Heresy and you

I've been following the U-Minn scandal, and the latest result...well, I wonder.  I mean, firing the guy after the bowl game is a douchebag move, albeit not quite as d-baggy as supporting his players (vocally).  What happens next...the issue of course is that the players didn't have any power before this, so...it would  be interesting to see if everyone transferred (or tried to); can't have a team without players, of course.  Now, if the boycott spread to other sports -- hoops is in Big Ten play, you know -- that WOULD be an issue, but I suspect it will not, given that the behavior in question was...more than egregious.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/29/14112084/war-on-poverty-brooklyn-great-society

I sort of want to read this, but as I have 70 other books or so to read...but I think this article's premise is correct...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-03/high-noon-for-the-religious-left

This could be me, but I suspect that the rise of the religious right as a political force happened because of the shift to the GOP in the South; if you think about it, the religious groups (Southern Baptists and Evangelicals) most affiliated with the GOP now all have their base there.  I suspect that it wasn't so much cultural issues (not that they were unimportant) but that people realized there was a yuge group of voters out there looking for a home, and given the possibility for electoral dominance...well, people started to court voters in the pews.  Then, with the legalization of abortion, there came about another group of voters -- Catholics -- in places where these groups had no outreach, and while it took a while longer, and the growth of other issues (vouchers), it paid off.

The flip side, as Russell Moore pointed out, is that aside from the African-American congregations, there aren't really large blocs of Episcopalians, Unitarians, and Jesuits out there; getting another 1,000 votes in Lakewood is nice but won't cut the butter.  Nor are these groups looking for a new home, politically; they are already preaching to the converted.  It's a matter of getting other religious groups to join them, and given the theological schisms, I suspect that the politics simply won't allow for a mating.