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(82,333 posts) Sat Dec 10, 2016, 08:21 PM Dec 2016

Religious Right Reinvigorated by Donald Trump

Encouraged by Trump’s cabinet picks, conservative Christians want many of Obama’s social policies reversed

By IAN LOVETT
Dec. 10, 2016 7:00 a.m. ET

CHARLESTON, S.C.—After nearly a decade, the Christian right is emerging from the political wilderness.

Donald Trump’s victory is giving new life to socially conservative causes that have suffered a string of defeats in recent years, potentially reigniting culture wars that many liberals had hoped were all but over.

Conservative Christians who had despaired of the country’s direction under President Barack Obama—and of developments such as the legalization of same-sex marriage—now expect to wield influence in an administration that they helped bring to power.

They are pressing for a ban on late-term abortions; expanded accommodation for religion in the workplace, at hospitals and elsewhere; and, above all, the appointment of conservative judges.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/religious-right-reinvigorated-by-donald-trump-1481371206