William Lindsey 

Raised in the household of Southern Baptist missionaries to Africa, Holly Berkley Fletcher knows the "pro-life" ethos of white evangelical Trump voters inside out; she used to promote that ethos herself. Now she's calling the bluff of white evangelical "pro-life" folks on the abortion issue:

"Abortion is THE reason white evangelicals have supported Donald Trump, the basis of their devilish bargain."

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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-time-i-was-a-pro-life-activist

The time I was a pro-life activist

Helping people to change their minds

A Zebra Without Stripes
Feb 3 at 5:09pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 3

"At least it’s the one they most often cite, and you would be a fool to take them all at their word. ...

In truth, on the movement level, abortion has always been a fig leaf for other, less defensible issues since the 1970’s, when Religious Right leaders seized on it as a new, politically galvanizing cause, once defending segregation in religious schools became too gauche."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 3

"The Trump years are similarly giving up the white evangelical game. ...

It’s not just about abortion. The fixation on abortion is revealing of larger tendencies in white evangelicalism—prizing order and control, gravitating toward certainty, simplifying moral complexity—that has made those within it susceptible to authoritarianism."

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