GOP REP. MAX MILLER LEARNS BEING A COURT JEW DOESN’T HELP

Speaks out against “Come to Christ or go to hell” tweet and he winds up apologizing!

(Originally published in Stephen Shaiken’s Substack on August 23, 2023. When Substack recommended posting it again, I decided it made more sense to prevent it to a totally different audience. As Trump and the GOP double down on banning freedom of choice for women, and seek to impose a White Christian Nationalist theocracy on an unwilling nation, the story is timely once again. Sadly, poor Max Miller hasn’t figured this out.)

The Background: Ohio Anti-Choice Leader Tweets Classic Antisemitic Tropes About People Who Don’t Worship Christ Being Doomed to Hell

Yahoo News and The Hill, among others, recently reported that Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) tweeted an angry response to a pro-life group communication director’s own tweet that there is “no hope for any of us outside of having faith in Jesus Christ alone.” (She later tweeted that “‘Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me,’” and”No one has hope outside of Jesus Christ and every knee will bow one day declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord.”) Miller asked her to delete the statement. He was forced to apologize!

The tweeter, Lizzie Marbach, is not a minister nor a theologian; she is a professional right wing…