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February 14, 2022 01:02 PM UTC

Liked Pat Neville? You'll LOVE Billy Jack

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  • by: Colorado Pols
GOP HD-45 candidate and Vexatious Litigant for Jesus Bill Jack.

As readers may know, among the many eras in Colorado politics set to end with the 2022 elections is that of the Neville Clan holding office–and at one time vying for total control–of the Colorado Republican Party, leading figures in a cabal allied with Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and a sprinkling of fringe religious groups like infamous Pastor Steve Grant of Greeley’s Destiny Christian Center.

Although former House Minority Leader Patrick Neville is termed out of office next January, the no-apologies toxic-by-design politics Neville once embraced controversially have become the normal state of play for today’s Republican Party–to the extent that Neville doesn’t even stand out like he once did. With that said, in Pat Neville’s hand-picked successor, we have a replacement promising to take the debate in the legislature to foul new lows that could make even Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt blush:

Bill Jack has loved living in Castle Rock for nearly 25 years. He is an educator, biblical worldview trainer, dad, and grandfather.

With ten years of experience in public schools and 14 years with The Caleb Campaign, a biblically-based youth ministry, Bill has a passion for training people in a biblical view of government, law, and liberty. Bill is a co-founder of Worldview Academy, a Christian leadership training program for students, and also serves on the board of TeenPact, a biblically-based leadership training program in government and the political process for students…

How does Bill Jack live out his “passion for training people in a biblical view of government,” you ask? Owning those libs, of course! As Mother Jones reported in 2018 during the war over gay cake-baking that climaxed (for now) with the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission Supreme Court decision:

In 2014, a man named William Jack paid a visit to Azucar Bakery in Denver. There, Jack demanded two cakes, both in the shape of an open Bible. On one, he wanted “Homosexuality is a detestable sin – Leviticus 18:22” written on one side of the Bible and “God hates sin Psalm 45:7” on the other. On the second cake, he asked the bakery to inscribe “God loves sinners” and “While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Romans 5:8” and to include an iced illustration of two men holding hands in front of a cross, covered with what Jack described as a “Ghostbusters symbol,” a red circle with a line through it to indicate that such unions are “un-Biblical.”

Bill Jack’s lame attempt to conflate his right to hate with a business’s right to not participate in hate, which (once again for the record) is not morally equivalent to protecting people from discrimination in public accommodation, was nonetheless enough for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to cite in his opinion against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission in the Masterpeice Cakeshop case. That made William Jack something of a star along with Colorado’s original anti-gay cakeman Jack Phillips.

But be assured, via Right Wing Watch, Jack’s Bible-thumping agenda doesn’t stop there:

On his radio program today, extremist anti-LGBTQ pastor Kevin Swanson and his co-host Bill Jack declared that “sexualized public schools that violate God’s law with high levels of flagrancy” should be burned to the ground…

Swanson and Jack agreed that if parents from the 1950s saw what was happening in the schools today, “they would want to burn them down.”

“They would burn them down,” Jack said. “They would tear the bricks out of the walls, they would use the bricks to stone the apostates.” [Pols emphasis]

Plenty of responses come to mind, least of all being that schools cost money so let’s not burn them down? That’s just one of many good reasons we can think of for neither burning schools nor stoning “apostates” (whoever they are) with the bricks from schools. Negative effects to be avoided from clearly swearing off this policy include children not being in school and/or dying either in fires or impact with the business end of a brick.

Once again, if it’s necessary to explain something this basic, please don’t run for office.

Too late again, we guess.

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22 thoughts on “Liked Pat Neville? You’ll LOVE Billy Jack”

  4. Jesus loves vexatious lawsuits

    Crackpot lawsuits brought by loons

    Batshit crazy and uptight

    They are precious in his sight

    Jesus loves vexatious lawsuits brought by loons

  5. 1) On the Masterpiece Cake controversy, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.  It is quite comical to see a post (a) becoming outraged when Person X demands Person Y bake a cake on topic Z that is offensive to Person Y; but (b) thinking it is perfectly fine (if not courageous!) for Person A to demand Person B bake a cake on topic C that is offensive to Person B.  

    2) On burning schools down….yikes.  I'd want to see if the comment was taken out of context though.

    2. 1.  As I recall, the request for a wedding cake had no words — certainly not a "this is a GAY wedding and it's okay" statement.  I don't believe there was a request for two "groom" figures to be stuck on the cake.  Had only one person gone into the shop and given the order, I suspect Jack Phillips would have made the cake, collected his fee, and never would have known it was for a reception for a same-sex couple.

      2.  Bill Jack's request was not for a cake equivalent to every other cake the bakery produced.  He was not refused on the basis of who he was, but on the basis of an explicit message. 

      3.  I'm a bit confused by someone claiming they want a Biblical world view AND want to go to court to defend "ownership" of something like a cake. The church I was raised in read the New Testament over and over, including

      Matthew 5:40 “And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.”

       

      1. The church you were raised in equated Christianity as having something to do with the words of Jesus??? . . .

        . . . talk about “from the 1950s”!

        (. . . Musta’ attended that First Church of the RINO Jesus?  Bet you didn’t even have The Blessing of the Assault Rifles.  Definitely not today’s divinely inspired true-believer fundamentalists.)

  9. “Bill Jack is an educator, biblical worldview trainer”

    You cannot use educator and biblical in the same sentence.

    One believes in helping people become more knowledgeable and the other believes that a work of fiction is factual.

    1. An interesting point of view, davebarnes.  Seems to me you are dismissing the efforts of a wide variety of religious educators based on your certain understanding of "knowledge" and "religion." 

       

      2. The Bible sets forth a set of myths. Nothing more, nothing less. It is fine to share those myths in the home or a church, but their dissemination can no more be considered a form of education than would be the dogmas of the Druids.

        It's helpful for students to learn a broad overview of the spectrum of religious beliefs that characterize human societies and communities, but schools are a place to teach academic skills and not fantasy, at least not to the extent of urging kids to believe those fantasies.

        We live in the real world, not the dreamscape of propagandists motivated to control the thoughts and values of others. 

        1. "set of myths……." Not quite, if one wants to split hairs. There is some historical record for the books of Maccabees. Flavius Josephus mentioned John the Baptist in his still extant writings and did say one paragraph about Jesus Christ.

          Otherwise I generally agree with you.

        1. True Buddhism is not evil.  Unitarian/universalism is not evil.  Reform judaism is not evil.

          And there are no doubt other benign religions.
          Your bigotry is reprehensible, Dave.

  10. I don't know why this is so hard to understand: keep your damn religion out of government. 

    You are free to believe what you want. You are not free to push it on other people through the law or, at least, we should assure that our legislatures do not fall prey to the theocratic dreams of "Christian" fascists.

    This guy is a nut. A dangerous one. Unfortunately, he is running in Castle Rock, which is not known for moderation or much in the way of civic engagement or awareness among the residents, who are pretty busy commuting 15 or 20 miles each way to work every day and otherwise hiding in their suburban houses.

     

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