Posted on 11/09/2021 1:02:27 PM PST by KingofZion
A decade or two ago, no one had trouble figuring out what White evangelical Christians wanted from the federal government. Alongside supply-siders and national security hawks, they made up the triumvirate of the GOP base and were willing to embrace their allies’ economic and foreign policy positions to ensure support for abortion restrictions and anti-gay policies. (During the Cold War, they were enthusiastic partners with national security hawks in the battle against godless communism.)
Conservative commentator and evangelical Christian David A. French acknowledges in a piece for the Dispatch: “We know that opposition to abortion rights motivates white Evangelicals far less than their leaders’ rhetoric would suggest. Eastern Illinois University’s Ryan Burge, one of the nation’s leading statisticians of American religion, has noted, for example, that immigration drove Evangelical support for [Donald] Trump more than abortion.”
As for gay rights, the Public Religion Research Institute’s annual values survey shows a majority of White evangelical Christians still oppose gay marriage, but that “substantial majorities in every major religious group favor nondiscrimination laws that protect LGBTQ people, ranging from 59% among white evangelical Protestants to 92% among religiously unaffiliated Americans.” Moreover, even opposition to gay marriage is declining because of a massive generational divide on the issue between older evangelicals and more tolerant millennials and Generation Xers.
So what, then, do these voters want? Many essentially see politics as a great battle between White, Christian America and the multiracial, religiously diverse reality of 21st century America. They want someone to help them win that existential fight. Government is there not to produce legislative fixes to real-world problems but to engage their enemies on behalf of White Christianity.
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Washington Post is doing everything it can to divide America.
Right now the only people who can’t participate in the wedding biz are traditional Christians. This is wrong and has nothing to do with race.
My Pastor made a brilliant observation last Sunday- “The only time the world applauds Christianity is when it compromises.”
The term Evangelical is lost. It means everything from true conservative to woke hipster.
Ms Rubin, bless her heart, knows what the evangelicals really want.
I frankly don’t care or want to know a person’s sexual past times. I am willing to live and let live as long as the fetish freaks leave me and mine alone. Don’t F with me or my children and we will all get along fine.
The fringe Left is now in power and they have identified their enemies. They are going to go after Christians. The Left will criminalize white conservatives, and criminalize Freedom of religion.
Lesson to be learned: Never let them take your guns.
Not all Evangelicals are conservatives in the first place. Rubin is an idiot. A vicious idiot maybe. But still an idiot.
Jennifer Rubin and David French.....two insignificant losers who struggle to make themselves relevant. How quaint.
“Anybody man of god who disagrees with her is a racist.”
Well, that’s just step one, to scapegoat us. This was never about defeating Christians politically. It’s about moving society to the point where everyone else will go along with exterminating us.
As a Christian I would feel uncomfortable trying to describe the political activity of certain Jewish sects.
From the pen of the synagouge of satan.
We should always refer to David French as St. Massengill.
And for that matter, Dan Crenshaw as the Pirate Who Doesn’t Do Anything.
What does French know about ANYTHING, except cruises and grifting?
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