The Cost of the Evangelical Betrayal

calamity · Jul 11, 2020

White, conservative Christians who set aside the tenets of their faith to support Donald Trump are now left with little to show for it.

Now, that is encouraging.

Donald Trump may be a flawed character, they argued, but at least he appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

And then came Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia...

“An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law,” Gorsuch wrote for the majority in the 6–3 ruling.

It was a crushing blow for the religious right, and it must have dawned on more than a few of Trump’s evangelical supporters that if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, the outcome of the case would have been the same; the only difference is that the margin probably would have been 7–2.

Gorsuch hands the LGBTQ movement a historic victory. :lamo

And, Bostock wasn't the only Evangelical defeat. In June, Medical Services v. Russo—a 5–4 decision--the Court delivered a blow to the pro-life movement, striking down the crazy Louisiana law that would have effectively banned abortion in that backward state, ensuring that Roe v. Wade will live another day.

In short, the Faustian bargain the Evangelicals made turned out about as one would expect such deals with the devil to play out. And, for them, it only gets worse.

Read on.
The Cost of the Evangelical Betrayal - The Atlantic

calamity · Jul 11, 2020

Another loss...Hong Kong.

“You feel this constant pressure, like an invisible hand is clasped over your mouth.” Great reporting by
@rachel_cheung1
in our story on the new HK, where books disappear, words turn illegal, and protesters are arrested while holding blank sheets of paper

Alice Su

Few people talk about the disaster of losing Hong Kong to the "Godless" ChiComs, certainly the result of having a very weak US President.

The Cost of the Evangelical Betrayal

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