Thank you for reading and responding. All of this. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and I had no clue about the evangelical backlash, framed around abortion, that really arose as reaction to Civil Rights Movement from Brown v. Board onward, culminating in the Bob Jones stuff.

It's turned into minority rule, as so many have pointed out, and that minority rule impacts everyone.

Smith, and others, have shown me that until someone looks at themselves and engages with what they see, the messiness as well as the beauty, we'll keep going down this path, staring at the ever expanding chasm.