{"id":16997,"date":"2018-01-03T17:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16997"},"modified":"2018-01-03T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:15:42","slug":"this-here-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/01\/03\/this-here-there\/","title":{"rendered":"this here there"},"content":{"rendered":"

So.\u00c2\u00a0 Um<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To many Christians, the backlash against Indiana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153religious freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill was a frightening sign of the secular left\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s triumphalism. Liberals were no longer working toward tolerance, it seemed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey were out for conquest. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Many evangelicals were experiencing the sense of an almost existential threat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Russell Moore, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, told me. It was only a matter of time, he said, before cultural elites\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 scornful attitudes would help drive Christians into the arms of a strongman like Trump. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think there needs to be a deep reflection on the left about how they helped make this happen.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

To be sure, I’d rather have bakers not have to service cakes commemorating gay marriages.\u00c2\u00a0 (Hey!\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a whole article in Harpers on what gays lost by making this hetero-normative accommodation the foundation of what he considers his movement<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know where he stands on that issue.)\u00c2\u00a0 And I’m musing in a lot of threadings of needles — yep!\u00c2\u00a0 They’re arguing about creation and definitions of of “art” and “vision” before Supreme Court, when the issue comes down to whether they are forced to stick two plastic Tom Deweys on the top of the damned cake.<\/p>\n

And to be sure, the man who made the comment here isn’t a Trump fan.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though, I suppose, he’d skip and stick to loyal servant — biblical servant as we see in the article — Pence in a heartbeat.)\u00c2\u00a0 But, “scorn” from a set of the political constituency — who themselves receive their fair share of scorn from Coulter Limbaugh and on — leads them to leap over to a Mussolini — Trump?<\/p>\n

Like the broad-shoulder rememberances!<\/p>\n

In the other revolt of “deep reflection” on the “left” (whatever those are supposed to signify) — Bill Clinton (and by extension his wife) versus hashtag Metoo.\u00c2\u00a0 Strange tidings.\u00c2\u00a0 So, have veteran\u00c2\u00a0 Clinton campaigners in a big banquet somewhere, scaring off people protesting this with an interesting buggaloboo.\u00c2\u00a0 “The American people decided.\u00c2\u00a0 They voted for him!”\u00c2\u00a0 Without coming on any side here, that’s a piss poor argument on moral turpitude.<\/p>\n

Though, I see in one of the liberal rags — either The Nation or In These Times — on the considerations here… now that we don’t have, say, an Orrin Hatch to annoy us and come over to Clinton… one statement… questioning if Lewinsky in her power imbalance even has a grounds of consent.\u00c2\u00a0 The answer is… without exonerating Clinton here, or against the other matters that would have lead feminists to find their way to a “well, he supports abortion rights” exoneration … er, yes.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve redefined things into meaningless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So.\u00c2\u00a0 Um. To many Christians, the backlash against Indiana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153religious freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill was a frightening sign of the secular left\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s triumphalism. Liberals were no longer working toward tolerance, it seemed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey were out for conquest. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Many evangelicals were experiencing the sense of an almost existential threat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Russell Moore, a leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16998,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions\/16998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}