Thanks for this comment. I agree with you that there is intentionality as a way to attract voters that most of the rest of the party's agenda provides very little for. This was the theme of What About Kansas. - an excellent book worth reading, but the title may be outdated after a Democrat has won the governorship for 8 years and the abortion referendum result from this summer.
It is the GOP playbook to try to make Americans afraid of what they do not understand. Decisions to demean the LBGTQ community through violence, protest, leaving the church, or excommunicating family members are decisions made in that fear.
LBGTQ persons largely want the same things everyone else does - enforced laws that protect their family structure, rights at work, and personal safety.
Similar rheoric and violence occurred when women, and African Americans, asked for those things too.
Thanks for this comment. I agree with you that there is intentionality as a way to attract voters that most of the rest of the party's agenda provides very little for. This was the theme of What About Kansas. - an excellent book worth reading, but the title may be outdated after a Democrat has won the governorship for 8 years and the abortion referendum result from this summer.
Thanks for being a great reader of my work!!
It is the GOP playbook to try to make Americans afraid of what they do not understand. Decisions to demean the LBGTQ community through violence, protest, leaving the church, or excommunicating family members are decisions made in that fear.
LBGTQ persons largely want the same things everyone else does - enforced laws that protect their family structure, rights at work, and personal safety.
Similar rheoric and violence occurred when women, and African Americans, asked for those things too.
Thanks for sharing the Ross Douthat piece. Your progressive sanity and his conservative sanity are both welcome.