Moreover, I want to call this an outgrowth of US-centric worldviews, furthered by gross overestimations of Rome's impact on local Christian culture:
My country's Conference of Catholic Bishops has vocally joined the culture war on the side of the queers and haven't flinched even once so far.
"There are so many Nazi mobs touting for the votes and approval of gullible Christians by selling their mislabelled hatred as 'Christian values' and gullible Christians fall for it. This obviously means that Christian beliefs and Nazi beliefs are the same."
Are y'all really this fucking dense?
In light of this, I guess my experience with being a Catholic Christian, actively participating in Christian practice and everyday culture, might be very different from the picture painted in light of all the madness surrounding Christian institutions, including the Catholic Church, in US culture.
Where I'm from, the Catholic Bishops aren't only siding with queers against queerphobic hatemongering, but have also staunchly renounced white nationalism and ideologized conservatism.
They've repeatedly confirmed that no Catholic with a clear conscience can support, or vote for, such politics.
All this is possible, all this can be done, all this is what Christian culture can look like, and how Catholic institutions can act.
Yet, we'll rather assume the US experience to be universal, instead of acknowledging what happened and figuring out how to make the same things happen everywhere.
