Whatever happened to the religious right?

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Posted at 04:58 PM ET, 06/05/2012
Whatever happened to the religious right?
By David Mason

Conservative Christians are starting to line up behind Mormon Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

But they’re not doing so comfortably, and not without clinging to a last, non-negotiable condition that, ironically, makes the conservative Christian voting bloc the force most responsible these days for the secularization of America.

Last month gave us two studies of Mormonism and the American voter. John Green of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at The University of Akron concludes that “the type of campaign messaging that can sway voters away from supporting Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon will be difficult to counter.” On the other hand, Matthew Chingos and Michael Henderson of the Brookings Institution say that their study shows that Romney’s Mormonism has only a “trivial effect” on voters, and that political conservatives—including Christian evangelicals—are “more likely to support Romney” because he is a Mormon.

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Of more import, perhaps, is the Christian right’s role in the de-religioning of America. By asserting that Romney’s own religion doesn’t matter to his candidacy, and by insisting that a Romney presidency not in any way be a Mormon presidency, the Christian right demands not freedom of religion in this most religiously free of countries, but demands freedom from religion. Indeed, by hanging its support for the Republican candidate on the condition that he keep his religion out of his campaign and (presumably) out of his oval office, evangelical Christians affirm that public discourse in America is better off without authentic religious faith.

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. what happened? They won.

They've completely taken over the republican party and its agenda. Trying to somehow parse Mormons, one of the most rightwing of rightwing christian sects, out of the 'christian right' is yet another example of how our paid thinksters are employed to turn shit into shinola.

"Of more import, perhaps, is the Christian right’s role in the de-religioning of America." - serious disconnect with reality.