“I’ve got news for you: The Supreme Court isn’t the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court answers to the Supreme Court. Jesus is the Supreme Court, because Jesus is LORD!” Pastor Steve Gaines #SBC18 #SBCEC #Jesus
— Calvary Baptist (@CBCRapidCity) June 11, 2018
It’s easy to dismiss this as the empty, whistling-past-the-graveyard bombast of eccentrics, but it is an underhanded urging to civil disobedience as well. As the loonies of the Evangelical Right are inexorably forced to the margins of our public life, they will inevitably invoke “a higher court” to justify their nihilistic vandalism.