Of all forms of government, theocracy has got to be the worst.
If you haven't noticed yet that a Kreesh-chun America is the Great Evangelical-American Wet Dream, you're not paying attention.
What do you call it when a power-driven and dictatorial religious minority bullies, lies, and stacks courts, in order to legislate its own religious values onto others?
Sure sounds like tyranny to me.
Well, the Trump Court of partisan hacks has overturned Roe v. Wade, as we all knew it would.
For me personally, the hardest part of all has been hearing the smug, sanctimonious voices crowing about their victory, and vaunting about what they're going to do next to shove their hate-filled religion even further down everyone else's craws.
(Make no mistake, the war over abortion is at heart religious. Anti-abortionism is a specifically Christian movement embraced almost exclusively by certain forms of Christian conservatism, both Catholic and Protestant. When it comes to abortion, Jewish and Islamic religious law tends to be both more pragmatic and more nuanced. Nuance, of course, has never been an Evangelical strong suit, and Catholicism threw it out with Vatican II.)
So here's what we need to remember when it's our turn—as it eventually will be, because the Evangelical cause has already failed; having to legislate your religion onto others is already a concession of defeat—and the shoe is on the other foot.
Win graciously.
Acknowledge that this triumph is painful for others.
Acknowledge the humanity of the other side.
Acknowledge that their positions are as deeply-held, and honestly-held, as ours.
Affirm that we go forward together into a shared future.
If you're not hearing voices speaking in any of these ways at the moment, it's because hubris has always been the besetting sin of Evangelicalism.
Well, the gods hate hubris.
Our time will come. Let us learn from the mistakes of others, and prepare ourselves to be good winners.
