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> being the bastion of various sorts of social conservatism Aren't they conservative out of necessity? You cannot rapidly change interpretation of the holy tex

• danaris 8y ago
  Social progressivism does not require willingness to change holy texts. If you look at the Christian New Testament, most (though possibly not all, I don't claim encyclopedic knowledge of it) of the teachings Jesus line up quite well with social progressive values in the US today—things like caring for the poor, the sick, and immigrants and refugees. The fact that the "religious right" is a thing in the US today doesn't particularly indicate that this is the natural order of things. While I'm no longer religious myself, much of my family still is, but identifies as part of the "Christian left," and pushes very strongly against the view that religious must necessarily equal Republican.