How Trump Has Transformed the War for Religious Liberty

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The infrastructure built up to support the religious liberty crusade is still intact. But Trump’s campaign has exposed a deep vulnerability of the Right.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
BY THEO ANDERSON

“Religious liberty is under threat in this country like never before,” Sen. Ted Cruz said last fall. He predicted that, “as these threats grow darker and darker and darker, they are waking people up in Texas and across the country.”

But the past year has been a fizzle for the crusade.

The conservative writer Rod Dreher wrung his hands recently and wondered what it would “take to get American Christians off their self-satisfied, complacent dopey butts and fight for our religious liberty.” David French, a National Review writer and energetic religious liberty warrior, recently described the 2016 election as a “colossal, miserable, disgusting failure.”

Ironically, Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim bigotry is to blame for this “failure” of religious liberty.

http://inthesetimes.com/article/19425/how-trump-has-transformed-the-war-for-religious-liberty

[Cartoonist]

1. dopey butts

That's where they can stick their idea of religious liberty.

[whatthehey]

2. Can anybody identify a threat to their religious liberty being either enacted or proposed?

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3. I don't see any in this country but there are quite a few countries that do.

[whatthehey]

5. True. Christians in Saudi Arabia for example have every right to bewail their religious liberty

Here, not so much.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "Religious liberty" means, to them, the legal ability to discriminate

but who needs state laws, and rulings here and there allowing employment discrimination, when you can have a presidential candidate whose entire existence is built around discrimination and bigotry? Why settle for a vague sense of oppressing another group when your Maximum Leader gives you permission to stand up and shout your bigotry in a rally?