Two further comments (and thanks for your response):
1) I could write pages on the religious liberty issue, but the bottom line is this: it’s clear to me that the Religious Right wants to be able to use their religious beliefs as a reason not to have to obey duly passed laws. For example, businesses can’t refuse services to anyone based o…
Two further comments (and thanks for your response):
1) I could write pages on the religious liberty issue, but the bottom line is this: it’s clear to me that the Religious Right wants to be able to use their religious beliefs as a reason not to have to obey duly passed laws. For example, businesses can’t refuse services to anyone based on their sex, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin (and probably some others in this list). But they can if they claim that it violates their religious beliefs. So their religious beliefs not only “trump” the legislatures, but it also “trumps” any other belief that someone might use (try saying that you don’t want to serve a Black customer in your restaurant because you don’t believe that the races should mix and see how far you get). They simply want special treatment.
2) Trump’s support from the Evangelicals is probably the most amazing about-face that I have seen in a long time (second place would go to the anti-abortion rights groups who, pre-Dobbs, said that abortion policy is a state issue and then immediately post-Dobbs wanted a national ban) and would have severely damaged their credibility in a saner world. For years, their message was basically “the means justifies the ends”. In an instant, it became “the ends justifies the means”.
Two further comments (and thanks for your response):
1) I could write pages on the religious liberty issue, but the bottom line is this: it’s clear to me that the Religious Right wants to be able to use their religious beliefs as a reason not to have to obey duly passed laws. For example, businesses can’t refuse services to anyone based on their sex, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin (and probably some others in this list). But they can if they claim that it violates their religious beliefs. So their religious beliefs not only “trump” the legislatures, but it also “trumps” any other belief that someone might use (try saying that you don’t want to serve a Black customer in your restaurant because you don’t believe that the races should mix and see how far you get). They simply want special treatment.
2) Trump’s support from the Evangelicals is probably the most amazing about-face that I have seen in a long time (second place would go to the anti-abortion rights groups who, pre-Dobbs, said that abortion policy is a state issue and then immediately post-Dobbs wanted a national ban) and would have severely damaged their credibility in a saner world. For years, their message was basically “the means justifies the ends”. In an instant, it became “the ends justifies the means”.