Young Christian Right Leaders Urge Humor and Sarcasm to Sell GOP's Abortion Agenda

Salon: GOP plan to appeal to millennials: “Make abortion funny”, by Alex Seitz-Wald: 

Young Christian-right leaders think the answer to their problems with young voters lies in more snark

“How do you make abortion funny?” That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters (who are are moving even further and further away from the Christian-right on marriage and other issues).

Abortion has to be made funny, the thinking goes, because funny sells on social media, and that’s where one goes to court young people. “You can engage with sarcasm, it’s hard with the abortion issue, but you have to,” said Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins at a breakout panel at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington today on how to win millennial voters. . . .