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Two sharp divisions within the Catholic Church illustrate a broader trend. Over 100 German Catholic parishes now recognize and bless gay couples against the orders of the Pope. It’s not expected that they will face any punishment. In the U.S., many bishops want to deny communion to President Joe Biden over his support for abortion. Pope Francis has urged American bishops to not carry this out, but it is growing in popularity.
The two events indicate a larger change within the Religious Right: complete retreat on gay issues in favor of a total focus on abortion. While the German priests are of course not American, it’s not hard to see a similar situation arise here in one of our more conservative denominations. Catholic conservatives are disgusted with the German church’s heresy, but in America, the Religious Right has surrendered on the gay issue.
This is a major change from just 10 or 15 years ago. George W. Bush won re-election in 2004 on the promise of passing a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Liberal California voted to ban same-sex marriage in 2008. Several states banned gay adoption to popular acclaim. Support for traditional values was a vote-getter, and the Religious Right was a powerful force. Now social conservatives can only muster opposition to trans athletes in girls’ sports.
There are two recent examples to show the change in the Religious Right.
For years, evangelicals and other conservative Christians battled against gays adopting kids. Now they help gays get kids. “We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today,” Bethany Christian Services president Chris Palusky said in an email announcing the change in March. The organization’s position previously stated that “God’s design for the family is a covenant and lifelong marriage of one man and one woman.” But it has been quietly working with gay couples to secure children over the last two years. Philadelphia suspended contracts with Bethany and a Catholic adoption service after a lesbian couple complained that the evangelicals referred them to another provider. Bethany capitulated to the pressure and agreed to work with gay couples. (Interestingly, the Catholic charity refused to cave in and sued the city.) In January, Bethany eliminated its position in favor of traditional marriage.
This change is brought by state pressure and changing attitudes among evangelicals. Philadelphia and many others now refuse to work with adoption services that reject gay couples. Bethany’s policy change was greeted with disappointment by many of its conservative allies.
“I am disappointed in this decision, as are many,” Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said. “This move will harm already existing efforts to enable faith-based orphan care ministries to serve the vulnerable without capitulating on core Christian convictions.”
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The other big change was the lack of opposition toward Republicans supporting Caitlyn Jenner’s bid for California governor. Here was the face of the transgender movement setting out as a member of social conservatives’ party in an attempt to govern America’s most populous state. Many conservatives, particularly from Trump world, back “her.” The only voices to complain about Jenner’s elevation to a conservative icon aren’t associated with the Religious Right. It’s people like Nick Fuentes and others — many of whom are devout Christians — but are not known as figureheads in the Religious Right. Megachurch pastors and Catholic bishops haven’t said anything about Con Inc. and the GOP rallying behind Jenner.
These same groups also don’t complain about the many gays taking leadership roles within the conservative movement and GOP. They don’t raise a fuss that the party no longer seems to care about overturning gay marriage or preventing gay adoption. They certainly didn’t care that the last Republican president touted his pro-LGBT record and used American’s foreign apparatus to push for gay acceptance all over the globe.
So much for eternal, unchanging values.
Much of this change is driven by shifting public attitudes. Seventy percent of Americans back same-sex marriage. This includes over 70% of Catholics and the majority of every other Christian denomination, except for white evangelicals. But even among white evangelicals, a majority (59%) support laws that “protect” gays from discrimination. These very same laws are used to undermine religious freedom. A majority of Republicans also back gay marriage and LGBT “civil rights protections.” Young white evangelicals also have very different views from their parents. A plurality (47%) said they supported gay marriage in 2017. It’s likely that number has increased over the last four years to constitute an outright majority.
There’s also the matter of declining religiosity in America. A recent Gallup poll found that church membership had fallen below 50% for the first time. Only 65% of Americans still identify as Christian, while 26% say they have no religious affiliation at all. Religion is also becoming less important to the foot soldiers of the Religious Right — albeit slightly. In 2008, when gay marriage was still getting crushed at the ballot box, 80% of evangelicals said religion was very important to them. In 2019, less than 74% said so.
