I'm very interested in this kind of question of religiosity and the right-left divide on religion and spirituality. One of the issues that seems to have kind of brought this bubbling up is Roe v Wade and the question of abortion. Abortion is a moral issue but it is an issue of private morality not public morality, she says. I believe and trust and have faith in the moral decision making of the American woman. It's her decision and the government should have absolutely nothing to do with that.
Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help author and former Democratic primary candidate, is back in the race to become US President. She is due to announce officially tomorrow, which will make her the first Democrat to put their name in the ring for 2024, before even Joe Biden. In 2020, Williamson (a total political unknown at the time) vied for the progressive vote, but lost out to the better-known Senator Bernie Sanders. Yet since then she has grown a loyal following of young voters who call themselves the ‘Orb Gang’ in reference to her New Age spiritualism. Can a new generation of American voters take her to the White House? UnHerd's Flo Read spoke to her from the UnHerd studio to find out.
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