His parents were old friends of my parents, Gene and Jo Geissler. "

Here is Tulsi Gabbard's mother-in-law, who happens to be of the same cult as Tulsi, and employed by her, paid by US taxpayers...

What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe? | The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2017/11/06 › what-...


Nov 6, 2017 - When Tulsi Gabbard arrived at Lihue Airport, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, ... but it also refers to a spirit defined in state law as “the coordination of mind ... (Williams's mother, Anya Anthony, is Gabbard's office manager in ...
 
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I want to vomit in reaction to what amounts to a Trump appointment intended to literally piss on the grave of a lioness in the advancement and defense of women and minority equal rights, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Simple enough for you?

You are projecting.... I'm not partisan, certainly not extreme, compared to the Trump cult-of-personality and it's Putin supported dismantling of the United States government and constitution. This judge and her husband are reportedly raised in this same, tiny, male-centric religious cult.
No problem, except she has no business being a life long SCOTUS appointee, none!

...MAY 12 2010...
Craig Lent had this to say about the Coneys: “Mike’s extensive pastoral experience and Linda’s years as principal handmaid for her branch make them well-qualified for this work. Mike recently retired from Shell Oil. They’re a wonderful couple with a great family—they’ll do a super job.”..

.... Her father Michael Coney worked as an attorney for Shell Oil Company, and her mother Linda was a high school French teacher.

Here is judge Amy's mother-in-law, Molly, an employee of this same cult.:

NOVEMBER 2 2016

"... Molly Barrett, who works at the South Bend branch office, says John was not only a good manager but a faithful brother in the Lord. “His parents were old friends of my parents, Gene and Jo Geissler. "

Here is Tulsi Gabbard's mother-in-law, who happens to be of the same cult as Tulsi, and employed by her, paid by US taxpayers...
What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe? | The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2017/11/06 › what-...


Nov 6, 2017 - When Tulsi Gabbard arrived at Lihue Airport, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, ... but it also refers to a spirit defined in state law as “the coordination of mind ... (Williams's mother, Anya Anthony, is Gabbard's office manager in ...

...and Judge Barrett's husband's brother, Nathan Barrett.... same cult.: "Startin' 'em, young!"


".....

"Our goal for the school is to raise strong Christian young men and women who will build the kingdom of God," Joan says. "We want to start young, with four-year-olds, and go from there."

The school will open at 1434 Yale Avenue, a 2400-square-foot residence built by Action volunteers in 2006.

Nathan Barrett, the team leader and the longest-serving community member there, says that the idea for the school dates back to at least 2006, when the local CIM team agreed to send Joan to get a master's degree in school supervision."
 
...and Judge Barrett's husband's brother, Nathan Barrett.... same cult.: "Startin' 'em, young!"


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"Our goal for the school is to raise strong Christian young men and women who will build the kingdom of God," Joan says. "We want to start young, with four-year-olds, and go from there."

The school will open at 1434 Yale Avenue, a 2400-square-foot residence built by Action volunteers in 2006.

Nathan Barrett, the team leader and the longest-serving community member there, says that the idea for the school dates back to at least 2006, when the local CIM team agreed to send Joan to get a master's degree in school supervision."

If Obama was president and appointed someone to SCOTUS who was raised in a tiny, hyper-insulated muslim, male-centric cult and chose to marry, of all people, the son of a family also of the same tiny muslim cult, alarm bells would surely be ringing and right wing punditry and Foxnews would have already whipped these disturbing details into a feeding frenzy.

But when "devote christians" raise their children and keep to a tiny, secretive cult, of course, it is praiseworthy.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett lives in the U.S. and is free to worship as she pleases. This disgraced, impeached, anti-democracy president and his republican senate enablers and their Trump party supporters have no business imposing her and her parents' and her husband's parents' male-centric, religious extremist views on the rest of us for the next 35 years, especially considering their mantra in March, 2016, was "let the voters decide, in November!"
 
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Again, my objection is that Trump is nominating this judge purely to suit his own personal purpose, not in the interest of justice, of fairness, or
of the best interests of the majority of Americans. There are only 1,800 in the "People of Praise", male-centric religious cult. Not only is this judge a child of two members of this cult, her husband, his parents, and his grandmother are or were also members.

