Intelligence Dispatch: Bill Barr to Speak at Right-Wing Catholic Conference
Intelligence Dispatch: Bill Barr to Speak at Right-Wing Catholic Conference
Events on the Right: Napa Institute's Annual Summer Conference, Wallbuilders' Patriot Academy's National Leadership Congress, and CPAC's Texas Conference.
Events on the Right
Napa Institute, a right-wing Catholic foundation, is hosting the organization’s Annual Summer Conference at the Meritage Resort in Napa, California from July 27 - July 31. (Price Tag: $2,700)
Featured Speakers Include: Bill Barr, former U.S. Attorney General; Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center; and Kellie Fiedorek, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom
The agenda includes workshops such as "Liquid Gender and Its Consequences," "Life After Roe: State-Based Efforts to Affirm the Dignity of Women and their Children," and "Staying Awake in a Woke Church."
“The Napa Institute — an organization of growing national religious, financial and political clout, but one that manages to fly largely under the popular radar — is hosting its 12th annual Summer Conference at the Meritage Resort and Spa. It will be a who’s who of Republican politics, and a symphony of conservative messaging.” [The Press Democrat]
Wallbuilders, an organization that advocates for Christian Nationalism, is hosting the Patriot Academy's National Leadership Congress at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas from July 31 - August 6. (Price Tag: $797 - $1197)
Featured Speakers Include: Dinesh D'Souza, right-wing political pundit and conspiracy theorist; Michael Knowles, right-wing media personality; Ben Shapiro, right-wing political commenter and co-founder of The Daily Wire; and David Baron, pseudohistorian Christian Nationalist founder of Wallbuilders
“…Barton and WallBuilders argue that Jefferson and the Founders, outside of some exceptions, meant for the “wall of protection” to operate in one direction. It also, the group and its founder suggested, applies mostly to the federal government, not the states.” [Religion News Service]
Patriot Academy is among several right-wing fundamentalist Christian organizations that provide “biblical citizenship” training at “hundreds of churches to instill the belief that America was founded on Christian values.” [The New York Times]
Eagle Forum, a right-wing fundamentalists Christian advocacy group, and the Leadership Institute, an organization that provides training for conservative activists, are co-hosting the Student Eagle Leadership Conference at the SpringHill Suites in Franklin, Tennessee from July 29 - July 31. (Price Tag: $25)
The conference agenda includes several workshops and digital trainings, which will be presented by several conservative activists.
Eagle Forum is among the right-wing activists groups pushing fringe conspiracy theories about the results of the 2020 election, promoting misinformation about the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine, and agitating for an assortment of and right-wing culture war issues.
Watchmen on the Wall, a project of the far right fundamentalists Christian group Family Research Council, is hosting a Georgia Pastors Briefing at The Grove Level Baptist Church in Maysville, Georgia on July 28.
FRC’s Watchmen on the Wall regularly host events both at churches and online, and provides “tools for pastors” including a “Biblical Worldview Series” series of booklets including “Biblical Principles For Political Engagement,” “Biblical Principles For Human Sexuality,” and “Biblical Principles For Religious Liberty.”
The Grove Level Baptist Church’s statement of beliefs include that the church “reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or the mental well-being of the mother are acceptable, “any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery, and pornography are sinful perversions of God’s gift of sex,” and “creation was a direct act of God, literal 24 hour days, instantaneous, and miraculous.”
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is hosting the CPAC Texas Conference at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas from August 4 - August 7. (Price Tag: $295 - $7,000)
Featured Speakers Include: Donald Trump; Steve Bannon, host of War Room podcast; Seth Dillon, CEO of the Babylon Bee; George Farmer, CEO of Parler; and several current and former Republican lawmakers.
Viktor Orbán, the right-wing authoritarian Prime Minister of Hungary, remains scheduled to speak at CPAC Texas, “despite his recent comments which prompted a long-time ally to resign from his government and compare his comments to Nazism.” [Bloomberg]
