At BYU, speaker says religious right's ties to Republican party spurred secularization

[TexasTowelie]

PROVO — Prayer became a political football on Sunday after Devin Patrick Kelley shot and killed 26 believers in a Baptist church in Texas.

First, President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, both Republicans, tweeted about prayers for the victims and their families. Then Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, tweeted back, "Thoughts & prayers are not enough, GOP," a sentiment repeated by many others.

In an editorial column sarcastically titled "How dare the GOP pray for Texas" in Monday's Wall Street Journal, former George W. Bush speechwriter William McGurn defended the religious right. "In short," he wrote, "if you are Republican praying instead of passing gun control, you've got blood on your hands."

But at BYU on Tuesday, Notre Dame political science professor David Campbell said that the political movement known as the religious right would do better to look itself in the mirror than express outrage when Democrats, liberals and progressives rail against religious expressions in the political arena.

Read more: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865692420/At-BYU-speaker-says-religious-rights-ties-to-Republican-party-spurred-secularization.html

[AJT]

1. Yep. I started questioning my faith after the rise of the "moral majority".

Their involvement in politics and ugly rhetoric they spewed made me look at what being a Christian had become......I became an agnostic.

[bitterross]

2. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

It's something they did to themselves.

Love it when I can use a Biblical quote in this manner.