OPINION | ON THE BENCH

Why Amy Coney Barrett’s Religious Beliefs Aren’t Off Limits
Putting a member of a “covenant” community on the high court would raise a whole new set of questions about religion and the Constitution.

By MASSIMO FAGGIOLI
09/24/2020 04:30 AM EDT

Massimo Faggioli is a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. His books on the new Catholic communities have been published by Liturgical Press (2014) and Paulist Press (2016).

My comment: The cult is older than has previously been reported and it was founded for the purpose of secular outreach....

MARCH 10, 1972

.... Within the last couple of years, a "division of labor" has evolved whereby a group of Pentecostals felt moved to direct their apostolic endeavors toward the South Bend community. This group, the People of Praise, has been working with prayer groups in some of the local parishes. There has been no ideological conflict between the People of Prayer and True House. The People of Praise primarily direct their interest toward the South Bend community while Tru^ House is more concerned with the apostolate within the Notre Dame community...."

Judge Barrett is obviously not representative of anything close to mainstream, or even of extreme right wing America of 2020, or even of 1920.
If this was a cult inked to any other religion but christian, the pushback against the haste, hypocrisy, and extremely poor choice Trump is attempting to rush through senate approval with encouragement of McConnell, Romney,

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Temple garment: This recent Twitter photo shows Mitt Romney wearing an unbuttoned white shirt with his Mormon underwear clearly visible underneath

and of Putin, would swiftly end this anachronistic, travesty.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett's mother-in-law, Molly Geissler Barrett, quoted above, an employee of People of Praise cult in South Bend, was the daughter of Jo Geissler, also a member of this same cult. Her mother, Josephine "Jo" Geissler, was the mother of 16....

FEBRUARY 2 2012

... “I was Abbie’s head when she was housebound because of health problems, so I asked her how I could serve her. She didn’t want things for herself. She wanted me to visit Ethel Chalk at Providence House, because Abbie herself couldn’t go. And she was very concerned that no one in Jo Geissler’s women’s group was able to visit her, so she asked me to go instead. (No matter that we were having a severe snowstorm!) I felt privileged to be an extension of this marvelous woman in Christ.” ...

Jesse, of course, is the Trump SCOTUS nominee's husband:

"Eugene “Gene” Geissler, 99, died peacefully at his home in Granger, IN on the morning of August 5, 2012, .... He met his beloved wife Josephine “Jo” Hirsch in 1941 in Jefferson City, MO. They married in 1942 and were soon blessed with Jo’s first pregnancy. .... Together they had 16 children: ...
... Molly Barrett (South Bend, IN) ... He also leaves to mourn his loss 37 grandchildren .... Jesse,"
 
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Arranged marriage or of her own volition, the fact is Trump has nominated to a SCOTUS seat, just 37 days before the election , a woman who was raised in an obscure, extreme right religious cult, "People for Praise", and the she doubled down by marrying into an equally culted family.

We can do better, we deserve better. Even some extreme right US senators should want more for their daughters than reducing them to "breeders" under their husband's dominion.

A thorough background check might have disqualified Judge Amy Vivian Coney Barrett from security clearance routinely required of defense plant production workers....

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It is a encouraging surprise to assume. from their silence, that supporters of Trumps nomination of this judge, Trump's latest middle finger at majority rule and our system of laws and federal government checks and balances as he attempts to pull U.S. society at least back to circa 1950, includes such remarkable religious tolerance.
IOW, by their silence, it seems not to matter if Trump had nominated a person raised in the muslim faith who had been indoctrinated in such a religiously extremist, secretive fundamentalist sect, and then validated the choices and values of her parents by marrying into a family even more associated with that same, tiny, extremist religious sect. Alhamdulillah ! Thank you all, again, for indicating all here agree we are all blessed descendants of Abrahamic God

And, "go from there...." Taking the long veiw, like Trump & Mitch do. LOL !:
"Our goal for the school is to raise strong Christian young men and women who will build the kingdom of God," Joan says. "We want to start young, with four-year-olds, and go from there."

The school will open at 1434 Yale Avenue, a 2400-square-foot residence built by Action volunteers in 2006.

Nathan Barrett, the team leader and the longest-serving community member there, says that the idea for the school dates back to at least 2006, when the local CIM team agreed to send Joan to get a master's degree in school supervision."
 
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