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Radical Relationship Changes--Will They Ruin Society As We Know It? Rant #20 ( Opinion ) March 30, 2020 Homosexuality, birth control, children born out of wedlock, divorce, single mothers, casual sex, transsexuals--all sinful choices that will lead to a ruinous society, so say the right-wing, traditionalist, often religious voices. They've said this before. Radical shifts around sexuality and family structure rocked Western societies with the spirit of Enlightenment in the late 18th and early 19th century. It started in America and France (doesn't it always?) before it rocked the establishment conservatives of that time. What crazy, liberal, revolutionary new sexual and relationships started to become common then? Some people at that time began to practice the previously taboo act of marrying a person that they felt limerance towards. In other words, couples began to get married on the basis of infattuated feelings and love for one another. Which went against t...

Trump's Faithful Evangelical Flock Rant #8 ( Opinion ) Originally March 1, 2020; Posted March 10, 2020 It will shock no one to hear that White evangelical Christians in the United States overwhelmingly back Donald Trump's presidency; victory without them would have simply not occurred. Somewhere between 25%  and 41%  of Americans identify as evangelical or "born again" Christians, meaning that they consider Jesus Christ their lord and personal savior. They constitute a bloc of voters worth roughly 1/4 of the American electorate; in 2016, a full 26% of voters in an exit poll identified as evangelical. This article tries to downplay this group's intense attachment with Trump--if I considered myself evangelical, I would too! The author makes the argument that not every single White evangelical showed up to vote,  that statistic doesn't differentiate between White and minority evangelicals, not all of those who consider themselves evangelical go to ch...