Christian Right mocked war opponents as insufficiently masculine

Evidence

Representatives of the Christian Right were not above insinuating a deficit of manliness among those who opposed the president’s policies. “Freezeniks” were sissies who lacked the courage to stand up to the communist threat. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 260

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how weaponized masculinity was deployed as a silencing tactic against political opponents within a religious community — the ‘sissy’ epithet as moral argument.