A Historically Questionable Christian Movement Could Soon Be Taught in Texas Schools

Bill Cook had a request for the crowd gathered before him just outside the U.S. Capitol. “I don’t think many—enough—of you have heard of the Black Robe Regiment,” he said to attendees of that day’s Jericho March rally, a Christian nationalist gathering challenging the 2020 election results that presaged the riots that would break out nearby a few weeks later, on January 6, 2021. “But if you have, lift your hands.”Seemingly satisfied his audience was with him, Cook, wearing a red MAGA cap and a black Oath Keepers militia T-shirt, railed against COVID-19 mask mandates and church-state separation and pointed to colonial-era clergy—members of the so-called Black Robe Regiment—who he claimed had led the American Revolution and would presumably have happily battled such modern-day tyranny.…

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