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The Flooding of Morality Back Into American Politics
The Democratic Party has to do everything it can to keep religion out of politics for the sake of its survival. The reconciliation between Protestants and Catholics, which happens in the 1970s and 80s, allows Christian moralism to come flooding back into American politics. And one manifestation of this is not simply that Catholics are on the Supreme Court, but they feel very free to engage in moral rulings without hesitation.