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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