Formerly Rich And Influential Christian Nationalist Pastor Marching In Minnesota … from Crooks & Liars Susie Madrak

Rev. Rob Schenck, one of the most prominent Christian nationalist pastors in America, is painfully sorry for everything he’s done, and says he is working to repair his work. And now he’s marching with the clergy in Minneapolis.

This didn’t just happen. Mother Jones interviewed him last month:

In 2014, at an elegant gala inside the Supreme Court’s gilded Great Hall, a tuxedoed Justice Clarence Thomas turned to me and voiced his approval for my work. I glanced over to where Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife, Jane, were entertaining two of my associates, trustees of the Supreme Court Historical Society, a private, nongovernmental entity for which Roberts served as honorary chair. At that moment, I knew the secretive operation I had run, aimed at emboldening Thomas and his conservative colleagues to render the strongest possible decisions in favor of our right-wing Christian agenda, had succeeded.

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