Shorter Right-Wing Plea: "Please Go Burn Down These Churches."

The New Hampshire Council of Churches is concerned a list of so-called "woke" churches could be used to target those with inclusive beliefs.

The list of New Hampshire churches singles out congregations that have displayed rainbow symbols, condemned racism or supported COVID mitigation measures, among other things. The libertarian Free State Project shared the list on Twitter last week.

In a statement Tuesday, the Council of Churches expressed concern that certain churches could be harassed because of their beliefs, noting that “hate and white supremacist activity” has been occurring in New Hampshire.

Let's be clear on this: The use of the term "woke" by the Right has become a codeword of hate. You rarely hear people on the other side of the spectrum using the term nowadays, for they know that it has become the latest brickbat of the far-Right. It's all as Lee Atwater once explained.[1]

By now, it's become clear to anyone who is not a tRumpanzee that there is a bunch of loons with guns[2] who are ready and able to act on those codewords to terrorize people. If it happens to any of those churches, you can bet your next paycheck that those "libertarians" will express shock and horror.[3] On one level, they might even believe it, but deep down, you have to know that they'll be smiling after the fire's put out.
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[1] The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger."
[2] Or cans of gasoline and a lighter.
[3] It's also clear, now, that the Right's commitment to free speech has been, as always, limited to saying things that they approve of. Just like their concept of freedom of religion only extend to the churches of the Christian Taliban.