Jesus at the superbowl: Who's behind the "He gets us" campaign. Come-ons for lies. Politics

[lindysalsagal]

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/jesus-at-the-super-bowl?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

This was sent to my email so it's OK to post.

The Servant Foundation does not disclose its donor list for the campaign. But one benefactor decided not to remain anonymous: David Green, the billionaire co-founder of Hobby Lobby, who claims to be a big contributor to the effort. Hobby Lobby is known for actively supporting anti-LGBTQ legislation and for years fought a case, eventually all the way to the Supreme Court, that ultimately permitted companies to deny medical coverage for contraception based upon the company’s religious beliefs.

While the He Gets Us website states, “Be assured… we’re not ‘left’ or ‘right’ or a political organization of any kind,” and “We’re also not affiliated with any particular church or denomination,” it has strong theological ties to something called the Lausanne Covenant. On its outreach site, the campaign acknowledges as much, saying at the very bottom, quite tucked away, that “we generally recognize the Lausanne Covenant as reflective of the spirit and intent of this movement” and that “churches that partner with explorers from He Gets Us affirm the Lausanne Covenant.” But this is no progressive, non-denominational covenant. It was begun in 1974 by the evangelical preacher Billy Graham, and it denounces “disordered sexuality” and defines marriage as between one man and one woman, while focusing heavily on alleged satanic impact on culture.

But it’s not just who is backing the Servant Foundation that is troubling. It’s what they’re doing with their money. According to reporting by Andrew Perez at The Lever, the Servant Foundation bankrolls not only these pricey ad campaigns but conservative organizations currently spearheading efforts to roll back abortion rights and legalize discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community. Between 2018-2020, the Servant Foundation donated more than $50 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom, which helped draft Mississippi’s abortion law that resulted in the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion. The ADF is leading a case before the Supreme Court this term arguing that businesses should have a right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ customers, and it has advised and helped draft scores of hateful anti-trans laws across the nation. It is also currently involved in the fight to ban the abortion medication mifepristone nationwide—a case that might be decided by a Texas federal court as early as this week—that could impact more than half the abortions performed in the U.S.

Taken together, the He Gets Us ad campaign portraying Jesus as progressive revolutionary is a dangerous Trojan horse intended to capture and sway the spiritually curious into supporting a radical right-wing, Christian agenda. The creators and backers of the campaign aren’t remotely interested in the social justice interests of their potential viewers—only their dollars and eventually their votes. It’s a campaign as underhanded as they come, and we should call out its duplicity wherever the campaign airs or appears.

[Ocelot II]

1. Gotta wonder what Jesus would have done with that $20 million.

You can buy a lot of loaves and fishes with that kind of money.

[Irish_Dem]

3. If he had advertised during half time at the colosseums, things would have gone better for him?

[hlthe2b]

2. Yeah... Start with relatively innocuous ads--even those that defend the rights of immigrants--

and then use that for cover to convince lawmakers to pass all manner of religious-based bigoted measures and policies.

Who is behind this needs to be widely disseminated.

[MadameButterfly]

4. i knew it in my gut

democrats don't do this kind of evangelizing and they don't need to hide what they are really about