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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 02:22 AM Sep 2020

DeSantis' appointee to Florida Supreme Court belongs to Christian group using law to 'spread Gospel'

DeSantis’ appointee to Florida Supreme Court belongs to Christian group using law to ‘spread the Gospel’
https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/09/15/desantis-appointee-to-florida-supreme-court-belongs-to-christian-group-using-law-to-spread-the-gospel/

Jamie R. Grosshans, the last-minute choice of Gov. Ron DeSantis to the Florida Supreme Court, is an anti-abortion defender who has been active in a number of Christian legal groups, including a powerful national organization whose mission is to “spread the Gospel by transforming the legal system.”

Grosshans, from the Orlando suburb of Winter Garden, was named Florida’s seventh justice Monday, filling the vacancy created last year when President Trump named two of DeSantis' previous appointees, Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

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Both times Grosshans applied to the state’s high court, she left out some details on her application: specifically her membership in the Alliance Defending Freedom, her work as a Blackstone Fellow, a prestigious but secretive national award that trains rising star lawyers in the conservative teachings of the Alliance Defending Freedom, and her 2011 work with Orlando attorney John Stemberger to prevent a young woman from having an abortion.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is a national organization that, according to its website “exists to keep the doors open for the Gospel by advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, freedom of speech, and marriage and family.”



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Grosshans
In 2011, she worked for Operation Outcry in Orlando, Florida "in helping a 16-year-old girl whose parents were trying to force her into having an abortion."[4]

Grosshans is a member of the Christian Legal Society and a Blackstone Fellow of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-LGBTQ hate group.
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DeSantis' appointee to Florida Supreme Court belongs to Christian group using law to 'spread Gospel' (Original Post) Roland99 Sep 2020 OP
Has anyone else noticed this? DFW Sep 2020 #1
Yep. Demovictory9 Sep 2020 #2
Yup. Any group with "Freedom" in their name is guaranteed to be on the side of fascism. scarletwoman Sep 2020 #3
With one very notable exception of course! DFW Sep 2020 #6
That needed a warning label - it was painful. scarletwoman Sep 2020 #7
I KNEW I forgot something DFW Sep 2020 #9
I have to disagree bluecollar2 Sep 2020 #11
Fair point DFW Sep 2020 #12
"Patriot" is another term Roland99 Sep 2020 #13
They have their own dictionary. n/t DFW Sep 2020 #15
Freedom vercetti2021 Sep 2020 #4
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Sep 2020 #5
Dominionist! czarjak Sep 2020 #8
The "Talibornagain" are flooding the nation's legal systems pfitz59 Sep 2020 #10
Which deity's gospel? C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #14

DFW

(54,047 posts)
1. Has anyone else noticed this?
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 02:28 AM
Sep 2020

The more a right-wing organization uses the word "freedom" in their name, the less they seem to be for freedom?

bluecollar2

(3,622 posts)
11. I have to disagree
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:10 AM
Sep 2020

I can think of at least two organizations that don't meet your characterization.

The Texas Freedom Network

The Freedom From Religion Foundation.

I do get your point though.

pfitz59

(10,196 posts)
10. The "Talibornagain" are flooding the nation's legal systems
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 03:51 AM
Sep 2020

with lawyers and judges like this. Same with School Boards, City Councils and County Supervisors and other "under-the-radar" positions. This doesn't even touch on all Advisory Boards and Committees they populate. A stealth takeover of our nation.

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