[Essay] | Exiled, by Meghan O’Gieblyn | Harper’s Magazine
“It’s clear that Pence sees himself as the defender of an imperiled religious minority. During the uproar after the RFRA, he did not refer to the country’s supposed religious foundations, nor did he appeal to Christian values as an all-purpose national ethic. Instead, drawing on the vocabulary of identity politics, he declared that the law would “empower” religious people whose liberties were being “infringed upon.” Pence had tapped into the language of exile, and by the time he joined Trump’s campaign, he had become fluent, promising James Dobson that a Trump-Pence Administration would be “dedicated to preserving the liberties of our people, including the freedom of religion that’s enshrined in our Bill of Rights.” “
Mike Pence and the evangelical fantasy of persecution
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