{"id":2085,"date":"2026-01-26T04:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2026-01-26T04:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:13:13","slug":"he-spent-decades-building-the-religious-right-now-hes-marching-to-undo-it-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"He Spent Decades Building the Religious Right. Now He\u2019s Marching to Undo It. \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credit\">Alex Wong\/Getty; Sam Van Pykeren\/Mother Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"section-lead\">He helped build<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/06\/this-evangelical-pastor-helped-build-the-religious-right-he-now-believes-he-made-a-terrible-mistake-rob-schenck\/\">the religious right in the United States<\/a>. Now he\u2019s in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to join the clergy\u2019s fight ICE\u2019s siege of the city.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PnIAkhnSmgA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he&#039;s marching to undo it.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PnIAkhnSmgA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBeing here, in solidarity, is part of the repair work in my own soul,\u201d said Rev. Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who spent decades commingling church and state to advance conservative causes <a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/magazine\/november-2022\/30-years-i-preached-abortion-was-murder\">like the anti-abortion movement<\/a>. One example: Schenck\u2019s organization, Faith and Action in the Nation\u2019s Capital, created \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/09\/rob-schenck-confessions-of-a-former-christian-nationalist\/\">Operation Higher Court<\/a>,\u201d which trained wealthy couples as \u201cstealth missionaries\u201d to befriend Supreme Court justices to preserve, in his words, a Christian nation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause, including what he believes was his role in delivering \u201cthe entities that are now inflicting all of this suffering on so many people\u201d\u2014extending to the rise of President Donald Trump. \u201cWe made this terrible deal with Donald Trump because we were already demoralized,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2018\/06\/this-evangelical-pastor-helped-build-the-religious-right-he-now-believes-he-made-a-terrible-mistake-rob-schenck\/\">he told <em>Mother Jones<\/em> in 2018<\/a>. \u201cHe didn\u2019t demoralize us\u2014he is the evidence of our demoralization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, here, braving subzero temperatures, Schenck told me, \u201cI have to do the work of repair.\u201d The video above was taken on Friday, during the city\u2019s \u201cDay of Truth and Freedom\u201d\u2014a citywide strike and march in which clergy played a prominent role. \u201cThese folks are showing more grace in accepting me than I would have ever extended to them,\u201d he said, flanked by organizers shouting, \u201cWhose streets? Our streets!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next day, after learning of federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/breaking-federal-agents-shot-killed-minneapolis-man\/\">agents shooting and killing Alex Pretti<\/a>, Schenck extended his stay in the city. I\u2019ve been following Rob on his journey over the last few days and the clergy\u2019s fight against ICE, which we will feature more of in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is redemption,\u201d he told me. \u201cThis is redemption.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/minneapolis-ice-shooting-clergy-march-rob-schenck-video\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Wong\/Getty; Sam Van Pykeren\/Mother Jones Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. He helped build the religious right in the United States. Now he\u2019s in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to join the clergy\u2019s fight ICE\u2019s siege of the city. \u201cBeing here, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-usa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}