SEC Charges Ken Paxton With Securities Fraud

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15. Paxton Receives the Tea Party's Blessings At A Grapevine Church

https://www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-prays-for-tea-partys-blessing-at-grapevine-baptist-church/
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But the exiled peoples of the Bible were not powerful men who had lost — or in Paxton’s case, won — elections. They were not mainstream religious congregants offended by changes in civil law. The problems that Paxton portends are just not that great a threat to the American godly: Even if they were, the correctives Paxton has yet offered don’t seem all that audacious, anyway.

Paxton would like to be a biblical hero. But it is he and his friends, not his “enemies,” who enjoy most of the high offices of state. Paxton is the law; he holds the title of highest-ranking legal official in Texas. These congregants, too, judge themselves to have inherited the Jews’ transcendent pain of exile. But they leave their lovely church smiling, walking with their lovely families to return unmolested to their big Texan automobiles.

Is Texas really hedonistic, predatory Babylon? Grapevine doesn’t much look it, although it’s true that the Grapevine GrapeFest, a festival centered around heavy wine consumption, was taking place just across the street. Nebuchadnezzar would have loved it, probably.