yes outages there is a mirror image of highlights the struggles and results from this one native alaskan people trying to preserve their way of life. owns one of the stupid us and our foes and. your mom's from. al-jazeera correspondent we are still here. judge capital is one of the finest people to print court nominee recount in our judge brett kavanaugh is fighting back its three judge breakout role wasn't telling the judge brett kavanaugh his confirmation would swing the balance of the high court to the right and could lead to a revisiting of that hot button issues as abortion and gay marriage a woman says the president's u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh assaulted her when she uncovered were both in high school the u.s. has just gone through its most contentious supreme court nomination in decades

america watched as brooke kavanagh ascended to the highest court in the country despite a serious allegation of sexual assault from his high school days. as the senate review kavanagh's nomination protesters took to the streets including discreet dressed as characters from the hymn mates tell a dystopian t.v. show in which women are oppressed by the state it was hard for me to breathe and i thought that bret was accidentally going to kill me what you want to do is destroy this guy's life hold the seat open and hope you win it twenty twenty this ist about an ethical sham sets up and politicians the vents once again broke open america's political and cultural divides but they also told another story about the group to back kavanagh's nomination from the beginning america's religious right a strategic highly organized minority that has found itself more powerful than ever under present. donald trump. in this episode of faultlines we go inside the

movement to explore its special relationship with the president as well as the implications for the two thousand and eighteen midterm elections and beyond do you believe in god you do none of these allegations are true correct no down in your mouth zero one hundred percent certain you swear to god i swear to god. for many on the christian right president trumps nomination of brett kavanaugh was the moment the been waiting for. it was the culmination of a decades long strategy to take over the american judiciary. but democrats were suspicious of cabinet record especially on abortion and gay rights the right for women to make their own medical decisions including the right to an abortion and not a back alley butcher the right of all americans to marry who they love these

are our rights these are american rights and the president that nominated you has said i will nominate someone who is anti choice and we believe what he said. one of the religious rights main goals is to reverse roe v wade the one nine hundred seventy three supreme court decision that legalized abortion. but their strategy has evolved to organize against l.g.b. t.q. rights as well. or are you familiar with it. as a presidential candidate on live television donald trump promised the religious right a supreme court that would advance their agenda do you want to see the court overturn really what we put another two or perhaps three justices and that's really what's going to be has that's will happen and that. happen automatically in my

opinion because i am putting pro-life justices on the court. that promise ild the unlikely deal between the religious right and a candidate whose personal scandals would seem to contradict christian values. all these years later i'm i'm quite ashamed rob schenck is an even joke a minister who spent more than twenty years doing congressional outreach for the religious right he's recently had a change of heart about their political tactics the movement i was once a part of. was always looking for. an ob seek we have a candidate who would do more or less do our bidding i have been pro-life you know what should allow your parents well that's a good value but you know it should be the law so when i saw it. don't trump in an interview with chris matthews and matthews specifically asked him you know should women who are seeking abortion be punished should abortion be punished and i saw

trump hesitate for a minute and then reiterate what had been discussed in many a strategy meeting of the past you know probably women probably do have to face some kind of punishment it has to be some form of punishment for the one yeah it has to be some form but we were always hunting for the guy who would take our script and read it who would. make the facts stand barkat. the religious right are politicised religious fundamentalists of a sort they are catholic and protestant and not on the nomination but eventually girls that surround and support mr trump really represent a very small sector of american evangelical with.

thousands of christian activists come to washington d.c. for the values voter summit every year. is part political convention part rally a laboratory where they hope to convert their beliefs into political action. national polling shows that most americans support l.g.b. t.q. and abortion rights. even the majority of christians don't share the views of the religious right. a group that actually see a fusion between nationality and religion possibly race and religion and certainly. culture and religion. even though the religious right makes up a minority of christians they vote as a bloc so their political power is disproportionate to their number. there's a common sentiment in the movement that they're under attack by society at large. and that america has moved too far from what they view as its christian origins.

