Who?
Rod Dreher
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Some Pharisees came to [Jesus] to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Matthew 19:3-4Bingo
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Dreher is a very good writer with an interesting perspective. He has for quite some time been of the mind that contemporary American culture is increasingly hostile to religion and those who hold religious beliefs, and so it is not too far-fetched to say that he has a "sky is falling" orientation that has been in place long before the Covid-19 outbreak. I don't agree with all of the particulars of his writing, but he has some insightful things to say about American politics and society.
He also believes in the literal existence of demons, lolAnd he thinks that contemporary America is literally like the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
You know -- the ones where schools and factories shut down, hundreds of thousands were killed, and temples and cultural sites were destroyed en masse.
So there's more than a little Chicken Little in Dreher.Certainly schools and factories shutting down, hundreds of thousands dying, an cultural sites and religious sites attacked could never happen in America!
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Divorce is allowed in the Orthodox faith.
The man is going through a midlife crisis. He got a tattoo and everything.
Also forbidden by the Bible?
Tattoos.Is that quite accurate? I thought it was specifically tattoos in memory of the dead.
Leviticus 19:28, “You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or incise any marks on yourselves.”
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You see religious gheys become right wing authoritarians because they think that just because they have a radical spiritual rift between their seggsual orientation and their ethical convictions, and therefore need harsh discipline to remain continent, everyone else does too. Conservatives complain I'm engaging in ad hominem attacks or being hypocritical in criticizing Dreher for being ghey, but the truth is it's directly relevant that he's trying to treat the whole world as if we all shared his own personal struggles, and that he hasn't arrived at his political views from a disinterested process of ratiocination.
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You see religious gheys become right wing authoritarians because they think that just because they have a radical spiritual rift between their seggsual orientation and their ethical convictions, and therefore need harsh discipline to remain continent, everyone else does too. Conservatives complain I'm engaging in ad hominem attacks or being hypocritical in criticizing Dreher for being ghey, but the truth is it's directly relevant that he's trying to treat the whole world as if we all shared his own personal struggles, and that he hasn't arrived at his political views from a disinterested process of ratiocination.
Is their any more research RE: right wing closet cases who are ultra fundamentalist ?
About 15 years ago I pointed out the the RNC chair at the time had been outed and received flak for the same reasons you described
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It looks like our friend has caused an international incident for the crime of reporting the words the leader of his host country said during a press conference. Such freedom!
https://www.thebulwark.com/how-rod-dreher-caused-an-international-scandal-in-eastern-europe/
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You see religious gheys become right wing authoritarians because they think that just because they have a radical spiritual rift between their seggsual orientation and their ethical convictions, and therefore need harsh discipline to remain continent, everyone else does too. Conservatives complain I'm engaging in ad hominem attacks or being hypocritical in criticizing Dreher for being ghey, but the truth is it's directly relevant that he's trying to treat the whole world as if we all shared his own personal struggles, and that he hasn't arrived at his political views from a disinterested process of ratiocination.
You armchair psychologists are so funny!