"Now, less than four years after widespread declarations that the religious right had taken over the Republican Party, these social conservatives seem almost powerless to influence its nomination process.Good news!
It isn’t because they lack numbers. Pollster Tony Fabrizio has documented that moralists remain the biggest slice of GOP voters. More than a third of 2004 votes for President Bush were cast by evangelicals.
Yet organizations designed to mobilize these voters have atrophied. The Christian Coalition is a shadow of its former self. Efforts to relaunch the defunct Moral Majority haven’t fared much better. Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy are dead, Pat Robertson past his prime.
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When The Washington Post once described religious conservatives as largely “poor, uneducated and easy to command,” evangelicals protested that they weren’t poor or uneducated. Now, neither are they easy to command."
Politico.com, Sep 24, 2007
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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Yes, very good news. I just hope we can avoid the sort of complacency that sometimes results from this sort of development.
I'm tired to the church trying to use it's power to rule instead of using its power to SERVE. It's a good thing we've lost this power over the republican party...maybe now the evangelical community will stop being the "yes-men" for the republican party and and transcend partisan politics.
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