I think this is a key point that people SHOULD attend to here. This was not inevitable, but a specific tactic, though it goes back to the 70s and the rise of the Moral Majority that Gingrich really ran with. It was a direct outcome of gay rights measures being passed in cities across the country in the wake of the more militant gay rights movement after Stonewall. Jerry Falwell backed the attempt to repeal the gay rights ordinance in Dade County in FL (I think) and they were eventually successful. Then he backed Reagan against the ACTUAL Evangelical Christian in the 1980 election, President Jimmy Carter. They rallied around repealing Roe, too. Pretty much, they’ve been working to put these positive changes into law since the 1970s, and are succeeding. But we don’t have to let them win.
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