Teaching America to Fear Christians, by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Feb 29, 2024

Are you terrified by “the peril of the theocratic future toward which the country has been hurtling?”

Neither am I. But Linda Greenhouse is. That fear is the latest fashion on the radical left.

In a remarkably piece of alarmist propaganda, responding to the Alabama court decision that ruled a frozen embryo has legal rights, the New York Times columnist lamented that the US today “is awash in religiosity when it comes to human reproduction.” I confess that I hadn’t noticed. The public debate—at least as conducted in outlets like the New York Times tends to begin and end with the invocation of the word “choice.” If religion is mentioned, it is only to claim that all arguments against abortion are based on sectarian belief and therefore must be suppressed.

Greenhouse tells us: “Rhetoric about the ‘sanctity of unborn life,’ in the words of Alabama’s constitution, has for too long been cost-free, a politician’s cheap thrill.” You’ll notice here the implicit message that a politician who uses that rhetoric should pay a cost. If a pro-life columnist said the same sort of thing, it would immediately be cited as an invitation to violence. ….

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