Killing of lawmaker spotlights Christian supremacy, political violence
”For example, Boelter attended the Christ for the Nations Institute (CFNI), which Frederick Clarkson of Political Research Associates has called the “tap root” of the NAR. Key NAR leader Dutch Sheets was an executive director of the institute. CFNI, however, is not just linked to the NAR. It was founded by Gordon Lindsay, who journalist Jeff Sharlet claims was an influence on Boelter. In the 1930s and 1940s, Lindsay participated in British Israelism, a precursor of A White supremacist and antisemitic form of Christianity that believes White Europeans are descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. Learn more . Boelter was also steeped in A movement that emerged in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, a decision which prevented states from outlawing abortion under most circumstances. Learn more rhetoric, which emerged during the first iteration of the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more in the 1970s and 1980s. The NAR also embraces this rhetoric, claiming abortion exists because there is demonic power defending it.”