On the ReidOut show of 9/1/2021, Frank Schaeffer talks about the roots and agenda of the religious right.
They started with segregation. Under Jimmy Carter, the IRS removed the tax breaks for private religious schools that did not integrate. Not a good look so they invented the “pro-life” movement. It was really fake family values, thinly veiled misogyny, keep women in their place movement -- it wasn`t about abortion -- they decided that they could take that energy and bring new voters to the Republican Party. They have become an American Taliban that is weirdly similar in so many ways to the Middle Eastern Islamist terrorists. A few years ago, some of the Islamic terrorist activists in Pakistan and other countries were murdering vaccine doctors and nurses who were coming in to try to vaccinate against polio, with some mythological conspiracy theories about how this was part of the U.S. government plot. The evangelical voter in Texas who backed Donald Trump is now also the voter who is calling vaccines some sort of government conspiracy. Their goal is theocracy, which means to take their religious beliefs, which for them are Old Testament law, not Christianity, and force secular Americans, non-evangelical Americans, progressive Americans, women, people of color into that box
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