The GOP can't afford to write God off
Here is a compelling argument by USA Today's Rod Dreher that far from being the reason for the Republican defeats in the last two elections (as secularists both in and out of the media, who are sufficiently out of touch to believe that their viewpoint is representative of the nation as a whole, continue to argue), the values represented by America's religious voters represent not only the GOP's pathway back to victory, but is very heart and soul.
And he's right. True, there are elements of the religious right which are rooted in ideologies as theologically problematic as they are politically absurd. And one might quibble with some aspects of, say, Mike Huckabee's approach to the relationship of church and state. But it's worth remembering that possibly the most able articulation of a relationship between the two which not only the Founders but Martin Luther and a goodly portion of the Western religious tradition would embrace is a gentleman by the name of Barack Obama.
The man who defeated the GOP in the last election is under no illusions that the "religious right"
is a lunatic fringe, and the deluded secularists who radically misread his election should not be allowed to mislead the party for whose defeat they would fervently pray- if they prayed at all- into blaming its rootedness in the Western moral and ethical tradition for its recent misadventures at the polls.
HT: Real Clear Politics
And he's right. True, there are elements of the religious right which are rooted in ideologies as theologically problematic as they are politically absurd. And one might quibble with some aspects of, say, Mike Huckabee's approach to the relationship of church and state. But it's worth remembering that possibly the most able articulation of a relationship between the two which not only the Founders but Martin Luther and a goodly portion of the Western religious tradition would embrace is a gentleman by the name of Barack Obama.
The man who defeated the GOP in the last election is under no illusions that the "religious right"
is a lunatic fringe, and the deluded secularists who radically misread his election should not be allowed to mislead the party for whose defeat they would fervently pray- if they prayed at all- into blaming its rootedness in the Western moral and ethical tradition for its recent misadventures at the polls.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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