For Christian nationalists, family-policy stances serve political boundary-making, not personal morality

Evidence

The point here is not to implicate Christian nationalism in a tendency toward hypocrisy. Rather, we wish to underscore what Christian nationalism is in essence. Despite its ostensible association with family values and marriage, its primary concern with these issues is not moral in a personal sense, but political. Christian nationalism seeks to draw boundaries around “proper” familial arrangements for the purpose of maintaining order—perhaps “God’s order” to some degree, but mostly the “traditional order” where families follow the patriarchal, nuclear norm. Thus, Ambassadors and Accommodators can simultaneously be extremely concerned with condemning divorce and supporting policies that limit it in the abstract, even while they are no less likely to experience it themselves. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 433

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Tightly names the mechanism separating political belief from lived behavior in a way that generalizes well beyond this single issue.
• XREF: connects to: Christian nationalism functions as a power grab disguised in religious language, not genuine piety — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 455; Family household was reframed as a site of political discipline; Christian nationalist adherence is primarily political rather than religious — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 214 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Family household was reframed as a site of political discipline #corroborates (0.82)