Comment on [deleted]

• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh well. If you say you’re being honest, I guess you’re both sides argument must be credible.

  Can you point to any specific voting block that is comparable to the evangelicals on this single issue?

  Can you point to any Republican constituency that would vote for a moderate Democrat, but for abortion?

  source

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s the difference between a moderate Republican and a moderate Democrat, besides abortion? I’m not asking that rhetorically - I’m talking about someone like Mitt Romney when he was the Republican governor of very blue Massachusetts.

    source

    • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      (He was also against gay marriage, but that’s no longer politically relevant.)

      I think it very much is politically relevant. Who would such a person appoint to the supreme court, if given the opportunity?

      source

      • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gay marriage was politically relevant then - that’s one reason I didn’t vote for him. But even then gay marriage opponents were losing the fight, and since then they have been thoroughly defeated. By 2020 even Donald Trump was speaking out in favor of gay rights.

        Anyway, the point I wanted to make was that a present-day governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney would oppose abortion but not gay marriage.

        source