MGB:_The title begs the question of who is the Church? It is certainly not just the hierarchy, as some would think. The hierarchs who supported Trump, taking advantage of Clinton’s debate gaffe on partial birth abortion to mobilize the pro-life troops, which is one reason Trump won certain midwestern states. Trump has done his best to look busy and until an opportunity comes up to consider overturning Roe again, Trump gets the benefit of the doubt that he is not just looking busy on abortion. The Trump package includes the insidiious-Alt-Right racism endorsed by Fox News and its anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim ideology. These are features, not flaws, as is the belief by many Trumpsters in the outlandish belief that hunger will force someone to get a job when no one will hire them or that global warming and evolution are just theories and not overall paradigms. One conflicting study does not end a paradigm. A better paradigm does.
What has left of the Church learned. Being right does not offer space for learning, including being right about our brothers and sisters who have been decieved in the FoxNews universe. We should have learned that trying to shame them into right belief will not work, anymore than we will let them shame us on Roe, because there really is a difference between supporting abortion and recognizing its legaility. We cannot write them out of the Church anymore than they can write us out. We hope that they will come around as Muller keeps dropping bombs on their beloved Idiot in Chief, but while some will wake up, I am sure some of them still think that Nixon was innocent.
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