“The impudence of a bawd is modesty compared with that of a convert,” said George Savile, the first marquess of Halifax. The comparison between prostitution and performative religious zeal may sound trite, but it suits a recent online conversation about the “rosary beads” between Megyn Kelly and the right-wing activist Jack Posobiec.
“They just feel empowering,” Ms. Kelly said on her podcast. A few weeks later she tweeted that she was “off to pray the beautiful rosary” that Mr. Posobiec had given her, “like virtually all Christians do.” (That will be news to more than a billion non-Catholic Christians.) Days before, Mr. Posobiec appeared at AmericaFest, a conservative political conference in Phoenix, brandishing a rosary above his head in defiance amid the strains of license-free hype music while KISS-style pyrotechnics exploded on stage behind him.
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