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Handmaids of Bigotry

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Well, they dusted off those colorful “Handmaid’s Tale” outfits that were so visible at Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018.

Even before Amy Coney Barrett’s hearing on Monday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the Democrats were being cheered on by permanently angry women (and maybe some men) dressed in red cloaks with white duckbills extending from their hoods.

This is the uniform of the oppressed women in Hulu’s serialization of Margaret Atwood’s dystopic, anti-Christian novel. If you thought atheist crusader Philip Pullman’s thinly disguised depiction of church authorities as evil in “The Golden Compass” book and movie were bad, Ms. Atwood runs circles around him.  In her 1985 book and TV series, the polygamous men cite Bible verses and treat the women as sex slaves.

Braving the rain on Monday, the demonstrators held signs festooned with messages such as a giant NO! in rainbow colors over “Trump/Pence Must Go!”

This time around in the U.S. Senate star chamber, the Democrats who pretend to honor religious liberty while assailing nominees’ faith think they have a smoking gun. The word “handmaid.”

Mrs. Barrett and her husband have long been members of an ecumenical charismatic Christian group begun in 1971 called People of Praise, based in South Bend, Indiana, home to Notre Dame University and its law school, from which she graduated summa cum laude and taught constitutional law.

Women leaders in the group, including Mrs. Barrett, previously held the title of “handmaid,” which is derived from Jesus’s mother Mary’s own description of herself in Luke 1:38 as “the handmaid of the Lord.”

The group dropped that title in favor of “women’s leader” because “the meaning of this title has shifted dramatically in our culture in recent years,” a spokesman said.

Mrs. Barrett, 48, now serves on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, to which she was nominated by President Donald J. Trump in 2017.  At that time, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California said at a hearing that Mrs. Barrett’s religious beliefs worried her because “the dogma lives loudly within you.”

Wow. Talk about open religious bigotry. But it’s OK because the senator is a Democrat, and they get to do this sort of thing. It’s not as if the media would have a problem with it.

Here’s a front-page headline from last Wednesday’s Washington Post:

Barrett long active with insular Christian group: Community preached subservience for women, former members say.

Ah, those “former members.” You can always dig up a dissident or two to make the point you want, unless you’re reporting on Black Lives Matter or the Democratic National Committee, which are pretty much the same thing.

As for People of Praise, here’s more from their own media statement provided to Heavy.com:

A majority of People of Praise members are Catholic, and yet the People of Praise is not a Catholic group. We aim to be a witness to the unity Jesus desires for all his followers. Our membership includes not only Catholics but Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, Pentecostals and nondenominational Christians. What we share is a common baptism, a commitment to love one another and our teachings, which we hold in common.

Freedom of conscience is a key to our diversity. People of Praise members are always free to follow their consciences, as formed by the light of reason, experience and the teachings of their churches.

As the Apostle Paul instructs, and many biblically sound churches teach, men are to be the spiritual leaders in the church and in their own households and they are to love their wives as they love themselves. This is considered scandalous by our cultural commissars.

In Ephesians 5:25, Paul writes: “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for her.” That means laying down your life if necessary.  It’s why when things go bump in the night, the guy should be the one who goes downstairs with the baseball bat or the Sig Sauer.

Democrats are terrified of the attractive and articulate Mrs. Barrett, a mother of seven, just as they were threatened by Clarence Thomas, who destroyed their narrative that blacks belong on the leftist plantation.

Mrs. Barrett has impeccable credentials that the U.S. Senate already examined when she was nominated for the appeals seat.  At that time, the “handmaid” reference didn’t get traction, since the TV version of “The Handmaid’s Tale” only debuted in April of that year.

In the meantime, we’ve seen U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) take a page from Bernie Sanders and grill Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo in 2018 about sex and marriage, strongly implying that his traditional Christian views are a form of bigotry. Booker likes to make much of his own Christian faith, which apparently is free of the burden of having to abide by crystal clear biblical principles regarding sex.

Also hewing to “smarter than God” theology is Kamala Harris, who has embraced all things LGBTQ, plus taxpayer-funded abortion and Marxist economics. On December 5, 2019, Harris asked Brian Buescher, President Trump’s nominee for district court in Nebraska, “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” And, “Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed marriage equality when you joined the organization?”

During Monday’s hearing, Mrs. Barrett had to face the likes of Booker, Feinstein and Harris, plus the troupe of “Handmaid” harridans.

After the process is over and Associate Justice Barrett is sworn in, the “ladies” can make further use of their costumes.

After all, Halloween is right around the corner.

This article was originally published at Townhall.com. Follow Robert Knight on is a His website is robertHknight.com.



The True Handmaid’s Tale: The Story of Ba’albeck

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The series The Handmaid’s Tale based on the novel of the same title by Margaret Atwood just premiered on Hulu and is generating a flurry of excitement from ever-excitable “progressives.” It depicts a dystopian world in which Christians have established a totalitarian theocracy where fertile women are conscripted into producing children for infertile members of society’s elites. Paranoid “progressives” are calling this series “timely.”

Yes, today, as Christians face greater oppression than they have ever faced in the history of this country, “progressives” believe the country is a risk of becoming a conservative Christian theocracy.  Well, here’s a tale to tell your children.

The True Handmaid’s Tale: The Story of Ba’albeck

A dystopian world, the seeds of which were sown in the 20th Century, reached its apex–or perhaps nadir–in the mid-21st Century when an oppressive and intrinsically sterile ruling class recruited impoverished women to become their breeders. At great risk, these disadvantaged women bore children for elite, sterile homosexual couples.

Procreation had been long been severed from intimate, committed, lifelong comprehensive unions, so the final step of severing it from sex was easy.

In this dark period of history, procreation resulted from impersonal, sexless technologically induced fertilization aided by poorly compensated human incubators. Children became commodities who never knew their mothers. Laws were passed prohibiting citizens from even talking about the right of children to know and be raised by their mother and father.

The country had transmogrified from a constitutional republic to a totalitarian state that was shaped by an ancient gnostic and pagan sexual ideology. That which gives order and meaning to sexuality, which is to say religion, had been banned outside of “homes, hearts, and pews.” America had become the cultic ideocracy known as Ba’albeck.

To perpetuate this cultic ideocracy, the freedom of Christians had to be curtailed. They lost their businesses. They were prohibited from teaching in public schools or producing art. Their private schools and colleges were shut down. And then they lost their right to speak freely.

Ba’albeckians–long enthralled by 20th Century dystopian literature–imposed Newspeak on citizens in order to control not merely language but thought itself. The words “mother” and “father” were replaced with Parent “A” and Parent “B.” If “mother” and “father” were used, they were severed from any reference to biological femaleness or maleness. So, the sycophantic press wrote stories about men who were mothers.

All other references to biological sex were eradicated by year 2050. Within one generation, “he,” “she,” “him,” and “her” were relics of an obsolete gendered past, replaced by the gender-free “ze,” “zim,” and “zir.”

Though attacks on gendered language began with the “trans”-gressive movement, homoppressors soon saw the utility of eradicating public recognition of sex differences, and so laws were passed banning the use of all gendered language. Initially, violators were fined. When such penalties proved ineffective, violators were jailed and then disappeared.

As homoppressors and their “trans”-allies began their assault on sexual boundaries by capturing virtually every major cultural institution–including the arts, media, government, education, and health–a resistance emerged but with insufficient numbers to withstand the power and reach of the sexual revolutionaries. For a time, many thought the true remnant was crushed…

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