The Family Research Council (FRC) is trying to raise the alarm about Nancy Abudu’s nomination to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Abudu is employed by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has labeled FRC and other groups that hold to Biblical definitions of sexuality as hate groups.
In an official letter to Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), FRC and other co-signers caution the Senate Judiciary Committee about the SPLC and its dubious history that Abudu represents.
Signed by FRC Vice President Lt. General (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, the letter states: “Ms. Abudu works for a disreputable organization that has no business being a feeder for positions to any judicial office—not even of a traffic court—let alone the second highest court system in the United States. She is a political activist, not a jurist, and is unfit to serve at the federal appellate level.”
As the strategic litigation director for the SPLC, Abudu has led the group’s voting rights efforts and has “litigated a variety of civil rights cases in federal and state courts, including challenges to state felon disenfranchisement, proof of citizenship and voter photo ID laws.”
The SPLC was initially founded to identify white supremacist groups and to sue the KluKluxKlan in the 1970s. However, over the ensuing decades the organization has drifted from targeting noted racist groups to using its platform to attack conservative, pro-life, Christian and traditional marriage-based organizations, labeling them as hate groups.
Using these inaccurate and ideologically motivated labels, SPLC and LGBTQ activists have pressured media outlets and large businesses across the country to deny politically and socially conservative groups access to certain resources. For example, FRC supporters cannot use Amazon Smile to donate a percentage of their purchase to the conservative pro-family organization, since Amazon has labeled the FRC a hate group under the SPLC’s guidance. A tech company also dropped FRC, citing the SPLC’s hate map.
FRC knows firsthand how potentially deadly such falsehoods can be. In 2012, a man targeted the FRC’s office building in Washington D.C., with the intention of committing mass murder after FRC showed up on SPLC’s “hate list.” Thankfully no one was killed in the attack, though the building manager was injured while stopping the man.
“Any group that disagrees with the SPLC about positions it advocates is deemed to be evil and worthy of destruction,” Boykin noted.
FRC points out that “Abudu’s acceptance of a senior litigation management role inside America’s largest political defamation factory disqualifies her from any position in which she would be expected to serve as an impartial arbiter of facts and laws.”
In addition to its efforts to silence certain conservative groups, in 2019 the SPLC fired co-founder Morris Dees over alleged sexual misconduct and, ironically, racism.
When it comes to the court systems, judges have been increasingly placed in a position to administer decisions on critically important topics and legislation, as Congress and even presidential administrations bypass the normal legislative process to push executive orders and administrative rules. As a result, the implications of federal judicial appointments have never been more significant.
“[J]ust as Trump chose extremely conservative nominees,” New Jersey-based lawyer David Lat explained in the Los Angeles Times. “Biden is selecting extremely liberal nominees. Lacking an organization as influential as the Federalist Society to verify ideological bona fides, his administration has shrewdly found professional proxies for progressive politics, turning to fields whose practitioners tend to be very liberal: public defenders, public-interest lawyers and attorneys representing labor unions. It’s too early to say anything definitive, but I predict Biden’s judges will be the most liberal since President Carter’s.”
HD Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?
Nancy Abudu is not the only nominee from the Biden administration who raised eyebrows for their extreme positions.
Biden’s nominee for comptroller of the currency, Saule Omarova, withdrew her name from consideration after facing backlash in her confirmation hearing over her radical and communist-style views on the banking sector.
Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s pick and now head of the Bureau of Land Management, garnered much attention for her past actions in which she referred to children as an “environmental hazard” and committed acts of eco-terrorism through “tree spiking.”
Xavier Becerra, the president’s now confirmed nominee for Health and Human Services, was also a radical pick. Pro-Life groups and republicans were staunchly against his confirmation due to his “enthusiastic support of abortion up until the moment of birth,” LGBT advocacy, and his support for the socialist-style “government-run Medicare-for-all.”
The nominee and now assistant for Health and Human Services is transgender Dr. Richard “Rachel” Levine, a biological male who identifies as female. Since being placed in the position, Levine urged the acceleration of cross-sex hormones to homeless teens.
These nominations and others demonstrate the Biden administration’s goal to place the most radically progressive persons as possible in top positions in the United States.
Furthermore, Appeals Courts across the country have seen numerous cases surrounding religious freedom, especially as our culture becomes more hostile toward believers in Jesus and their deeply held standards of Biblical morality.
The nomination of Nancy Abudu to the 11th circuit, a person employed by a group that believes Biblical views on sexuality are akin to hateful extremism, further reveals that the Biden administration would like nothing more than to purge the United States Christian convictions and values.
David Fiorazo, in a recent article, stated that while “even some Democrats think the country is not being managed properly,” if people continue voting for these far-left leaders and lawmakers, there will be “more chaos, division, godlessness, communist policy, Marxism and anti-American agendas.”
“I’ve said this so many times; forgive my being redundant,” Fioazo wrote. “At the risk of oversimplifying, this worldview war is about power, and it all comes down to three words: God or man.”
The Bible states that in the time prior to Jesus’ return, “men of corrupt minds” will “resist the truth” and be “reprobate concerning the faith” (2 Timothy 3:1,8-9). Furthermore, this chapter states that, during this time, “all who live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution” (2 Timothy 3:12-13).
Our society has used aggressive efforts to demonize Biblical morals, suppress the truth, and stripe away constitutionally protected Religious freedoms, just as the apostle Paul warned.
