Judge Frank Johnson distinct from Amy Coney Barrett; Implications for SC Graham and Bama Tuberville Senate Races and SEC Football

    Judge Frank Johnson the Lincoln Republican of the Civil Rights era in Alabama believed in Constitution as a Living Breathing Document. He was a Baptist who also saw Scripture in a similar way, was not a literalist thus the similarities in his faith and Constitutional interpretations.

   Amy Coney Barrett is a Catholic Fundamentalist to the right of Pope Francis and for certain Dorothy Day in her perspectives on the Law and a Just Society. Read Day's grand daughter Kate Hennessy biography of Day and let me know if you see much in common with Day's faith and that of ACB.

     Let's get straight to the point. Had ACB been the deciding Judge in Montgomery in March of 1965, Martin Luther King and John Lewis would still be at the base of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma waiting on legal authority to walk on to Glory in Montgomery.

   I would not like to be a Trustee of Auburn or Alabama, Clemson and University of South Carolina to explain the implications, historical and present to the mostly black football players and their extended families who make the SEC football engine run this Railroad job of Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and Trump.

   As I explained in my previous blog, Sizzlin Lindsey, abortion politics as perfected by the right wing of the GOP the last forty years--see recent book Reconsidering Reagan and the Atwater Memo in Stuart Stevens It Was All a Lie--Abortion politics and their sister gun rights of the dark money distortions of the Second Amendment by the NRA are the step child of Race Baiting. That's the ugly truth Lindsey Graham and Tuberville are running on.

     Trump calls people who challenge him on this matter or kneeling SOBS. I asked Trevor Lawrence June 13 at the Clemson BLM march how he came down on the twitter Dustup between Trump and Drew Brees of late spring this year. He said he sided with Brees and his former Clemson QB Deshaun Watson against Trump on the matter saying folks should be free without bullying from the President of the United States to express themselves on such delicate matters.

    Furman's Jessica Taylor of the Cook Political Report just last week explained how tight the Senate Race is in South Carolina and What's at Stake. Josh Moon, Kyle Whitmire and and Joey Kennedy have done likewise in Alabama dismissing Tuberville as nothing more than a Know Nothing, incidentally the conclusion of Harold Bloom in his 1993 American Religion about fundamentalists in the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.

    People in Alabama who knew Harper and Alice Lee; folks like Wayne Flynt and his disciple Mark Wilson of the Auburn Democracy Project, know only the miserably educated could justify a vote for Tuberville in the wake of her legacy. In the October issue of the Alabama Review, Mobile native, long time reporter and columnist for the Charlotte Observer, great admirer of Will Campbell, now retired back in Alabama, Frye Galliard,  has a review of Emory's Joe Crespino book Atticus;  A Book Tommy Tuberville nor anybody in his camp and inner circles I doubt have read because I follow them on facebook and cant see anything of any significance they have considered in the last five years, and that includes Lt Gov Will Ainsworth.

    Just last week at Good Faith Media, Amanda Hiley spelled out what these science deniers bode for public education in Alabama.

    So there it is, in SC and Alabama and of course Georgia too, a test of what passes for Christian integrity and discernment and a modicum of coming to terms with religious political history of the region.