[blargey]

The idea is more that there wouldn't be as much fertile ground to sow fears about the "moral fabric of society" if everyone felt economically/socially secure in the first place. And that the nexus of "culture war" issues is sold as a package deal, a singular unified explanation for people's existing, vague economic anxieties (in an unabashedly conspiracy theory way).

[hn_acc1]

Exactly - "God's judgment on America - bad economy, less jobs, natural disasters, etc" because they are allowing the "sinners" to "sin".

Tony Perkins (IIRC) was famous for preaching that God sends floods due to gay people specifically, until his own house flooded...