At the Vote Pray Stand Summit, Christian Parents and Their “Rights” Take Center Stage
“ ‘We need strong men,’ Gaines said to a chorus of applause. ‘We need men to be willing to fulfill their Biblical role, which is to protect and provide.’ That devotion to gender essentialism has always animated the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more ; what’s new is the intensity with which it is now focused on trans people. And as that focus intensifies, the rhetoric itself is darkening. I lost count of the number of times speakers mentioned demons or the ‘demonic agenda’ they believe is at work on the left. Fred Clarkson, who has long studied the Christian right for Political Research Associates, said that’s a significant departure from five years ago, when you hardly heard about demons at all. He sees it as evidence of the mainstreaming of a fast-growing strain of Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more Christianity called the A movement originally identified and named in the 1990s by evangelical theologian C. Peter Wagner. The NAR has since become the leading political and cultural vision of the Pentecostal and Charismatic wing of evangelical Christianity. Learn more . As Clarkson has written, many adherents of this strain believe that nonbelievers are literally infested with demons.”