…moved beyond forbidding discrimination and creating protected categories of innate characteristics like race, gender, sexual orientation, and the like, to creating behavioral-protected categories like sexual behavior, bodily behaviors like abortion…
…most of the classical Protestant world that abortion and euthanasia were evils and should be opposed. Hitherto, including right after Roe vs. Wade, many classical Protestants had dismissed these as…
…I don’t know as he has any. Currently he is still going along with efforts to restrict abortion, but I doubt that is because of any conviction other than ‘he…
…like abortion ‘rights’ for minors, ‘death with dignity’, and things of that kind? Can they not allow the religions (and their people of color tend to be religious) to define…
…use the pleasantly alliterative slogan “Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion” against McGovern, but he was not observed shedding any tears when the Supreme Court, right after his second inauguration, declared abortion…
…culture wars rose to the surface, as Michael Lind pointed out, partly because of the weakening of the Religious Right. Abortion, divorce, and homosexuality had little to do with immigrant…
…abortion were. For explanations of how people choose which ‘religious’ laws should be enforced or supported, I recommend The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. This view leads to my odd…
…that Schaeffer himself, in his last years, failed to pay attention to it. His contribution to the ‘religious right’ was to raise the issues of abortion and euthanasia, most especially…
…really began to surface. Though Nixon’s team used the slogan of “Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion” against McGovern, not long after McGovern was defeated, Roe vs Wade was enacted, partly by…
…Aldous Huxley in another post, we compensate for it by expanding sexual freedom [and I would add the ‘freedom’ of abortion and doctor-assisted suicide and other beginning and end-of-life issues],…