via Fox News: Reacting to Texas school shooting, MSNBC guest claims GOP sacrifices children to ‘the god of gun ownership’
by Gabriel Hays
Frank Schaeffer claimed the Texas school shooting reveals how evangelical Christians, the GOP and the NRA are a 'gun-worshipping cult'
On MSNBC’s The ReidOut Friday night, author and critic of Christian fundamentalism Frank Schaeffer used the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas to rip apart the GOP as a party dominated by evangelicals who sacrifice children to "Moloch" like the pagan religions of the Old Testament.
Host Joy Reid prompted her guest by mentioning the "contradiction" she claimed is displayed when conservatives advocate for abortion restrictions but refuse to pursue gun restrictions.
Reid stated, "You know, the thing is that there’s a strange mix of fatalism, right, when it comes to things like abortion, of saying, ‘Well, you know, if you get raped and pregnant, that’s just God putting baby in the world and you can’t have an abortion,’ and, by the way, believing the laws can stop abortions somehow."
She claimed, "When it comes to guns, ‘Well, you know, if that happens, that just happens. It is what it is, but you can’t have any laws.’ They had a contradiction for me."
Schaeffer responded by saying that this is what happens "once you’re in the grip of the conspiracy theory and somehow the world is against you, then consistency is not your strong suit."
Describing evangelical Christians in the U.S., and touting his book, he continued, "What you see is a group of people who claim family values. You were talking about my new book, ‘Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy,’ well, that is what evangelicals say they are selling, but they are not."
Schaeffer continued, blasting evangelicals as "misogynistic" and claiming they run the Republican Party: "They are a misogynistic group of people who are completely anti-family. These are the people – the Republican Party – now controlled by the evangelical Christian nationalist movement, it’s not — it is not a democratically elected party anymore in the sense of being committed to democracy."