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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 05:31 PM Aug 2017

Trumps redesigned culture war

From the article:

......gone are the days when Jerry Falwell, Sr. & Co. could imagine that there was a moral majority out there able to take America back from the feminists, gays, and assorted cultural elites. With the rise of the Nones, the establishment of same-sex marriage as a constitutional right, the availability of abortion by pill, and the normalization of transgender identity, Falwell’s majority came to see itself as the beleaguered minority that lost the culture war.
Enter Donald Trump. On immigration, America First, religious liberty, and now Confederate war memorials, he has harked back to the pre-culture war days, when the issue at hand was civil rights — or, we should say, the maintenance of white supremacy. And woe be unto evangelical leaders who say him nay.


To read more:

http://religionnews.com/2017/08/21/trumps-redesigned-culture-war/
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