This all comes at a time when the Religious Right may be on the precipice of achieving a long-term goal: repealing Roe v. Wade. The landmark ruling that legalized abortion nationwide may receive a Supreme Court overturning this year, depending on how the court rules in an abortion case it just accepted. A revocation of Roe v. Wade would be the biggest victory for social conservatives in modern history. But this wouldn’t necessarily be a result of winning over the public to their side. Over 60% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in most cases and the numbers only increase with young people. While a fair number of Americans say they oppose abortion in most cases, only 14% favor the outright bans wanted by the pro-life movement.
Yet, unlike with gay issues, the Religious Right fervently fights over abortion and continues to shape policy on the issue.
The difference is that no one really calls you a bigot for opposing abortion. In fact, you can claim the real bigots support abortion because it disproportionately affects non-whites. It’s one of the few dissents the system will tolerate, likely because most pro-life arguments don’t threaten the liberal zeitgeist. Most abortion opponents make their case by making their position the true egalitarian stance, while demonizing their opponents as racists and eugenicists. On LGBT issues, social conservatives don’t have that luxury. The only hope to avoid bigotry is to appeal to faith, which no longer carries as much weight. Besides, to many Americans, being a good Christian just means being a “good person.” That requires one to embrace gays, lesbians, transgenders, atheists, and pretty much everyone except racists. That leaves the Religious Right with just one main issue and shifting accessory issues, like “religious freedom” (which seems to have been forgotten about) and homeschool support.
There will come a time when most evangelical groups, and possibly even the Catholic Church, come to fully accept gay couples. To fit in within society, it will be a requirement to do so. Secular authorities could threaten and cajole to get these results. Influential parishioners could pressure their pastors and priests to capitulate, or the pastors and priests could do it on their own because they think they need to make this concession to keep parishioners in their pews. However it happens, it will convey that the churches follow a higher power on Earth, and it isn’t God.
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I am for gay marriages as long as it is confined within non-white communities; I am also for abortion as long as it is confined within non-white communities, the same for AIDS, COVOD-19–ad infinitum.
Excellent article. However, I think Roe V Wade is here to stay.
What passes for Christianity these days would be unrecognizable to the millennial+ generations of their European ancestors, who were racially aware and loyal to their own, understood the JQ and the nature of Islam, accepted hierarchy as divinely mandated and knew the differences between men and women, all quite comfortably.
More than three centuries of Enlightenment propaganda have hollowed out the Christian churches in the West, finally even taking down Rome herself. They now all worship at the altar of liberty, equality and fraternity, UN-style. The Trojan Horse has done its work.
I’m pretty sure that being non-racially aware and pro-globalist is a feature, not a bug, of Christianity.
“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” —Galatians 3:28
I’m pretty sure that quoting one line from a book does not do away with the actual history of Christian Europe.
There are some of them that still opppose it. This group here opposes gay marriage. https://tfpstudentaction.org/
They also say on their site that the Jesuits have capitulated to the lgbt and I can’t find any larger Catholic groups who do.
Wait a second. Is someone here implying the the Catholic Church endorses same-sex marriage? That is totally false. Even the rotten Pope Francis has not tried to pronounce that same-sex “marriage” is equivalent to the actual sacrament of marriage.
Absolutely incorrect, indicating a very shallow degree of theological understanding. That so-oft misused quote refers to the universal potential of spiritual salvation through Christ (that Christ did not come merely to save the alleged “Chosen”). It is descriptive not prescriptive; it embodies no moral command to erase historic peoples and cultures. The issue for real Christians wrt race mixing is not whether it is evil, but whether resistance to it is evil, to which the answer is “no”. (Don’t fall for the enemy’s propaganda.)
“being non-racially aware and pro-globalist is a feature…of Christianity”
False. There are 2 factions of clergy in the church – even today:
the Trad-Cats vs. globohomo.
This is Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in a video in 1989:
(A man who has spent a lot of time in Africa) Keep in mind there are a lot of clergy like him today; they just can’t speak up because the Jesuit, who is currently on the seat of Peter in Rome, is in fact, part of globohomo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWyHyP1oQY
Jim, that quote from Galatians isn’t about race
but can I ask you… even if it was, do you think anything in this quote, Galatians, or the rest of the New Testament negates the end time prophecies in Daniel?
