2016 Postmortem

For example, people who vote solely on overturning Roe v. Wade. For others they have come to see the Democrats as representing everything evil about America. Sexual promiscuity, vulgar language, homosexuality being normalized.

Clearly these people don't do nuance very well. For example, not seeing being pro-life as a wider issue. I am Catholic and I vote for the Democrats because I think their economic positions would do more to help people start families and raise children. I am pro-life across the board (I am opposed to the death penalty, unnecessary wars, euthanasia, etc) and I think that it is impossible to be fully pro-life unless you are prepared to help the weakest among us. It is not good enough just to oppose Roe. But if you support something like what I mentioned above, the consistent life ethic, conservatives will attack you and say that you are selling out The Babies.

The Religious Right uses the unborn as a shield to protect other parts of the right-wing agenda that are not compatible with a consistent ethic of life. Unfortunately, so many Christians are conditioned to see anything deviating from the movement conservative agenda as "selling out" so people like me get dumped on and called traitors. .