Fortunately what is right and what results over time is NOT what the Christian Nationalists usually want.
They wanted slavery..they lost They wanted laws against interracial marriage.. they lost. They wanted state sanctioned prayer in schools... they lost. They wanted segregation... they lost.
There are so many things they wanted I can't list them all, and cannot find one thing they wanted where they got it.
"Christian Nationalism is a political ideology separate from evangelicals. Evangelicals are about 30 percent of the American population. Christian Nationalism is a subset of 10-15 percent. It's less a religion than it is an ideology about the way America should be governed. It has this whole revisionist history claiming that America was founded as a Christian nation, that the separation of church and state is a fraud perpetrated by seculars. What follows from that are ideas about Christianization of institutions in American life, and that the courts have vastly overstepped their authority in the enforcement of the separation of church and state."
"the courts have vastly overstepped their authority in the enforcement of the separation of church and state."
There are some in the secular community who act like a vampire waking up in the sunlight when they so much as get a glimpse of two pieces of wood crossed over, they are every bit the freak as these church wackos.
blowback is a bitch
On balance, over time, the vast majority of Americans get it right...get used to it.
you won't always get you way. there are 299,999,999 others here ya know
Fortunately what is right and what results over time is NOT what the Christian Nationalists usually want.
They wanted slavery..they lost They wanted laws against interracial marriage.. they lost. They wanted state sanctioned prayer in schools... they lost. They wanted segregation... they lost.
There are so many things they wanted I can't list them all, and cannot find one thing they wanted where they got it.
As to the issue of separation of church and state, it's a, well, an issue.
By & large, I'm a firm believer in separating symbols, etc., and I'm sure Roy Moore was an asshole, I mean, showboating AL politician.
OTOH, nobody has claimed that crosses should be eliminated from cemeteries; and when you get something like the mammoth cross on Mt Soledad (subject of a long lawsuit in San Diego) what do you do?
Do you call it a war memorial, or a city subsidy of religion? The city's efforts to avoid the court orders strike me as more illegal than anything else.
Yet who is afraid of that as a religious symbol? I wonder if this isn't going to be the defining line, that the court doesn't come up with something to define the distinction between religious and other cultural issues.
One of the problems is those who will not negotiate to recognize others' concerns, and I would point particularly to the religious right, and the flaming gay boys on the left. These groups need to learn there are other people in the world.
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