now is the time when we need to stand up and start pushing back and saying and that has enough we want our rights back we want our liberty and freedom and we want our religious freedoms back and we don't need to be pushed around by anybody else just these last two days you've had the secretary of state as the vice president of the united states members of congress all here to to speak to you right now in the world do you think that the government as a in the quarter you know i do is the government is living in our cleaner now i think and and chris are trying to get it became president i think it's been a great direction in the right direction and up until this i think we were going down the rabbit hole communism socialism no i think president trump has done what he said he was to believe made promises that he's followed through on the promises i care about our american values and i'm a supporter of president outright and i'd love to this crisis may wait a bit. and survive that became better but all these boring politicians. i think

even if the claim was really. making many of. these are public entities most of all he likes his family any place patriotism. he promised them that he would give them everything they wanted the supreme court of their dreams antiabortion laws judges who took away with roe v wade and marriage equality and so they took that deal and now he's given what they want trump and his advisers and his evangelical supporters were very smart and they had this huge gather where they got a thousand religious right leaders and conservative preachers to come to new york city meet with trump and this is where this deal was made so trump supposedly the great deal maker what did he get out of it the presidency. i mean white evangelicals voted for him eighty eighty one percent and they really helped put him in there and they turned people out they helped overcome last minute objections like that tape where he was talking about you know grabbing women and so he had all

these religious figures telling them this is our guy peter mcgovern has monitored the religious right for twenty years to understand the movements political strategy and key players their goal was to take operational control of one of the political parties and they've effectively done that you know they have basically made the republican party the religious rights party. if there's any place where the christian rights vision for america is coming to fruition is to see . this the only state in the country were even make up the majority according to the pew research center. and in the last year alone the state passed the least eight different laws from the religious right's playbook. these bills are often framed as preserving religious freedom but they can give legal cover for discrimination and here's how far can go. look at

this. the owner of this hardware store here will tennessee has placed a big sign on the front door that says no gays allowed right next to a christian plaque sticker he believes it's his legal right to deny people service based on his christian beliefs this can happen because there's no federal law protecting the l.g.b. t.q. community from discrimination. all the hey you mr amex you know i'm just going to myself and i'm josh rushing in with a show called fault lines and i was hoping you'd want to talk about the sign no gays allowed on your door you're gay and you live around here how far do you have to drive to. twenty five miles each way. and they can have it doesn't come in here. because this is my store my property is just like my home for the sign is just about same sex marriage to look at a single gay person come in and buy a hammer i reject them out. even if even even pedophiles which those are two

radically different i don't know that it exists but what a sin have to do and since really specific to religion and this sense really specific to your religion what does that have do with being an american or wanting to buy a hammer in this county the freedom of religion. the freedom of religious liberty that's why this country was even established despite what anybody says this country was founded as a christian nation always has been if a man's having an affair on his wife can he come in and buy a hammer here. so that that's ok just because a man and his players made mistakes doesn't mean he's unfit to run this country this country right now is in better shape than it's ever been in my left in your left i mean in his left it's better than it's ever been there's no difference between a homeless or a homosexual a child molester and a woman that's committed an abortion because she has killed her child and i think

all three of deserve the same penalty. abortion there are beyond why do you think i'm somehow my god he has been chosen by god to run this country and if anybody around him is against. homosexuality and against abortion. and for a children's rights to live yeah i'm will vote for. in fact voters here in tennessee have elected one of the most conservative state legislatures in the country. mark is a republican state senator so you have businesses right now they have signs that say no gays allowed. i don't know and that's allowed in the state the businesses can say. they're not doing business for people who happen to be gay i'm not seeing any of those signs if somebody says that you know what they don't want to do business with me because i'm

a christian that's for whatever reason you know that's going to be their option. business is there to make a profit there's a lot of people trying to change who we are and i want to stay with their roots in the principles that that we were founded on and i believe that when you say change who we are who is we and. who are wave what you mean by that change who we are ok i believe that we are a christian nation and i believe that our roots of come from is the christian values and religious freedom. and i think that there's people that are at this point and they would love to take the opportunity to take god completely out of the conversation and completely out of any public realm and i'm just the opposite i'm just the opposite i do believe in god and i do believe that my life revolves around my religious belief who i am my nation my country that is what i stand for where do you stand on the separation of church and state i don't see

a separation between church and state. at all. in my life of who i am i am a christian whether i am sitting and voting on a piece of legislation or whether i'm. sitting at the beach with my family you know i should be a christian all the way through. earlier this year for a bill that requires all public schools and to see to prominently display the phrase in god we trust. we are in god we trust the phrase is the national motto of the u.s. . but opponents of the law say displaying to schools threatens america's tradition of the separation of church and state. but this isn't just to see this actually be part of project books this legislation is being pushed in states across the country right now. let's put out this plain first state legislatures around the country

there are twenty bells and these bells very intentionally are chipping away at religious liberty island just freedom for all that there are clear and design right there also supposed to make the other side. right fighting all these little efforts and creeping creeping attacks on no one just one warning that well just basically. project blitz is a collection of religious liberties bills written by the congressional caucus foundation. it's a national think tank for the religious right which pushes these bills out to their network of state legislators to be turned into law. thirty states. that. christian america. in the spring of two thousand and eighteen

