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Punching Right While Leaning Left

In light of our previous posts, we see that the underlying issue involves, as some others have well-noted recently, Big Eva in general and those conservatives in Reformed denominations in particular punching hard against those to the right of them on doctrinal and practical issues (politically too usually), while also extending an open arm and warm embrace for those to the left, sometimes quite far left, of them. This “sets the tone” for acceptable rhetoric. It is the Overton Window, which I say just to sound smarter than I am. If you punch hard to the right (or at least think of those further right as bug-eyed aliens) you are faithful, if you punch hard/speak sharply against those to the left your behavior is suddenly the opposite of love , insensitive, unkind, even misogynistic and racist. If you poke fun or try to hit hard those to the right of you ( as Aimee Byrd herself has done , with sarcastic images to boot), you are doing the Lord’s work or at least are not accused of anythin