MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said on his “Morning Joe” show Tuesday that the far right has invented religion and made abortion a “religious issue” rather than “just a political issue.”
“So many people on Trump’s right are self-righteous and have made up religion, so it’s no surprise that we repeat this,” Scarborough said. This Christian nationalism is their invention of religion. It gets more and more extreme every week. I think current IVF is the devil’s play. Mike Pence had a child through in vitro fertilization. Now, is he a heretic? Are they going to hang him? they wanted to do that. Is his wife a witch? Are there going to be witch trials? ”
He continued: “When I was in high school, the Southern Baptist Convention was pro-choice. In fact, they were pro-choice from the time of Jesus until the Beatles broke up. Wait, not just when the Beatles broke up, these Protestant denominations… had been selected as a pro since the Eagles disbanded.
He added, “They’re waving a Bible in your face and telling you that you’re not Christian enough because you don’t believe in what Jerry Falwell, Richard Viguerie, and Paul Weyrich decided to do in 1979.” So please stay with me,” he added. They did it to defeat a Democratic president who happened to be a Southern Baptist. He basically taught Sunday school every Sunday, so he could not be said to be insufficiently qualified as a Christian. He was a good and polite man. So what did they do? Please stay with me, I know you don’t want to hear it outside, but please stay with me because this is the truth. They made the issue of abortion not just a political issue, but a religion. “We’re going to address abortion as a religious issue, not just a political issue,” said Jerry Falwell, Republican operative Richard Viguerie, and Republican direct mail expert Paul Weyrich.
Mr Scarborough concluded: “They decided to make abortion a religious issue so Jimmy Carter could get votes from conservative Catholics and working-class Protestants. That’s what they came up with. Now, fast forward many years later and I talk to most of my friends, they would say abortion is a religious issue.”
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