Janet Mefferd writes for the Christian Post:
Some of what this crowd promotes is commendable, such as opposition to abortion, attacks on the family and LGBT ideology, and biblical positions that Christians largely support. But scratch the surface of the Christian morality speeches and the picture grows darker.
Although the factual details are too voluminous to list here, this movement as a whole is gaining a well-earned reputation for politically intolerant authoritarianism, white nationalism/Kinism, hostility toward Jewish people and Israel, and advocacy against the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of free speech, a woman’s right to vote — and even religious liberty (except for themselves).
And though its leaders and band of followers would deny it, a close examination shows that this Christian nationalism is not a biblical movement at all. It is the flip side of the woke left. This new Christian nationalism is, in fact, a woke right.
Read the full article.
The piece goes on to call out a number of notorious Christian nationalist groups and figures, included Gab founder Andrew Torba and former Trump official William Wolfe.
Janet Mefferd hosts a national radio show for the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the American Family Association, and has been a featured speaker “ex-gay” conferences.
She has appeared here multiple times, perhaps most notably in 2018 when she and her radio show guest declared that Bigfoot sightings are “demonic virtual reality” projections by Satan.
And we can’t forget the time in 2013 when she called JMG readers “vicious, intolerant haters” for your comments on a post about gay death penalty advocate Scott Lively.
All that being said, of course we agree with Mefferd’s take on Christian nationalists.
In Janet Mefferd’s world, criticizing evangelical Christians for laying aside their purported moral convictions to support Trump is actually an attempt to discourage Religious Right voter turnouthttps://t.co/9iGx7mThi4
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 15, 2019
Janet Mefferd demands boycott of Honey Maid graham crackers for aiding “gay propaganda machine” http://t.co/ZeoYgspRzW
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 19, 2014
Radio host Mefferd compares Obama to Stalin: “We know what Stalin ended up doing to millions and millions of people” http://t.co/v9Nl71dh
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 22, 2012
Janet Mefferd interview Scott Lively and he again called for the passage of Russian-style anti-gay laws in the US: https://t.co/uzMzqw2HnO
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 17, 2016
Janet Mefferd says Republicans shouldn’t hire gays because they hate God and freedom http://t.co/6SO4fYQt
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 3, 2012