You're arguing for a scriptural basis for abortion. You're not just emphasizing in your politics different aspects of your faith, but you're very much challenging quite widespread interpretations of it. For the past 50 years in this country, the religious right, a political movement, convinced a lot of Christians in America that the two most important issues were abortion and homosexuality. Two issues that aren't really discussed in Scripture. Abortion is never mentioned. Consensual same sex relationships are never mentioned. (18:23–18:38)
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Asserts that the religious right has prioritized abortion and homosexuality as key issues for Christians in the past 50 years.
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