The Christian Coalition framed health-care reform as a radical social agenda

Evidence

In addition to the constant din of corruption allegations, of more immediate concern was the First Lady’s ill-fated attempt to reform American health care. Not only did this smack of socialism as far as conservatives were concerned, but the Christian Coalition insisted that health-care reform concealed a “radical social agenda,” ostensibly by promoting abortion, gay rights, and sex education. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 326

Categorization

• XREF: The framing of policy as radical social agenda is structurally identical to the 1990s Christian-right response to the Equal Rights Amendment — policy opposition always sits atop gender/sexuality politics. — connects to: 1993 religious-conservative political mobilization targeted feminists and liberal social policy — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 52; Reform movements succeed by marrying their cause to prevailing religious currents — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 409; Christian-right leader rhetoric is calibrated for an energized congregation — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 60
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: 1993 religious-conservative political mobilization targeted feminists and liberal social policy — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 52; Reform movements succeed by marrying their cause to prevailing religious currents — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 409; Christian-right leader rhetoric is calibrated for an energized congregation — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 60