Legal wins for the Christian Right are happening at a time when a growing majority of Americans are strongly opposed to their views. | via NPR
These legal wins for the Christian Right, though, are happening at a time when a growing majority of Americans are strongly opposed to their views.
Of course, the Constitution does explicitly ban the establishment of a specific religion. It's in the First Amendment. "When they said things like 'We are the moral majority,' there was a kind of truth to that – even if it wasn't a demographic truth," he said."If you look at some of the issues, for example, like same-sex marriage, most of the country agreed with them."
Fulbright has spent almost a decade advocating for the rights of LGBTQ people, as well as abortion rights, in Texas. She said in the past few years Republican state lawmakers have been crossing a line — making the case for laws by citing Christian ideas. Whitaker, who created his group to counteract less tolerant strains of evangelicalism, said decades of this sort of campaigning has amounted to an immense amount of influence, particularly in the Republican Party.
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