Sizzling Lindsey

   Lindsey Graham picked up the decibels a little in his opening questions this morning to Amy Coney Barrett, her six children and her sisters. I wonder how many of them have read Kate Hennessy's biography of her Grandmother Dorothy Day. The Pope said Day is one of four Great Americans in his Rushmore, M Lking, Abraham Lincoln and maybe Walt Whitman was the fourth. How many of Amy's family know the life of Dot Day, Mother of One Child, Tamar, and know it well. Amy's colleague at Notre Dame says Whitman with Lincoln and Emily Dickinson unlike the fundamentalist juggernaut of mid 1800's America, became the new theologians who were about to get the United States past it's impasse.

   But I digress  This will not be a perfect history lesson as the font keeps changing, but will be a shout out to Upstate SC media to get off their hiney's and start pursuing some questions that matter given Upstate Lindsey one of their own has the national attention....And this is going up right away so come back to it. As you know Mitch McConnell, the gravedigger of American democracy is up to a railroad job and Lindsey is in on it so time for My Friend Four, the Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald Journal and FBC Spartanburg of Trey Gowdy to engage this discussion. And of course David Wilkins, friend of the Riley Inst at Furman, the Bush family and former chair of Clemson trustees where Trevor Lawrence and Darrien Rencher came down on the side of Drew Brees in his late May dustup with Donald Trump.

     So it looks like Deshaun Watson and Trevor Lawrence and Darrien Rencher are not voting for Trump nor Lindsey Graham and if they lived in Alabama they would be voting with Nick Saban against tommy Tuberville and if they wandered up to Rainsville Alabama home of Jeremy Pruitt of the Tenn Vols they would have a few questions there.

   My friend Randall Balmer of Dartmouth has written extensively about how the politics of race became the politics of Abortion. He has said while researching the paper of the fundamentalist Catholic Paul Weyrich, of the camp of Amy Coney safe to say, it was as if Weyrich's papers began to SIZZLE as it dawned on Weyrich he could network with Jerry Falwell embraced by the fundamentalists in the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and replace race baiting with the mendacity of the politics of the anti abortion movement. Google Stansell, Holy War, New Republic and read the concluding paragraphs.

     So whether it has dawned on the righteous Amy Coney with her adopted children of color or not, she is being played by Dark forces that my friends at Good Faith Media dot org, religion dispatches, the Divinity School at Duke, religion departments at Wofford, Furman and Baylor and other humanities faculty have warned. And they are joined by Balmer at Dartmouth, Nathan Hatch, formerly at Notre Dame now president of Wake Forest and the above mentioned Noll.

    See John Pierce two pieces on the politics of abortion in the last month at Good Faith Media, and google the politics of abortion at Liberty University at religion dispatches....I know John Pierce. He is from Ringold Ga and a grad of Berry College in Rome Ga, not exactly what you would call sterling AOC credentials.

     See Lee Atwater's Nword memo at the opening of Stuart Stevens it Was all a Lie. Go to Judson Bookstore on Mainstreet Greenville SC in the building where they had the trial for the lynching of Willie Earle that got the attention of Rebecca West and Later Furman's Schaefer Kendrick and look at page 9 of Robert Jones White Too Long and he will spell it out for you.

    So in 1990 at a Furman symposium taking a look at Willie Earle, Kendrick said most of Greenville's so called "better people' were for the most part struck mute about their silence and complicity in the Willie Earle verdict. 

    So now how are the "better People" of Christ Church, the Clemson trustee board, Westminster Prez, Buncombe Street UMC, the law offices downtown and on Wade Hampton, the Destination City Peeps in the mayors office, David Wilkins and his friends at the Greenville Country Club; how are they gonna vote in Chanticleer and elsewhere as Lindsey Graham presides over this railroad Job helping Trump and Mitch McConnell dig deeper the grave of American Democracy?

    Also see Joe Crespino's Strom Thurmond's America. Jill Lepore's These Truths, Jon Meacham on the Soul of America and Harold Bloom in the American Religion on Lindsey Graham and his know nothing Fundamentalists in the SBC.

     One salient point that registered with me over the weekend. Strom Thurmond led the fight during the 70s to deport John Lennon. Unforgivable.!!!!!