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We live in interesting times. The dissolution of the alliance between white US Catholics, their bishops appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict, and white evangelicals is going to make for some serious fireworks, when the Republican party for some years now has managed to convince white Catholics that voting GOP was their religious duty.

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What was unexpected: an American pope who would begin breaking that alliance and insisting that the US Catholic bishops, a majority of whom are comfortable with the alliance, start questioning whether it reflects real Christian, real Catholic, values. Ditto for the challenge to the 6 in 10 white Catholics who have voted three times for Trump.

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What has energized this movement all along has been resistance to rights for people of color, women, and LGBTQ people. This alliance laid the foundation for someone like Trump to come along and claim that God is using him to save the nation — when anyone with any real sense of Christian faith knows how blasphemous and ludicrous that claim is.

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In the 1970s, with white Southern evangelicals outraged that the Democratic party had passed laws recognizing the rights of people of color, the US Catholic bishops made a fateful move: they allied themselves with those white evangelicals and created a Religious Right movement that became an arm of the Republican party.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 26

A quotation from George Carlin

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the Unborn. They will do anything for the Unborn. But once you’re born, you’re on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don’t want to know about you. They don’t want to hear from you. No nothing. No neo-natal care. No daycare. No Head Start. No school lunch. No food stamps. No welfare. No nothing. If you’re pre-born you’re fine. If you’re pre-school, you’re fucked.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Show (1996-03-29), Back in Town, “Abortion,” Beacon Theatre, New York City (HBO)

More about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/80474/

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Show (1996-03-29), Back in Town, "Abortion," Beacon Theatre, New York City (HBO) - Carlin, George | WIST Quotations

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the Unborn. They will do anything for the Unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don't want to know about…

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Claire McNab Nov 16

The #religiousright controlled #Ireland until very recently. And very brutally. They locked women away for decades, and put children in industrial rape camps

The poet #SarahClancy writes here about how they have lost control, and now try to portray themselves as victims.

Nobody is restricting the freedom of Ireland's #religioustaliban to live their own lives as they see fit. Their whiney campaign is to regain their brutal control of everyone else's lives.

https://clarechampion.ie/opinion-the-religious-right-havent-gone-away/ #iepol

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Oct 17

"By the 1970s, the public association of southern white churches with segregationism had damaged the image of the Christian Right. In adopting the antiabortion struggle, evangelicals saw themselves as engaged in a battle for the civil rights of the unborn—a new conflict every bit as morally weighty as the struggle against slavery or Jim Crow."

~ Ibid., pp. 103-4