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Links for 03/21/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Evangelicals are already a mixed back of Reformed Calvinist who follow Kuyper, African African American and Latino Evangelical and Pentacostals, Congregationalists in the north and the Southern Baptists and their allies.  Its only the latter group where Trumpism is splitting things up.  The hard core authoritarians in the South are all for Trump, especially if they think the "other" is to blame for their problems.  There are second generation white evangelicals, however, who never drank the authoritarian Kool-Aid and bought into the pro-life li(n)e with a sincere heart, never dreaming it was about GOP politics (Trump is historically very pro-choice, so this a problem for true believers).  The second generationals came at their faith with a pure heart - not knowing that in their ranks were many with feet of clay from the start.  They are now waking up to the fact that maybe the Southern Baptist Convention and the Missouri Synod have rope burns on their hands from the days of Judge Lynch.



There are quite a few Democratic constituencies that are also a bit naive about the GOP conspiracy on abortion, so a less feminist line on it - and other things does work better on more traditionalist Catholics who would not dream of thinking their bishops were in the thrall of the GOP.



As for religious liberty, most people can tell the difference between the religious liberty of employees and the religious power of their Catholic employers.  No one likes to be strong armed at work.  Not even Church ladies.



The Popes equivalency between how Jesus was treated and how immigrants are treated is interesting - although in Jesus' case, he was seeking the cross.  While immigrants are seeking something, they are oft surprised that that something is exploitation akin to slavery, either in factories or the sex trade.  Jesus knew what he was getting into and it benefited us, since his vision quest on the Cross is our salvation.  The exploitation of migrants, however, is just wrong.