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Not all Evangelicals are Right-leaning Republicans. But according to polls 73 percent are. That\u2019s the folks I\u2019m talking about here.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
No one sane disputes the fact that the\u00a0base of the base<\/em>\u00a0of the Republican Party \u2014 post Roe V Wade<\/em>\u00a0and with a big \u201cassist\u201d from my late Religious Right leader father\u00a0Francis\u00a0Schaeffer<\/a>\u00a0and me (before I\u00a0changed my mind<\/a>) \u2014 is evangelical voters. No one sane disputes the fact that the Republican Party is funded these days mainly by\u00a0a handful of billionaires<\/a>\u00a0with a vested interest in seeing that government does their economic will. No one sane disputes the fact that this attempt to work the billionaires\u2019 economic will has little-to-nothing\u00a0to do with the core \u201cfamily values\u201d and \u201cpro-life\u201d issues that motivate the vast swath of Right wing-leaning evangelical voters.\u00a0And no one sane disputes the fact that in the old days voters disagreed over policy but mostly agreed on basic facts from which\u00a0policy\u00a0would be derived.<\/div>\n
Not any more.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
These days the Right disputes the facts from how life evolved to unemployment numbers to where the President was born. For instance the Right disputes the\u00a0reality\u00a0of climate change and our human contributions to that change. \u00a0Evangelicals have mostly \u00a0signed up for this often\u00a0oil and coal companies-funded \u00a0alternative view of \u201creality\u201d because their theology teaches them to reject the \u201cworld\u201d and look for some other explanation of the cosmos and everything in it than that offered by science.<\/div>\n
In other words for those who reject the science of evolution \u2014 or reject the\u00a0science\u00a0on how people become\u00a0heterosexual\u00a0or homosexual, or the economic facts as to why women have abortions (48 percent fall below the poverty line), or what an embryo is, \u00a0or if the biblical account is literally true and so on \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0it is easy to embrace other alternative \u201cexplanations.\u201d This is especially true for those who see themselves as an embattled\u00a0persecuted\u00a0minority\u00a0of\u00a0victims\u00a0of \u201cliberalism.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Not all Evangelicals are Right-leaning Republicans. But according to polls 73 percent are. That\u2019s the folks I\u2019m talking about here. No one sane disputes the fact that the\u00a0base of the base\u00a0of the Republican Party \u2014 post Roe V Wade\u00a0and with a big \u201cassist\u201d from my late Religious Right leader father\u00a0Francis\u00a0Schaeffer\u00a0and me (before I\u00a0changed my mind) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nHow the Evangelicals Doomed the Republican Party, God and (Maybe) America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not all Evangelicals are Right-leaning Republicans. But according to polls 73 percent are. 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