We're now seeing 'the most disproportionate power that the Christian Right has had in my lifetime':

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Religion expert

A small but growing minority of white evangelicals are embracing Christian nationalism, and they just achieved two longstanding goals with U.S. Supreme Court decisions on abortion and school prayer.

Even as the number of white evangelicals have shrunk in population, and their median age has been climbing, the high court has helped this influential minority grab power despite a Democratic trifecta in the White House and Congress, reported NPR.

"This is the most disproportionate power that the Christian Right has had in my lifetime," says Robert Jones, CEO and founder of the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute.

Six in 10 Americans say abortion should be legal, but the court just struck down the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling and justice Clarence Thomas signaled a willingness to end same-sex marriage protections, although seven in 10 support that right -- and the religious right has reacted to the loss of their so-called "moral majority" by grabbing for even more power.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-re-now-seeing-the-most-disproportionate-power-that-the-christian-right-has-had-in-my-lifetime-religion-expert/ar-AAZ54ap

[Scrivener7]

1. It's not the Christian right. Its the Sharia Law pushers.

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. Given the composition of the Court

I'd say it's Maria Law.

[myohmy2]

2. they...

...do it anyway they can...

...we should take page from that book...

...

[Arkansas Granny]

3. When I was growing up, the evangelicals were a fringe group.

Cable TV (700 Club, TBN, etc.) let them reach a much larger audience and they infiltrated more traditional denominations which gave them a much greater influence than they had experienced before.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. There's actually less evangelicals now than there was decades ago.

But they’ve somehow managed to gain power.