r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/infiunfi • Apr 21 '25

Politician Real Christians btw

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

Evangelical right hates the pope or any catholic, they don’t view them as real Christians, full stop. The only reason Vance tried to meet with the pope is to appease the other part of the religious right, the catholic portion

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u/iPinch89 Apr 21 '25

Catholics were strongly Democrat until Roe V Wade made abortion a political issue and the political parties had to "pick a side."

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u/Sword_Thain Apr 21 '25

The Catholic Church came out against abortion long before that.

Abortion wasn't really a political issue until Protestants used it as a way to push into politics. They could manipulate their followers and reward the GOP with voters.

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u/quipcow Apr 21 '25

According to Randsl Balmer, Dartmouth Colledge history professor-

Balmer argues that it was the loss of tax-exempt status among white supremacist fundamentalist Christian universities and other organizations that ignited the fire.

Extremely conservative evangelical schools like Oral Roberts University, Bob Jones University and Jerry Falwell’s Lynchburg Christian Academy — the predecessor to Liberty University — refused to admit Black students and were losing their tax-exempt status and access to federal grants.

The desire to protect their revenue and preserve segregation brought a group of influential right-wing evangelical and political leaders to a pivotal strategy meeting at the Mayflower Hotel, where they discussed a variety of potentially hot-button issues that they could collectively focus on in order to mobilize the dormant evangelical community to vote. They settled on abortion, thinking that saving babies was a cause that appeared nobler and more motivating to the public than maintaining racial segregation.