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Non-religious Republicans of Lemmy, how do you reconcile your non-religious convictions with a party that bases a lot of its policies on religion? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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E.g. abortion rights, anti-LGBTQ, contempt for atheism, Christian nationalism, etc.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago

I completely agree. This is a much better argument to make. For example, I generally concede that abortion = killing, but not murder. In the same way that killing a person is justified (for example, self-defense applies here), sometimes it's justified to have an abortion, even if that is killing a baby. And because it involves such personal, sometimes traumatic territory, that should be between you and your doctor only.

But that's a different argument than what you began with.

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