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  • FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2006 10:00 PM

Evangelicals: GOP Just Not Rabid Enough

The 2004 presidential election campaign was full of post hoc analysis of what went wrong for the Democrats and right for the Republicans. Wonks with little else to do seemed to agree that "values voters" made the difference; that is, people overly concerned with things that generally aren't important at all, or don't fall under the traditional purview of governmental authority like the regulation of gay marriage and anal sex, or statements made in favor of creationist theology by federal authorities. Now that these voters foisted the GOP on the rest of the world through their outpouring of support in the elections, they're discovering a sad truth that many naively believed wasn't true of their personal heroes; many politicians are primarily concerned only with their own, selfish interests. And they're hopping mad about it.

"Conservative Christians are somewhat disenchanted with Republicans," said Kenyn Cureton, vice president for convention relations with the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination with nearly 16 million members.

Religious conservatives are unhappy the Republican-led Congress hasn't paid enough attention to "values issues," he said, noting that even a push this summer against same-sex marriage came too late.

"It has not escaped our notice that they waited until just a few months from the November elections to address our agenda," Cureton said.

Jonathan Gregory, 38, a deacon at Grace Baptist Church in Bethpage, Tenn., said he may not vote GOP this fall, even though he considers himself a Republican and has voted for President Bush.


I have an even better idea; until Mr. Gregory and others who think like him have read the constitution and have a better understanding of the areas our government can and cannot regulate, how about they abstain from voting completely?

It seems amazing that people with a penchant for policing morality and enshrining religion in government would believe that the current administration and its cronies in Congress hadn't gone far enough in the past few years. But if that's what it takes to get them totally uninvolved in the electoral process, that's fine with me.

What's sad is that the dopes who run the DNC will probably read about this and decide that now is the time for Democrats to embrace radical Christian theology in an attempt to woo "swing Evangelicals" who are disenchanted with the Republican party, thus even further alienating Democratic base voters and ensuring yet another Republican victory.

Wait, who was jaded again?

Hat Tip: Americablog

 

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Reaver

Reaver

I'm lost
August 2003

SEP 22, 2006 11:42 PM

Wow. That was nicely balanced piece of reporting wasn't it?

I mean we all know the left would never, ever, force their morality on all of us, right?

I mean they would never, ever, ever try to manipulate the constiution or the truth would they?

Personally, I think the Catholic Church by and large did an awesome job with things on their watch back in the dark ages.

But I also think gay marriage is good, do you know how much tax revenue that shit will bring in?

By god! They will pay even more taxes since odds are they won't have kids!

jonzes

jonzes

Madison, WI
July 2003

SEP 23, 2006 12:00 AM

Reaver said:
Personally, I think the Catholic Church by and large did an awesome job with things on their watch back in the dark ages.



Yeah fuck Gallileo, dude was a smartass. And fuck all those jews, muslims and protestants too.

To the point at hand: The nutjob wing complains evey election season that they have not gotten their way yet. And they will be for a long time because even the people who lie to them to get their votes know half their platform would not fly with 90% of the electorate. Just throw em a bone now and then and blame your failures on the courts, it has worked for 25+ years and it will for a lot more.

justplainleonard

justplainleonard

I'm lost
April 2003

SEP 23, 2006 12:28 AM

Dear god,

Please get a move on with the Rapture so all of the asshole christians can be gone from this wonderful Earth and we can finally have some fun and get important stuff done, like providing health care to everyone, etc.

Thanks.

Psmith

Psmith

Fountain Valley, CA
OLD SKOOL

SEP 23, 2006 01:13 AM

Evangelical christians aren't using the right kind of Pasta sauce. Stupid twats.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

SEP 23, 2006 01:18 AM

Reaver said:
Wow. That was nicely balanced piece of reporting wasn't it?



For the trillionth time, the SG Newswire does not in any way attempt to be balanced. Ever.

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

SEP 23, 2006 03:47 AM

Subrosa said:

Reaver said:
Wow. That was nicely balanced piece of reporting wasn't it?



