A lot of American Christianity is avoiding cognitive dissonance about matters of race, class, and gender by hyper-fixating on abortion, as well as demonizing secular people and portraying churches as besieged castles, under attack from those evil non-believers (who are definitely going to Hell!).
It’s so unfortunate, since — as written — abortion is an element knitted into the rest of the Church’s social concerns. It could be a connecting link to those concerns. It is for me, if I’m honest. But that’s not how people think, I guess.
Yes, and as you know, when you say such things, you risk being called a "seamless garment Catholic" (derogatory for some reason).
Anyone asinine enough to bundle in their sense of self genuine moral concerns like abortion with vaudeville nonsense like bathrooms and kids with purple hair and weird pronouns is really not worth my time. If that makes me a twat, so be it.
As well as “the attack on the American family” by letting gay people marry and adopt. You can’t vote for the Democrats. You’re endorsing something God calls abominable. You *must* be a Republican to defend the family.
Oh yes, and Obergefell really broke their brains. Then Scalia dies, the Supreme Court becomes even more salient, and Trump capitalizes on that with his promise to nominate conservative judges. And the rest is history. The Supreme Court was such a bogeyman in the Evangelical church I grew up in.
I remember at a funeral home for a visitation comforting two recent college grads that there pastor wouldn’t be persecuted over his refusal to perform a gay wedding due to the First Amendment, which they were worried about. I was 20. That was such an insane time.