alone seventy four project puts bills were introduced in at least a dozen states according to the congressional caucus foundation. very intentionally torrence goal of making america a christian nation and imposing their. just from going to. the rest of us. project blitz may be a national initiative but it has a tennessee connection and congresswoman marsha blackburn she's a leader in the organization behind the project i know the left wing or a knuckle dragging conservative and you know what i say that's all right bring it on she's now running for senate and one of the country's most closely watched midterm races thank you three are both president and vice president mike pence have endorsed blackburn traveling to tennessee multiple times for rallies and fund

raising events american means a conservative revolution and leaders who are willing to fight. to. try to talk. to. try to track down we found out she's at a private donor a bit tonight. now to talk to. marsha blackburn has been a favorite of the national religious right for years in part due to her. positions . conservative groups millions into a race. is going to be considered in the senate judiciary emily. to be a supreme court justice. because you are. lucky to have asked me why i

gave him this right to get her attention on the federal level let me tell you. i think a way to go way out there. way yes. oh and by the way. when it comes to the religious right support for trump the most common question people ask is how do they justify supporting him despite his numerous extramarital affairs which would seem to violate their christian values we did not even a minister we elected. yes michael's who is now admitted they paid off of course are in a playboy model here i mean there's a sphere with his third wife and i still see all that he did before he became president united states guy came from here in. israel they.

take congressman blackburn trash one question. it values voters they are you worried about losing voters because it trumps. stand also. the values voter summit open to washington with the midterm elections approaching. kavanagh's nomination was still hanging in the balance so there was a mixture of excitement and tension. until the trumpet ministration no sitting president or vice president had ever spoken here. christian a conservative and a republican in that order and it's my great great honor to return to the values.

but with mike pence who emerged from within the religious right this felt like a homecoming. as another excellent ally to this community because he is a troubling comes from this. white fundamental last question who has been in lock step with that alleges right agenda for his entire career. a great honor to be back at the values voter summit with men and women who forty five days from now. i know in my heart of hearts we'll deliver another historic victory for the american people when we reelected republican majorities in the house and senate in washington d.c. . a vice president. how important is the religious right to the midterms and.

religious right to the midterms and twenty twenty. the summit was a revolving door of republican leadership a pilgrimage by top party officials to appeal to the base that's evolved into the g.o.p. kingmaker. and if we can hold on to the senate majority for two more years we're going to transform the federal judiciary with men and women who believe in. just two years into his term president has appointed more judges on federal appeals courts than any of his recent predecessors this is the fastest pace in the history of our country. if you want to have a long. impact the shingle most consequential thing we can do.

is these lifetime appointments of men and women to the court. the goal here is clear keep electing republicans in order to stack local and federal courts with judges who are sympathetic to the religious rights views in the hope that they'll push through laws that may not have popular support so the impact is going to be huge outside the supreme court if they had eight years a truck and they got four or five hundred federal judges. like come out of the right wing movement they could not only get rid of roe v wade. and get rid of obama as health care they could literally roll back the clock one hundred fifty years. this scenario has electrified americans who don't share their religious rights fears. with republicans controlling all branches of the u.s.

government. at times of don't like the opposition's only recourse was public protest . and the threat of their voting power in the upcoming the from biloxi. i. think we're gonna sell out. thank you thank you. i was right. everyone only got in a little let me know. their responsibility to bring back down on the local level and. we were only. going. to be there for french the. last part. oh why are both sides of the political spectrum the kavanaugh confirmation shows the transformation that's possible when one party sweeps to power with the strategy.

that the courts do is put in place something that lasts for many generations but there is now an outsized power that the select group of white christian nationalist says benefits us all creating and there's no question that having trouble tends. to lead this country as in poland. the passion of religion moves people in ways that nothing else the duty. to show up at the poll to vote is not simply a civic duty it's a spiritual duty which means it's an act of obedience to god right on that but not. the sort of record around africa power the republicans have in state legislatures state houses around the country their policies are being made their supporters are in congress passing policies they like their supporters are in the

white house their supporters are now helping to run the federal agencies you know that's what happens when you win elections is that you get the power. i now invite justice kennedy to come forward and to take the judicial oath. the right to adequate housing water use adequate who decides where she's at housing is not just about four walls and a roof it's about living in a place where you have peace security and most importantly dignity un special rapporteur on a farm talks to al-jazeera. hate violence revenge an increasingly alienated generation is finding new outlets to vent it's anger. in

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