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You might think the most seismic fake conversion of all time was Donald Trump pretending to be a pro-life Christian conservative. (If you sprinkled holy water on him once a fortnight, the resulting chemical reaction could likely provide cheap, renewable energy for a mid-sized American city.)
Well, according to a new FX documentary, Trumpâs Constantine-like conversion is not the biggest nor phoniest of the past several decades.
The documentary, AKA Jane Roe, chronicles the public life of Norma McCorvey, who became famous as plaintiff Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which made abortion safe and legal across the country.
However, in her later years, encouraged by a cabal of evangelical right-wingers, McCorvey appeared to hew to the pro-life cause.
The Daily Beast:
Youâd think a movement supposedly predicated on truth, justice, and the American way would be a little more, uh, honest. But right-wing Christians havenât done honest since ⌠well, I canât recall when they ever did, really.
And itâs not like they were plying her with coffee and muffins. According to The Daily Beast, the documentary reveals that McCorvey received at least $456,911 in âbenevolent giftsâ from anti-choicers.
So, yeah, more bullshit from the biggest bullshitters in modern history.
Whether itâs Jim Bakker selling silver solution as a coronavirus cure or preachers paying off an icon to fake the latter part of her life, itâs all part of the same shifty grift.
Now if only Donald Trump would come clean.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Oh, silly Aldous. You cray.
$456,911.00 In "Benevolent Gifts" can buy a lot of "Truth"
Well, according to a new FX documentary, Trumpâs Constantine-like conversion is not the biggest nor phoniest of the past several decades.
The documentary, AKA Jane Roe, chronicles the public life of Norma McCorvey, who became famous as plaintiff Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which made abortion safe and legal across the country.
However, in her later years, encouraged by a cabal of evangelical right-wingers, McCorvey appeared to hew to the pro-life cause.
The Daily Beast:
Sounds inspiring if you believe Adam and Eve road out of Eden on tricked-out velociraptors. But thatâs apparently not the whole story.[C]onservatives had a field day in the mid-â90s when the assertive, media-savvy pro-choice advocate and activist McCorvey became an anti-abortion born-again ex-gay Christian with the help of leaders of the evangelical Christian right, Reverend Flip Benham (of the infamous Operation Rescue) and Reverend Rob Schenck. A conservative film, Roe v. Wade, starring Jon Voight and Stacey Dash, will dramatize McCorveyâs âconversion.â
Whoopsie.In the final third of director Nick Sweeneyâs 79-minute documentary, featuring many end-of-life reflections from McCorveyâwho grew up queer, poor, and was sexually abused by a family member her mother sent her to live with after leaving reform schoolâthe former Jane Roe admits that her later turn to the anti-abortion camp as a born-again Christian was âall an act.â
âThis is my deathbed confession,â she chuckles, sitting in a chair in her nursing home room, on oxygen. Sweeney asks McCorvey, âDid [the evangelicals] use you as a trophy?â âOf course,â she replies. âI was the Big Fish.â âDo you think you would say that you used them?â Sweeney responds. âWell,â says McCorvey, âI think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they took me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say. Thatâs what Iâd say.â
Youâd think a movement supposedly predicated on truth, justice, and the American way would be a little more, uh, honest. But right-wing Christians havenât done honest since ⌠well, I canât recall when they ever did, really.
And itâs not like they were plying her with coffee and muffins. According to The Daily Beast, the documentary reveals that McCorvey received at least $456,911 in âbenevolent giftsâ from anti-choicers.
So, yeah, more bullshit from the biggest bullshitters in modern history.
Whether itâs Jim Bakker selling silver solution as a coronavirus cure or preachers paying off an icon to fake the latter part of her life, itâs all part of the same shifty grift.
Now if only Donald Trump would come clean.
Ha ha ha ha ha!
Oh, silly Aldous. You cray.
New documentary reveals Jane Roe's late-life conversion was 'an act' paid for by anti-choicers
You might think the most seismic fake conversion of all time was Donald Trump pretending to be a pro-life Christian conservative. (If you sprinkled holy water on him once a fortnight, the resulting chemical reaction could likely provide cheap,...
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$456,911.00 In "Benevolent Gifts" can buy a lot of "Truth"