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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

So who was the sinister Svengali behind the whole Hobby Lobby thing?

Yep. You guessed it. It was little old me. Or so says paranoid left-wing commentator Frank Schaeffer in an article at Patheos spinning out the most bizarre conspiracy theory to appear since William F. Buckley excommunicated the Birchers and Lyndon LaRouche shuttled off to, well, wherever Lyndon LaRouche shuttled off to. How did I (allegedly) do it?  Easy. First I cleverly brought the U.S. Catholic bishops, the Mormon leadership, and the major Evangelical leaders under my influence. Then I worked through my "followers," Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.

You think I'm kidding?  Here's Schaeffer:

"[Robert] George is the de facto father of the twinned war against gays and war against women. Scalia is his follower and close friend. And George has the support of the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, the Mormon leadership and the most conservative of the evangelical leaders. Charles Colson was George’s close confident [sic]. Together they hatched the plan that in the end (and after Colson died) became the Hobby Lobby case."

You can read the whole preposterous fantasy here:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2014/07/hobby-lobby-verdict-is-a-victory-for-ultra-right-roman-catholic-co-conspirators-with-chuck-colsons-ghost/

But please, don't tell Justice Scalia. He doesn't know he's my "follower." Let's leave him in blissful ignorance.

https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2014/07/so-who-was-the-sinister-svengali-behind-the-whole-hobby-lobby-thing.html

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