You just correctly stated the reasons for us to be allies. You foresee that an attack against Christianity is ultimately going to lead to an attack on what you hold dear.
Politics is a secular endeavor. We use our faith to form and advocate for what we believe politically, but that’s where it ends. I often argue that the best Christians are too busy leading their lives and enriching others to really care about it beyond voting.
My main issue is guns, not abortion. Though I believe in God and His protection, I strongly support the right to defend oneself.
For me, life issues. In part, because I see the state over and over again eroding what it means to be a person. That’s a political stance that comes out of my moral underpinnings, but is shaped no doubt on the anvil of the American individualist tradition.
It’s horrible to be killing babies, from a moral pov, because they are living beings.
Politically, what its saying is that the state can mandate who is a person worthy of life. As they also do in euthanasia cases, when personhood is legally stripped from someone. Eventually, it could, if unchecked become a cost/value ratio issue...you cost to much, the state strips you of personhood, and sends you down the tubes.
Guns is right up there with this for me, because guns were intended by the founders as an insurance policy against tyranny.
The PC I see as a threat to our American culture, because they tell you what to believe, and are quite totalitarian in what they accept as correct. And their POV counters much of what has traditionally been the bulwark of American society...the value of men, of individuals, of family and morality.
Anyway, this is how it works with me.
Yes, I agree that we should be allies. I do feel that the current FR fracas is counterproductive.