It would be pretty absurd to argue that Christianity, or Christ, promotes being racially unaware – no matter how many ppl who call themselves Christian would try to convince us otherwise.
…So, don’t let them convince you too.
You are correct. The church (I speak of all of them) has been polluted and corrupted by liberalism, a doctrine very different from actual Christianity (especially in its modern ‘progressive’ form, though certain philosophical presumptions put even the classical, libertarian variety at odds with the faith in its fundamentals). The churches need to be seized by their laities, and ruthlessly cleansed.
SCOTUS won’t dare do anything that goes against The Agenda. Resident Bidet wants to pack the court, and it would give him (or to be accurate, his handlers) just the excuse. Of course, it’s because of their feet of clay that we’re in this mess.
“Faith” is just a euphemism for people accepting a proposition on the basis of social pressure instead of evidence. Christianity evaporated once the left took over the public morality with Wokeism, as all those “faithful” people were primarily concerned with their social status and parroting social justice talking points is what gives social status now.
The reason gays playing pee-pee can jump around between being right and wrong as a moral issue is because it doesn’t really matter much. The Romans and Greeks did quite well for themselves, and they thought it was only a problem if you were the one on the bottom. Similarly the United States can still beat up on smaller countries even with 57 genders. Compare that to, say, “defund the police and use community organizers instead” where you see immediate severe consequences from a bad idea.
‘To fit in with society they will have to…’
NO, Churchianity will and is doing that.
The genuine Christian church will not ‘fit in with society’ and will not go along. Whether that means it loses members or not, don’t confuse Churchianity with the real thing.
This page and the quote Robert Lewis Dabney have helped wake me up from my slumber of Conservatism. Populism has life in it still I feel, even though it is getting too close to conservatism.
This take on ‘the gays’ is exactly the reason why white ppl are losing this race war, in such a bloody and publicly humiliating way.
This movement needs an Ernst Röhm. We will continue to flounder & fail until this revelation is fully realized. We are throwing away one of the greatest and most effective weapons in our arsenal, that has the potential to utterly defang any moral justification for black/brown militancy, #metoo/feminism, trans/anti-male effeminacy, and the jew subversion justifying of it all… that weapon is the gay white male of the Greco-Roman tradition.
Our enemy knows this. Which is why our enemy is going through such great lengths to infiltrate pro-white circles to neutralize this weapon; they know who turned them back at Thermopylae – they know who left Jerusalem in a heap of smoldering rubble. They know the strength of the West, when even we haven’t realized it yet.
It wasn’t just ‘the Nazis’ who got rid of Hirschfeld‘s school – it was the homo SA. It’s not about gay, it’s about what type of gay… what type of man. The effeminate heterosexual man is causing every bit as much damage to the West as the black tranny. Maybe more.
As far as the above article goes, it was obviously not written by a real Christian, but another Old Testament jew. More importantly, for readers of Counter-Culture, it is misleading and does not give an adequate, updated analysis of the Christian Right’s relationship with homosexuality, and how that relationship affects the political/social interests of our movement….. Or it would’ve instead been an article about how ever since the crackdowns following Charlottesville, the Christian Right has cucked (as it always does) on the issue of obvious anti-white racism in this country, and has looked for a substitute issue to take the place of the inescapable issue of race, which we all know is what is at the root of the war being thrust upon us…. They have decided on a far easier pivot to homosexuality as its prime moral target; a Prop 8.2. Anything is better than being called racist, to this crowd. It is the opposite of “The Religious Right No Longer Cares About The Gays”.
But one would have to actually be listening to and attending the sermons, for the past 10 years, to see the recent trend that’s revisiting. I doubt this author has been.
This is a troublesome sign of the advancing leftwing zeitgeist, but but as with many issues, I guess it depends on how much one values nationalism, or even just advancing the interests of whites, versus Christianity and American social conservatism.
I think there is a social conservative case for allowing for gay marriage. A small, but steady fraction of the population will always be homosexual. If I have a gay son or brother, I’d rather them commit to a monogamous relationship, than the reckless promiscuity that characterized the outcast gay lifestyle of past decades.
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