For the trillionth time, the SG Newswire does not in any way attempt to be balanced. Ever.



But I PAID for this site!!!

FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

SEP 23, 2006 03:52 AM

Ha ha, suckers, now they know that the Rupublicans don't really care about anything other than getting elected (and money). They're all too happy to cozy up with the X-ian Right around election time, but some have a difficult time trying to walk the tight rope between 'normal' voters and the fundamentalist base. Now they know how green or progressive "leftists" feel about the Democratic party being to centrist... Then again, I guess that's what makes the Dem's what they are (united disorganization). Now if we could only get MORE people to vote in this country, the politicians will start to worry a little more about their constituents (it doesn't matter which party you vote for, just fucking vote.)

FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

SEP 23, 2006 03:58 AM

mingol said:
But I PAID for this site!!!



mingol..................................... Ha ha!
............................

figmentation

figmentation

I'm lost
December 2003

SEP 23, 2006 05:59 AM

Seperation of church and state, anybody heard of it?

If it were any other way we would be no better than iran which at one time was a progressive modern state but sunk back into archaic thinking during the 80's. Not only that, didn't we just go to war with somebody who with someone who was using religion to dictate life to a country's people? (And if i remember correctly, most of the world's major religions don't consider women of equal value to men. Its hard to have a balanced democracy when you don't acknowledge over half of the population. Imagine what would happen in the united states!)

(Don't quote me... I still need my coffee...)

orbro

orbro

New York, NY
July 2004

SEP 23, 2006 06:38 AM

don't get me startee about the two partee. and god help us if we were to tolerate anything.

quagmirething

quagmirething

I'm lost
June 2005

SEP 23, 2006 06:47 AM

Hasn't the plan, for some time now, been to pack the supreme court with Christian conservatives? I guess they've not got quite what they wanted. Roberts for instance.

That new documentary about an extreme Christian summer camp has a creepy scene in it where children smashed mugs, using hammers, which had "government" written on them.

Bilharzia

Bilharzia

I'm lost
April 2004

SEP 23, 2006 08:53 AM

Um, two-party political systems blow. All 30 000 000 canucks agree that multi is the way to go...


Wow. That was nicely balanced piece of reporting wasn't it?


I think that this piece is pretty clearly an opinion peice, and not intended to be a dry, factual record of some facts or events. As an aside, I think it would be great if right-wingers would stop wagging their "left-wing conspiracy fingers" at everyone who spouts an opinion that differs from their own. wink

_kungfoo_

_kungfoo_

Los Angeles, CA
April 2005

SEP 23, 2006 08:53 AM

Subrosa said:

Reaver said:
Wow. That was nicely balanced piece of reporting wasn't it?



For the trillionth time, the SG Newswire does not in any way attempt to be balanced. Ever.



Yeah! Whadda think this is?




::snicker::

Reaver

Reaver

I'm lost
August 2003

SEP 23, 2006 11:31 AM

We all know that the Left Wing would never, NEVER, ever, make up a bunch of conspiracy theories......

Really.

By the way, I am agnostic. But this religous right thing is getting old after awhile, I mean the Republicans didn't try to ban video games, or claim that heavy metal lyrics were obscene.

Ticktockman

Ticktockman

Durham, NC
April 2006

SEP 23, 2006 11:42 AM

Leaders of the religious right, and a host of ill-informed or intentionally mendacious twits on the internet, have managed to convince quite a few of their followers that the US was "founded on Christian principles," that we are really a Christian nation that has lost its way due to secular left/commies/Darwinists/gays/ninjas, and that the Establishment Clause doesn't mean what jurisprudence has determined it means over the last couple centuries.

And yeah, the GOP used them, used them well, and they're pissed. Just as "true conservatives" are dismayed over the state of the deficit and catering to ideology over policy on the part of the leadership.

If the Dems were better politicians they'd easily reverse the 1994 Republican sweep.

-TTm

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