Oddbean new post about login | logout @f884fa2b It's particularly amusing to me that these right wing catholic cults have put hundreds of judges and politicians into power with the help of evangelical protestants, who apparently don't grok that the only thing the catholic church hates more than women's rights is...protestants. Can't wait to see how that works out. Protestants think *their* beliefs are going to be legislated by catholic judges. Really. They think that.
@20349ccc Absolutely. And this is all the direct result of ugly decisions made by the US Catholic bishops following the Civil Rights period to ally with right-wing white evangelicals, knowing full well who their allies were and what they stood for. So much of this was and still is driven by the determination to resist the advance of women's rights, and as a corollary, of LGBTQ rights. The fruits of that alliance are proving to be very toxic.