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Showing Original Post only (View all)Christian rightwing figures warn abortion fight could lead to civil war [View all]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/26/abortion-ban-rightwing-christian-figures-civil-war-predictions?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=IwAR02Fkgc4urR-fe4HnMTQEh0sA1luICDgm89q23xgGnbsSexSn8wSkDhPu0#Echobox=1558850753by Jason Wilson
Prominent figures on the Christian right in the US ranging from religious magazines to authors to elected politicians have warned that the fight over abortion rights could lead to a new civil war.
Though such dire predictions are not necessarily new on the extreme right wing in the US, the passing of a wave of hardline anti-abortion laws in numerous states this year appears to have amped up the conspiracy-minded predictions that depict abortion squarely as a root cause of a coming conflict.
Republican lawmakers such as Ohios Candice Keller have openly speculated that the divide over abortion rights might lead to civil war. Last month, Keller drew explicit comparisons with the antebellum situation over slavery, telling the Guardian: Whether this ever leads to a tragedy, like it did before with our civil war, I cant say.
Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed that the Washington state republican legislator Matt Shea had also speculated about civil war, and the Balkanization of America, predicting that Christians would retreat to zones of freedom such as the inland Pacific north-west, where Shea is campaigning for a new state to break away from Washington.
Asked on a podcast if the two halves of the country could remain together, Shea said: I dont think we can, again, because you have half that want to follow the Lord and righteousness and half that dont, and I dont know how that can stand.
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Armageddon still a big goal for them.
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They'll be thrilled when we infidels who support choice get raptured.
greatauntoftriplets
May 2019
#1
If Blue and Purple states came together, the red states would have very little coastline...
hlthe2b
May 2019
#2
Shipping still matters. And airspace restrictions do make a difference in a non-democracy setting.
hlthe2b
May 2019
#9
I was referring to blue/purple states free ability to fly even if RED states posed restrictions.
hlthe2b
May 2019
#11
As there were Muslims in Hindu-dominated India and Hindus in what became Muslim Pakistan
hlthe2b
May 2019
#14
"Law of untended consequences".... No one could really predict but it surely would be traumatic.
hlthe2b
May 2019
#19
There are a tremendous amount of military bases in blue states as well as red...
hlthe2b
May 2019
#18
I wasn't writing in a literal sense, rather speaking to the irony of people under the banner
aka-chmeee
May 2019
#35
Freedom was the defining lesson of the Civil War. These idiots did not learn that lesson evidently.
LonePirate
May 2019
#4
Jesuits were always considered to be the more liberal order. Pope Francis is a Jesuit
hlthe2b
May 2019
#24
That's because these filthy and traitorous pieces of trash still believe in this nonsense of 'the...
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#7
I knew this but didn't want to include it in my post, too much info. for post topic...nt
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#36
Yikes. Thank goodness that most of us aren't this gullible or willing to kill their fellow ...
SWBTATTReg
May 2019
#40
The GOP is predominately middle aged and old white men who are well past combat age
Downtown Hound
May 2019
#23
The upcoming Republic of Gidead won't be satisfied with abortion criminalization.
no_hypocrisy
May 2019
#30