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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Talibangelical sleaze-bag (allegedly)

Conservative Christian TX Attorney General’s Affair Now Part of Criminal Case | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

The Texas Repugnican Attorney General, Ken Paxton, a committed Talibangelical Christian fighting for a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the USA, is in deep do-dos.

According to the AP report, he had an extra-marital affair with a women whom he later recommended for a job with a wealthy donor who is now at the centre of a criminal investigation against him.

According to AP, Paxton recommended the woman, who had previously worked for a GOP state senator, to Austin property developer, Nate Paul, who has now fingered Paxton in a deposition to the investigators, Paxton having been reported by his top two deputies for improper influence, alleged bribery, abuse of office and other crimes.

If you oppose same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights as much as AG Paxton does, there’s a 90% chance you are cheating on your wife or have an account with Grindr.

AP sources: Texas AG's affair tied to criminal allegations https://t.co/16cU51IgHL

— Dana Nessel (@dananessel) November 6, 2020

People who expect devout Christians to also be law-abiding citizens, especially when holding public office might be surprised by these allegations, if they are not aware of Paxtons scant regard for the law and the US Constitution, which he is continually seeking to subvert and replace with a Taliban-style fundamentalist Christian theocracy. To further this subversive aim he has, in his office as the Texas Attorney General (ie, the state's highest law enforcement officer and guardian of the law):

• Declared that Christian government employees should be allowed to discriminate against gay people, in contravention of federal equality laws.
• Defended the display of "In God We Trust" on police cars and ambulances, in contravention of the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment.
• Defended a sheriff who displayed Christian symbolism on his cars, again in contravention of the Establishment Clause. The sheriff was later ordered to pay $22,000 compensation for his abuse of office and public funds.
• Defended putting Christian symbols in the windows of courthouses, (Establishment Clause again)
• Appointed an assistant and Chief of Staff who had previously worked for a Christian group actively working for an end to Church/State sepprration.
• Referred to the sepperation of Church and State as 'a hoax'.
• Urged SCOTUS to take up a case that would have permitted the display of the Ten Commandments on government property, at public expense, despite the Establishment Clause forbidding it.(SCOTUS declined to take the case)
• Declared that school children "cannot unilaterally refuse" to say the Pledge of Allegiance in school, despite the 1st Amendment.
• Threatened Texas election officials with prosecution if they continued to allow mail-in voting.

Texas Attorney General Paxton comes from a long tradition of sleazy pious Christian fundamentalist hypocrites who say one thing and do another. This syndrome is known as 'moral-self-licensing' where a loudly pious individual believes their piety has earned them enough brownie points in Heaven to be permitted a little relaxation from the rules they expect everyone else to live by and which they would rigorously enforce if only they got the chance. It's as though they view it as some sort of bank account where, so long as you stay in credit by frequently topping it up with some public piety, you can draw on it when you need to, anyway, you can always say sorry to Jesus and have your overdraft paid off, whenever you need to.

A more cynical view is, that, in a country where so many people are fundamentalist Christians, there is much to be gained by pretending to be one of them in order to gain their trust so you can abuse the positions they allow you to occupy for your own self-aggrandizement, much in the way that Donald Trump originally gained power by fooling a lot of the people all of the time, to paraphrase Lincoln.