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Religious Right Reinvigorated by Donald Trump

posted on December 12, 2016

The Wall Street Journal’s Ian Lovett reports, “Donald Trump’s victory is giving new life to socially conservative causes that have suffered a string of defeats in recent years, potentially reigniting culture wars that many liberals had hoped were all but over.” In interviews, conservative Christians revealed that they expect Trump to rescind the law that prevents federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people, and appoint Supreme Court Justices who will ban gay marriage and overturn Roe v. Wade. Tim Trunkle, a 57 year-old Trump supporter from Charleston said, “I don’t know if Donald Trump is a Christian, but I hope he’ll realize that there was a movement, a wave and maybe a lot of prayer that helped this election go the way it went.”

Read at The Wall Street Journal