Rod Dreher

Rod Dreher is an American Conservative Christian and homophobe[2] who opposes equal rights for LGBT people and dislikes African people.[1][3][4] He is senior editor and a blogger at The American Conservative. Dreher describes himself as a "Righty journalist, Orthodox Christian, Southerner, Europhile, Ignatian (Team Reilly), eclecticist."[5]

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“”The cultural point remains: the more people from alien cultures you have moving into your own, the more fragile and vulnerable your own culture becomes, especially if it is held with less force than the aliens hold their own.
—Rod Dreher[1]

Homophobia and racism

Dreher believes that Christians must be granted the right to discriminate against LGBT people whenever their religion demands it. He is author of the book The Benedict Option, arguing anti-LGBT Christians should withdraw into cult-like isolation modelled on a medieval Benedictine monastery, where they are free to indoctrinate their children in peace.[6]

In 2018, Dreher attracted widespread criticism for his defense of Donald Trump's offensive comments regarding African countries as "shitholes".[4][7][8]

Dreher calls African people “barbarians” but insists that isn’t racist because it is a “perfectly just” description.[3] Dreher took an African-American professor’s remarks out of context, stirring up a racist mob against him in the process.[9]

Dreher supports TERFs, and defends the right of Christians to discriminate against transgender people.[10]

Dreher is a fan of the right-wing Quillette magazine. In March 2020, Dreher wrote an article supporting "race realist" Bo Winegard who was fired from Marietta College.[11]

Theistic evolution

Dreher's exact position on evolution is hard to pin down. He believes that the Christian God created the world but says he does not personally believe in young earth creationism. Although he disagrees with the YEC position he has defended creationists saying "I admire their bullheadedness" and has written articles supporting them.[12][13]

To his credit, Dreher is not a Biblical literalist but he does cherry-pick what bits he wants to believe from the Bible. He has written that "there may not have been a literal garden of Eden, but at some point there was a metaphysical and spiritual event called the Fall."[14]

Dreher has never written that he accepts the evidence for common descent. Until 2011 he worked for the Templeton Foundation which supports theistic evolution.[15][16]

P. Z. Myers has commented that Dreher is “totally ignorant of science”.[17] Dreher has also drawn criticism from Jerry Coyne.[18]

gollark: Society does do some stuff which isn't exactly beneficial to sane thinking, at least, notably almost everything about schools.
gollark: Which I don't know about, but it's clearer!
gollark: It would probably be better expressed as "people are *naturally* not very good at being rational, regardless of what society does/has done".
gollark: Somewhat, which is why I did not say it unqualified as I might have.
gollark: Quality on that is apparently variable however.

See also

References
  1. Two Kinds Of Barbarians
  2. Conservatism's "friendly face" is an old-school homophobe
  3. Rod Dreher’s Bad History
  4. Rod Dreher, Karin McQuillan, and the Evaporation of White Taboo
  5. Rod Dreher. Twitter.
  6. The Christian Retreat From Public Life
  7. Of Sh*tholes and Section 8: A Response to Rod Dreher
  8. Is the Benedict Option based on Christian principles—or white middle-class ones?
  9. Did a Texas A&M Professor Advocate Killing White People?
  10. National Review op-ed says treat trans people with basic dignity, right-wing loses it
  11. Hounding The Heretic Bo Winegard.
  12. In Defense Of Creationists
  13. Ben Carson Is A Creationist. So?
  14. Did Adam And Eve Really Exist?
  15. What good has intelligent design done?
  16. Rod Dreher is back. Let joy be unconfined "I was unable to blog elsewhere, under the rules of the John Templeton Foundation, where I worked until just recently. The Templeton Foundation is a truly remarkable place, and I loved the people and the ideas I got to work with there. But in the end, I’m a writer, and I wanted to return to what makes me happy and gives meaning to my life."
  17. Dreher is really a piece of work
  18. Rod Dreher and the Templeton “bribe”
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