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Heddi

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Mon Mar 13, 2017, 03:00 PM Mar 2017

Can Religious Liberty Bring The White House And Never Trumpers Together? Well, They Had A Meeting Ab

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/03/13/can-religious-liberty-bring-the-white-house-and-never-trumpers-together-well-they-had-a-meeting-about-it-n2298187

Can Religious Liberty Bring The White House And Never Trumpers Together? Well, They Had A Meeting About It

After years of being under attack by the Obama White House, Trump was the best shot for evangelical Christian and conservative Catholics to have a chance at pushing back against the executive orders on transgender bathrooms. It’s a fight that’s made strange bedfellows of the Left and Right. Radical feminists have partnered with conservative groups in fighting the transgender executive order on public school restrooms issues by the Obama administration. Trump recently rolled that order back. Richards said that for feminists, they understand that there is something inherently unique about being a woman. There are traits and characteristics that are specific to that gender, whereas transgenderism is more or less someone simply thinking that they’re born in the wrong body. That’s not the same thing. In some aspects, feminist groups may see the trans rights movement as pushing for the erasure of the lines that make the feminist movement unique to women.

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Richards knew that religious freedom could be the issue that could bring the two camps together. Evangelicals saw that a lot of solid conservatives were in Trump’s orbit of advisers. In September of 2016, Trump sat down with 25 of the leading (and mostly) Never Trump leaders in the country. He wasn’t there to rip them about their opposition to his candidacy. He was here to listen, which he did—going around to each person sitting at his marble table in the conference room. It was a compromise. Trump isn’t going to lead the charge against same-sex marriage, but the overall issue of religious liberty could become the bridge between these two camps. Yet, there are obstacles.

First, if the evangelical community somewhat compromises on the issue of traditional marriage, does that mean the conservative Christian community has come to terms that gay marriage is here to stay in the same fashion that liberals have to know that their gun control advocacy is going nowhere? Richards disagrees with th
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Nice to see the bigoted, transphobic TERFers have a friend in the bigoted, transphobic evangelical christian sect
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