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Amanda Marcotte interviewed Peter Montgomery for this piece in Salon. It answered some questions for me but I'm still somewhat baffled why the CR would support figures like Reagan and Trump, who weren't/aren't even religious but despise Carter and Obama, both of whom are churchgoers and in the case of Carter, very active in his church. I can only conclude that for these people politics trumps (sorry) religion. The interview talks about how David Lane is trying to get pastors to run for political office. Can anyone recommend a good about the CR? My head needs to stop exploding...
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/19/peter-montgomery-explains-why-conservative-christians-are-lining-up-behind-trump/
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)To abortion. This is a bogus issue, the republicans always hang is hot dog on the stick in front of these people and they always fall for it. They will never overturn r v wade because its all they have keep these people voting for them.
lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)the article didn't mention abortion which is a central issue to them.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)Trump is a virulent woman hater and that's good enough for them. They know he'll do the right thing by abolishing devil drugs like contraception and closing abortion clinics nationwide. He'll get the slaves back in the kitchen where they belong, jobless, wageless, voteless, and powerless, just like the OT intended.
No, that has nothing to do with Christianity. Neither does the Christian Right.
Get it?
lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)moose65
(3,164 posts)I was just a kid when Reagan was elected, but I remember reading something during the Reagan years wondering how a divorced man who never went to church was suddenly the darling of the evangelical right. I still don't get it - Reagan was an upper crust Hollywood type who literally had nothing in common with religious people. Same thing for Trump. Around here I am surrounded by religious crazies who just love Trump, and it makes no sense at all! Trump is the complete opposite of what I would consider a religious person. To me, Jimmy Carter completely kicks ass as a religious man, but the right wing despises him. I will never understand it....
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are filled with hatred.
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)Go to a casino, and you'll see them there. Go to the liquor store and you'll see them there. Go to a strip joint and you'll see them there. Go to church and they'll act like they haven't seen you in ten years. Money speaks louder than the words of God evidently.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)How are Democrats doing with Catholics? They're probably winning the polls among them.
It wouldn't surprise me if Democrats are doing better among some other denominations as well. Methodists maybe?
Southern Baptist density map:
muriel_volestrangler
(101,160 posts)over the past month:
Historically, white Catholics have been a key swing group in presidential elections, voting with the winner steadily in exit poll results from 1976 through 2004. But the group broke its streak in the last two contests, favoring John McCain over Barack Obama by 5 points, then Mitt Romney by 19, while Obama won.
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Trump was there earlier this season, leading Clinton among white Catholics by a wide 64-28 percent as he wrapped up his nomination victory in May. But the margin in this group has been quite variable Trump ahead by 27 points in March, 36 in May and 19 in July, vs. +3 in June and -6 in the latest ABC/Post poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-catholics-swing-voters-redux-poll/story?id=41327137
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)The Southern Baptist Convention was founded as a pro-slavery denomination in 1845 after a dispute over the appropriateness of letting slave-owners be missionaries to Africa. The Baptists never were as anti-slavery as were, for instance, the Quakers or the Methodists, and in the two decades of the Second Great Awakening they gave up pleading for slaves to be freed, instead remaining neutral on the subject of slavery. Neutrality, however, wasn't enough for the slave-owning elites they'd attracted and slave owners insisted on the Baptists condoning slavery by allowing slave owners to be missionaries; this was too much even for the Baptists and they refused. At which point the Southern Baptists seceded and formed their own denomination.
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,484 posts)who are strong Southern Baptists. These guys are both in their early 60's and active in the church. They don't like Trump and can't believe that he is the Republican candidate and I'm not sure either one will vote for him. Of course, they won't vote for Hillary either, but it lends credence to reports that Trump is losing support among white males.
FSogol
(45,363 posts)People like Joel Osteen preach that being rich means you are on the righteous path and God gives abundance to the Holy. Rich = holy, Poor = sinful
RapSoDee
(421 posts)Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)Holding onto racism is more important than anything else the the Christian Right in this country. That's why they could support someone like Trump.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)dembotoz
(16,740 posts)The news does stuff that would make trump blush
They make fox look honest and their flock swallow it all cause would their church station lie to them?
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)a shortage of critical thinking skills.