![]() ![]() Jack Phillips’s lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom have framed his and other similar cases as efforts to protect Americans who have been caught in the crosshairs of Kennedy’s Obergefell decision and LGBTQ rights advocates. They were the only polled group with this majority view.Ĭases like Masterpiece are a symptom of white conservative Christians feeling like they have become outsiders in what they believe is their country. ![]() In a recent PRRI survey on American values, a majority of white evangelicals said they believed wedding-based businesses should be able to refuse same-sex couples. This conservatism is mostly white, and rigid on sexuality and gender norms. But in this case, we have to see this nationalist rhetoric through the lens of Christian conservatism. It’s a common rhetorical twist, one that enshrines Americanness with an impenetrable purity by contrasting it with the country’s most evil and uncontroversial enemy.
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