Supreme Court decision is 'tactical' — and has nothing to do with the law: former Christian...

Frank Schaeffer told Joy Reid of MSNBC's The ReidOut on Friday that his father, Francis Schaefer, "was really the grandfather of the whole anti-abortion movement in terms of evangelicals that morphed into the Christian nationalist movement that has taken over the Republican party." This is the same Schaeffer who told Raw Story in 2009 he had concerns about the radicalization of the Christian right, and the increasingly violent rhetoric he foresaw turning into actual violence.

Schaeffer told Reid these are "not legal rulings."

"None of these are," he said Friday. "This is political machination and planning by the hard-core Christians nationalists in the GOP using people like Judge Kacsmaryk and Alito and Thomas, and it has nothing to do with our traditions of law or the separation of church and state."