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Trump’s Lawyer Curb-stomps Karen Swallow Prior

We’ve written for you before about Karen Swallow Prior, how we continually find ourselves vexed and mystified that she’s viewed so favorably and regarded as conservative within Christian circles, despite the plethora of problems with her. The list is extensive and has been enumerated below.

Fortuitously, Prior recently found herself the victim of a verbal “mark-and-avoid” beatdown when Jenna Ellis, one of President’s Trump’s lawyers and also the special counsel representing John MacArthur and Grace Community Church’s struggle to stay open, took a potshot at her after Prior was caught complaining about someone justifying the Trump-loving caravan that escorted the Biden campaign bus out of Texas.

Displaying more discernment than the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed #BigEva elites who see nothing amiss with Prior’s theological proclivities, Ellis gets in another “name names” kick to the ribs for good measure.

With being called out by Ellis as a flaming troll and embittered progressive, and learning that President Trump retweeted Al Mohler’s support for the President, the sound of the veins pulsing in her forehead and the shrieking “REEEEEEEEEEE!” could be heard halfway across the country.

Promised enumerations below:

KSP just told pro-lifers not to vote pro-life in 2020 in Christianity Today.
KSP doesn’t know what persecution is
KSP said that “abortion is not murder” and “calling abortion murder” is mean to abortion doctors and it’s “unchristlike” in Christianity Today.
KSP worked with her gay BFF to support gay porn propaganda at college campuses called Fun Home.
KSP repeatedly attacks immigration law and promotes amnesty for illegal aliens.
KSP congratulated her “good friend” Rachel Held Evans when she was appointed to Obama’s faith advisory council.
KSP lauds Black Lives Matter.
KSP says that poor people don’t have a right to own guns.
KSP calls herself a feminist, and started an organization with the word “feminist” IN ITS VERY TITLE.
KSP attacked Vice President Pence and Billy Graham for refusing to be alone with women who aren’t their wives on grounds it’s “sexist.”
KSP started a feminist organization full of female preachers and wildly unorthodox theologians to create more female preachers.
KSP flat-out said that she’s not a complementarian and attacks that position.
KSP was chosen by the Animal Liberation Front (according to them) to infiltrate evangelical institutions with “animal liberation theology” back in 2007.
KSP serves the rabidly liberal Human Society (which is more radical than PETA) and issued an animal rights declaration called Every Living Thing.
KSP advocates for the end to modern animal husbandry “even if humans suffer” and “even if the economy of the country be damned.”
KSP thinks pets go to Heaven because when you name them it gives them personhood.
KSP says that cruelty to animals makes her more upset than abortion.
KSP’s language was called gay-affirming by Dr. James White here. He agrees.
KSP endorsed the pro-LGBT It Gets Better Campaign.
KSP endorsed the Revoice Conference both before and after it happened, and endorsed it again on Roys’ program just this week.
KSP endorsed accomodating “transgender” people by changing bathroom facilities to appease them.
KSP chooses not to take a side in the gay marriage issue when she writes.

Newly minted “Boss Karen” and Nashville Council Member Sharon Hurt said last week during a meeting of the Joint Public Safety and Health Committee that current legislation for those not wearing masks is too weak and doesn’t go far enough.

She suggested stronger legislation must be mounted in the form of charging anyone not wearing a mask with murder or attempted murder. According to transcripts provided by the Washington Examiner:

But my concern is — you know I work for an organization, that if they pass a virus, then they are tried for murder or attempted murder, if they are not told… and this person who may very well pass this virus that’s out in the air because they’re not wearing a mask is basically doing the same thing to someone who contracts it and dies from it.
It seems to me that we have been more reactive, as opposed to proactive, and a little too late, too little. So, my thing is, maybe there should be legislation, stronger legislation, I don’t know if Mike Jameson is…can speak to it, but maybe there needs to be stronger legislation to say that if you do not wear a mask and you subject exposure of this virus to someone else then there will be some stronger penalty as it is in other viruses that are exposed.”

After being told that the city council doesn’t have the authority to create criminal legislation that would warrant the death penalty if violated, Hurt responds sadly and dejectedly:

I was afraid that was going to be the answer…I guess that’s the whole point of asking for something to be done as early as the Council was pushing. It seems it was not taken as seriously as it should have been and thus we are in the situation we are in right now.

While her suggestion was ridiculous on the face of it, it does highlight some of the exasperation being felt by a society cracking down on dissenting opposition. Nashville is enforcing a mask-mandate in public, with the city having recently hired more law enforcement to patrol the streets looking for violators, as well as enforcing any businesses not wearing masks or not enforcing masks policies.

Nashville Churches, however, are still exempt from the law, enabling them to gather unemcumbered to worship and have servivces as they see fit, with only suggested guidliness being issued. This is due to Tennesse having some of the nation’s more permissive guidelines for churches, thanks to Republican Governor Bill Lee, a professing Christian.

But with a new poll from Pew Research Center showing that “80% U.S. adults overwhelmingly say houses of worship should be required to follow the same rules about social distancing and large gatherings as other organizations or businesses in their local area.” it is unknown how much longer the admittted double standard will last – whether Nashville will become more lax on businesses, or become more stringent on churches.