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Letters: Michael Gerson summed it up well

Re “Religious right bows down to Trump” (Viewpoints, Oct. 16): Politics make for strange bedfellows. The divide between liberal and conservative, faith and agnostic, leads many voters to reduce complex choices to binary decisions. A desire to ban abortion led too many people with otherwise inclusionery values to have their morals co-opted by a misogynistic demagogue. Michael Gerson said it best: “When Christians ally their faith with bias and exclusion, they are influencing how the public views Christianity itself.”

Tim Worley, Sacramento

This story was originally published October 17, 2017 at 9:32 AM with the headline "Letters: Michael Gerson summed it up well."

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