MAGA's sexy beer calendar scandal cracks up the Christian right

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MAGA's sexy beer calendar scandal cracks up the Christian right
MAGA has learned that sex sells — but it’s undermining the anti-abortion, abstinence-only message

By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED JANUARY 12, 2024 6:00AM (EST)


(Salon) In our era of wars, political violence, and climate catastrophe, Republicans have shown yet again that they have their priorities straight by freaking out over a sexy beer calendar.

Ultra Right Beer, which markets itself as an "anti-woke" brew for people worried Bud Light doesn't hate queer people enough, last month released a pin-up calendar of right-wing women. The calendar is relatively tame for what it is. It's nothing more than trying to prop up the sad fantasy of lonely MAGA men that hot women might one day date them.

Some of the pin-ups are even wearing shirts. But the whole thing outraged many Republicans who, As Zack Beauchamp at Vox reports, complained that sticking your booty in a camera while flashing come-hither eyes runs counter to Christian values. "If conservatives aren’t morally grounded Christians, what are we even ‘conserving’?" complained former Donald Trump lawyer and confessed criminal Jenna Ellis. Speaking for this faction, Madeline Kearns at the National Review wrote that conservatives should stand for "a courtship culture, one that emphasizes male and female sexual complementarity, abstinence before marriage, fidelity within it, openness to the gift of children." (For those who don't speak Republican, "openness to children" is code for banning birth control.)

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In many circles, the dirtbag aesthetic of the Joe Rogan world has been combined with a lot of Jesus talk. Many people on the right who never darken a church doorstep now proclaim themselves "evangelical." It's become an identity marker more than a faith, a way to create a tribal identity for white conservatives that runs deeper than mere partisan preference. Even the Proud Boys, who were initially sold as a secular authoritarian group, are now mixing showy prayer with all the hard drinking. Indeed, many of the women who posed for the cheesecake photos espouse conservative Christianity. ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/12/magas-sexy-beer-calendar-scandal-cracks-up-the-christian-right/

[Chainfire]

1. Who says you can't have it both ways?

[Probatim]

4. Do as I say - not as I do.

[mobeau69]

2. I've gotta watch, err read this piece a few more times before I can critique.

Movie trivia:

What character in what movie said “The day you stop looking is the day you die.”?

[marble falls]

5. Hooo haw! Scent of a Woman.

[marble falls]

3. Finally a wedge issue. A fairly tame calendar. I'll take it.

[mobeau69]

6. Wedge issue

[Martin68]

7. Doesn't "crack up" mean to amuse, to make someone laugh?

[lonely bird]

8. Go tell it to Ronnie Raygun

Newt Gingrich, Lauren Boebert, Empty Greene and every other p.o.s. conservative who couldn’t keep their hands and genitals away from others when they were married.