You might recall that during Amy Coney Barrett's,
Supreme Court nomination hearing, some details came up about an organization that
she was involved in which has been likened by many as a cult.
Some say that's totally unfair.
Well, some newly leaked footage shows that I don't know,
maybe there's something to it.
This is the people of praise.
It's a secretive Christian faith group that counts Amy Coney Barrett as a member
up into including now.
They apparently consider women's obedience and subservience to men as one of its
key early teachings, which is just so much fun.
This is according to leaked remarks as well as writings of the wife of
the group's founder who's nice enough of the group's founder to allow her to write,
that was nice of him.
How progressive.
Anyway, here's a bit of the video from the people of praise
>> And suddenly we were having teachings
on headship and the roles of men and women and
all sorts of things we hadn't counted on at all.
And some of the women who are still in my women's group as a matter of
fact would wear sunglasses all the time because they were always crying, okay.
And would have to hold onto their chairs every time somebody started teaching
because, what are we going to hear this time?
But it all worked out just fine.
So what would you get if you had some sort of mad scientist lab and
you combined Betty White with the handmaid's tale and
cringe e laughter, something like that actually.
She was describing an absolutely horrifying ordeal.
Women who were so beaten down by the experience they were undergoing so
terrified about what the future might bring.
That they could not stop crying and
they would literally grip the furniture because they had no idea
what insane thing a male religious zealot was going to bark at them.
That was going to strip away their rights, consign them to humiliation,
degradation and they knew they would have to accept that.
Whatever this insane man yelled at them would be their new nightmarish reality and
that woman looks back on that and says it all worked out and
all the men in the room laughed and laughed.
It's great for them.
Great news for
them that the women were put in a position where they were forced to deal with us.
>> Do you know how weird you have to be to be considered a weird religion?
[LAUGH] Like this is way weirder than normal Christianity
where a man chance of dead language and
then makes you drink another like a dead man's blood and eat his body.
So that you, after you die cannot be dead anymore, amen.
>> That's the, that's the normal one.
>> That's the baseline and [CROSSTALK] What's that?
>> You're talking about how this one is comparatively weird.
I have some details.
I wanna own a bunch of what you're saying.
So, there's the overall philosophical constant of complete obedience of
women to their husbands.
I mean, that's, I think that's the goal for many religions, but
this one was founded on it.
So also, let's see, former member, these are these are four members in the group,
talking about their experience.
All decisions about finances and dating relationships were made by the men.
They were encouraged to speak in tongues and perform exorcisms.
So, I think we can all agree that it is one thing to be in the throes
of religious lunacy and to begin yourself speaking in tongues.
I think that's weird, I can't imagine it.
But to tell another person, hey, we've had some complaints,
you're not speaking in a made up language enough and we would really love it if you
would pretend to speak a language that doesn't exist.
It would just really look good for
the group if you would start babbling in front of everyone.
That's so much weirder than just doing it yourself [LAUGH].
>> For me, a lot of this argument falls apart when you realize that she is like
a Supreme Court justice.
So obviously this church doesn't preclude you from getting like big time jobs.
I think it's >> Allowed her to have a job that allows
her to pursue their philosophy as >> Right, it's more the aspirations
of religion, not to like the betterment of the self in one's
personal relationship with their lord, but rather the changing of
societies in ways that actually go against the founding principles.
They say that they hold so dear, but rather to further not American ideology,
but this weird theocratic absolutism onto all of us in a way that if
you actually read the text of the bible, Jesus wasn't too keen on.
It's always weird to me when I finish a sentence and
I just take John's breath away >> I just like
>> You're right there buddy
>> She's on the Supreme Court,
she had never argued a case before.
She wasn't experienced enough.
There's no justification for it.
She was chosen because she's a young whack a doo, she's crazy and young, so
they can have her be on there for a very long time being crazy and lying during her
nomination hearing because she knew it didn't matter if she lied.
She could lie as much as she wants about what she's gonna do or she's going to
exercise independent judgment or whatever, get the hell out of here.
She's gonna do whatever religious dogma dictates through her mind,
her own misinterpreted of Christianity, that's what she's gonna do.
She knew it.
She was chosen because everyone else knew it.
But she got to lie about it and cannot be taken off the court effectively.
>> Right, she bore false witness against an entire country when she said that
Roe was the settled law of the land.
She lied now in her mind, she's lying for
the betterment of everybody and that's just me pointing out a hypocrisy.
But what's worth pointing out is that getting people like her enough,
people like her on the Supreme Court took 30 years or 50 years and a lot of money.
And what's scariest is if you I don't know if you guys covered this.
I'm sorry, I don't know but, you might have yesterday, but
the same people behind the initiative to get people like her on the court just
received $1.6 billion in dark money assets and donations to do stuff like this again.
And to show you how extreme she is.
You just, you don't need to only look at the fact that they overturn Roe.
You need to understand that Roe was 7-2 and and five of the justices that
supported the original Roe decision were appointed by Republicans.
And since then the Federalist society has put way more than $1.6 billion and
their cohort have put way more money and
resources into that to turn the Supreme Court certifiably crazy.
By virtue of the evidence I just gave you, they made Rehnquist the only
Republican to vote against Roe, the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
They took the wacko and put him in charge.
That's how and this amid a backdrop of them saying that we don't want
the Supreme Court to be politicized
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