As moral debates about abortion, sexual morality, and gender identity are deemed “settled” by the cultural mandarins of the Left, an increasing number of people view orthodox Christians as exactly as venal as white supremacists. Refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding perpetuates a 21st-century Jim Crow. Maintaining Christian moral standards at Christian institutions is segregation.
It's against this backdrop that I read Emma Green's widely shared interview with Michael Wear, the director of the 2012 Obama campaign's faith-outreach effort. Pondering the stunning white Evangelical turnout for Trump — who won a greater share of the Evangelical vote than George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney — Wear lamented not just the “ineptitude” of the Democratic party but also “the ignorance of Democrats in not even pretending to give these voters a reason to vote for them. He made the case for Democratic outreach to Evangelicals on principled grounds, arguing that “It's the duty of living in a pluralistic society to make a case to all folks,” and on political ones, pointing out that “It doesn't help you win elections if you're openly disdainful toward the driving force in many Americans' lives.”
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