Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson erupted after failing to block a bipartisan proxy voting bill allowing parental leave for lawmakers.
Despite once voting by proxy himself, Johnson called it “unconstitutional,” revealing GOP resistance to family-friendly policies.
Critics say this aligns with Trump-era efforts to push women out of public life, consistent with Project 2025’s goal of restoring “traditional families.”
Johnson’s move, including canceling House activity, exposed the contradiction in the GOP’s “pro-family” stance and highlighted deeper hostility to workplace flexibility and women’s equality.
“Pro-family”, “family friendly”, “family values”, and similar phrases are pretty much all dogwhistles for “Christian values” but not the values that actually help anyone (love thy neighbor, etc).
These “Christians” would already have shipped Jesus to gitmo.
Something something bootstraps.
Aside from a funeral and a couple of weddings, I haven’t set foot in a church since I moved out on my own. However, I would absolutely sit down for a service where the preacher read passages from the New Testament with the moral of the sermon being “Are we the baddies?”
They would have complained about Jesus feeding the masses because “it’s just going to make them lazy”.
You need the Satanic temple for these actual tenets that they supposedly stand for.
That’s the satanic temple. The church of Satan is a completely different thing.
Yeah sorry, corrected it just around when you posted.
And by “Christian values” they mean “White American Evangelical Protestant values”, not anything that has anything to do with what the Christ of the Bible was talking about.
So not really Christian values.
I mean, they are 100% Christian values though they’re not Christ’s values.
Paraphrased, and can’t recall who said it (I thought it was George Carlin but can’t find the quote).
There is a quote that often makes it around the internet mis attributed to Ghandi says something along those lines. The most likely origin is speculated to be Indian philosopher Bara Dada in the mid-1920s : “Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians, you are not like him.”
Okay, so this was interesting to me, since Bara Dada isn’t really a name. It literally means elder brother in Bengali. (Although most speakers will shorten it to Borda in everyday conversation.) I did a bit of searching, and the quote seems to come from Dwijendranath Tagore, the eldest brother of the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath did refer to Dwijendranath as Bara Dada (Boro Dada would be the better pronunciation) in his writings, and Dwijendranath was a philosopher and poet so it makes sense. The original quote seems to be, “Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.” which is found in the book The Christ of the Indian Road by E. Stanley Jones.
neat, I learn new things today
I’m guilty of misattributing it to Gandhi
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ - Mohandas Gandhi
Interesting. Didn’t realize it went back that far - again, I had always (mis-) attributed the quote to Carlin. Thanks for sharing.
But Carlin put his touch on it and modernized the language to make it slightly more digestible for modern peoples. There’s something to that at least.
Unfortunately, these are mainstream American Christian values. They’re not the values of Jesus in the New Testament, but they don’t care about that.
They’re dog whistles for needing more babies to keep the pyramid scheme that is our economy afloat.
Subjugating women, hating the gays, blocking birth control; it’s all to pop out more babies.
Endless growth will be the death of us.
Don’t forget “Traditional values” and “Nuclear Family” lol