Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?

On 16 Aug 2024 00:41:09 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

Where do you think the bulk of his support comes from? Who do you
think the Republican Party has been pandering to since Roe v Wade?

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Not since Roe vs. Wade at all.  For a long time, the whole anti-abortion
thing was seen as a Catholic issue and most protestants weren't against
abortion because they saw it as a Catholic thing.  In 1976, the Southern
Baptist Convention issued a policy statement about abortion being a
right. 

So, your theory is that the States currently enforcing (or trying to
do so) abortion laws they passed in the 1850s or 1880s or 1930s were
... controlled by Rome at the time? Since Protestants didn't much
care?

It was not until Pat Robertson and the Moral Majority discovered that
they could use the abortion issue to divide people and to make money
that it became a mainstream Protestant issue.
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And it was not until Ronald Reagan embraced the Moral Majority and the
Christian Right that it became a mainstream political issue.
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The pandering of the republican party to the Evangelical Movement
dates only back to Reagan.  This is a relatively recent thing.

Well, yes, 44 years is relatively recent compared to, say, 236 years.
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