Assclown Alert is a column of opinion, analysis and snark.
First, let’s say this: it’s an absolute relief that Christian Nationalist state Rep. Nate Schatzline isn’t seeking another term in the Texas Legislature.
However, that relief is counterbalanced by the unfortunate news that this squawking shithead has accepted a position with the National Faith Advisory Board, created by televangelist and Trump White House advisor Paula White-Cain to fight alleged discrimination against religious people.
Par for the course with Schatzline, just two days after his appointment to a group ostensibly about preventing discrimination against people of faith, he took to his Wake Up Church podcast to unleash a torrent of Islamophobic conspiracy theories.
During the podscast, first reported on by Right Wing Watch, Schatzline — a former pastor at Mercy Culture Church — asserted that Islam is ”a death cult” and that Muslims in public office are involved in a shadowy bid to take over the government and enslave Christians. Why? Because “the Muslim false god of Allah commands Muslims to lie,” he asserted.
“[I]n 50 to 100 years, maybe sooner, when Islam rules as the prime law of the land and we see things like the Ten Commandments and our biblical foundation thrown out the window, then Christians and Jews are in complete submission to the Muslims in power, because they control our social welfare programs,” Schatzline said.
But don’t call that claim a conspiracy theory, he cautioned. “I’m trying to expose the evil and the darkness that is surrounding this.”
If there’s any consolation to be had it’s that Schatzline, for all his bile and bigotry, was a dud of lawmaker.
After being elected in 2022 as a Republican representing a Tarrant County district, Schatzline filed a flurry of culture war-focused bills, most of which never got a hearing and only two of which passed, according to the Texas Observer. The fact that he’s throwing in his towel on elected office so soon suggests his second term didn’t amount to much either.
Let’s hope this assclown’s tenure with National Faith Advisory Board proves to be a similarly pathetic flameout.
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