06-28-2016, 11:59 AM
In politics, there are no such thing as permanent friends or permanent enemies - only permanent interests.
And in American politics, if you don't like who hates who, wait five minutes.
Both applied to the evangelicals vis-à-vis the Jews after 9/11 - and IMO at least, both apply to the evangelicals vis-à-vis the LGBT community after the Orlando shooting. And have you heard even one rant about transgenders in bathrooms since the shooting? I haven't.
And in American politics, if you don't like who hates who, wait five minutes.
Both applied to the evangelicals vis-à-vis the Jews after 9/11 - and IMO at least, both apply to the evangelicals vis-à-vis the LGBT community after the Orlando shooting. And have you heard even one rant about transgenders in bathrooms since the shooting? I haven't.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892