How the Christian right embraced voter suppression

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : For decades, the Christian-right foot soldiers who form the backbone of the Republican Party have regularly and enthusiastically showed up for legislative battles over religious freedom and reproductive and LGBTQ rights.
52% : Republican state Sen. Bryan Hughes, an author of the voting restriction and anti-abortion bills, is one of about a dozen Texas legislators who serve on Garner's advisory council.
49% : On September 1, they scored one of their biggest victories yet: the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and deputizes private citizens to report anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion.
49% : In a March appearance in the Family Research Council's video series "Pray Vote Stand," Blackwell, who is Black, called the For the People Act a "heist" and a "power grab" that would "stifle individual religious liberty and the centrality of God in our lives."
38% : However, issues like life, religious freedom, and school choice will never win if the vote is being diluted by radical leftists exploiting the system to cheat."
37% : When state Rep. Park Cannon, a Black Democrat, knocked on the door to gain entry to the event, she was arrested for obstructing law enforcement and disrupting the General Assembly.

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