Commentary: Gay Republicans like George Santos want to deny it, but hating gays is part of the MAGA package.
But there are enough Americans — based on recent polling data, around 30 to 40 million Americans – who regularly list same-sex marriage and the acceptance of gay people as the signs that America is headed for moral collapse. Intersectionality is real. If the Right is coming for one out-group, you can bet that sooner or later they’re going to come for others.
This is a movement of grievance, part of the “paranoid style in American politics,” which sees America both as God’s chosen country and as threatened from within by rootless cosmopolitans who don’t share its core patriotism. It’s been this way since the Red and lavender scares of the 1950s, through Anita Bryant in the 1970s, the Moral Majority in the 1980s, the Tea Party of the 2010s, and MAGA of today.
And the federal court system, stacked with Trump appointees hand-picked by the right-wing theocrat Leonard Leo, has distorted the meaning of “religious liberty” to include everything from discriminating against gay couples who want to adopt a child to opting out of public health regulations. All this while claiming, as Justice Alito’s and Gorsuch’s have done repeatedly, that Christians are being discriminated against.
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