Into The Desert With Ye

9:11 pm EST November 6th, 2008 | Politics | 10 Comments

The religious far right deals with exile. Don’t write, fellas.

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10 Responses to “Into The Desert With Ye”

  1. Merkwurdigliebe says:
    November 6, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Good riddance.

  2. canadian bacon says:
    November 6, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    I posted this elsewhere but it’s more appropriate here:

    You know they are hurting when Livid Levine aired a speech that Reagan gave in the 1960s. I guess they are starting from scratch, in the desert where water is scarce and the food is prickly.

  3. Sea Isle City Guy says:
    November 6, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    Things will be different for awhile, but the cycle will continue again in about 8 years. If you really, seriously, look at the big picture, you’ll see that things aren’t any different than back in 1992.

  4. Jaim says:
    November 7, 2008 at 12:20 am

    Evangelicals still have a voice, they just no longer have a Republican party interested in pretending that the Evangelical/Rockefeller Republican/libertarian coalition doesn’t contain some major conflicts of interest and ideology.

    Reagan could bring them together, but it was wishful thinking that a moron like Bush II could manage the same thing, at least for an extended period of time.

  5. jr says:
    November 7, 2008 at 2:01 am

    “Carol McCain deserved it”-Albert Mohler

  6. Mylegacy says:
    November 7, 2008 at 2:07 am

    I still find it odd that American Christians would not vote for health care for everyone’s children, but gleefully vote for the death penalty and war never ending.

    In Canada, Tommy Douglas, a socialist and a Baptist preacher (who was recently named Canada’s Best Person Ever) brought in Universal Health Care in Saskatchewan and later the Liberals brought it to all of Canada. Canadians, including the Christians, have ended the death penalty generations ago. Christians in Canada KNOW that abortion and gay(ness) are PERSONAL MORAL ISSUES more so than political issues.

    Yet, American Christians would elect a woman as V-President that doesn’t know the countries in NAFTA nor that Africa is a continent not a country – all because she is prepared to deny a woman’s right to choose what happens to, and in, her body. Obscene, absolutely profane. Too many American Christians would – and have for 8 long years – voted such that their own country was run by a near moron who destroyed your nation socially, morally, economically – all to get gays and stop abortions – madness…..

    Oliver, you live in a very strange country. The pity is the world NEEDS its most powerful nation to lead in the battles for reason, science, justice, religious tolerance and political freedom – finally we’ve got at least a glimmer of hope. Obama.

  7. Oliver Willis says:
    November 7, 2008 at 2:59 am

    Don’t paint with too broad a brush. Sen. Obama only lost the votes of Protestants, and then only by 9%. Every other religious group went Democratic. Evangelicals are probably the most politically organized group in the world of religion, but they clearly don’t speak for everyone of faith.

  8. merl says:
    November 7, 2008 at 3:45 am

    I know that I was shocked to learn that Christians voted Republican.

  9. Pete says:
    November 7, 2008 at 5:55 am

    When will the religious right realise that neither party is really interested in messing with Roe v Wade except when using it to try and win votes.

    According to the article, they said Bush had a ‘moral mandate’ in 2004 – and he did what with it exactly ? Much the same as McCain would have done, I imagine – nothing at all. Unfortunate they can’t see through the Republicans and vote in their own best interest.

  10. canadian bacon says:
    November 7, 2008 at 11:15 am

    Canadians have their share of nasty Christians. Think of the Reform Party, now the Conservative Party and the Heritage Party. We’ve had doctors murdered for performing abortions The thing here is that any ruling party must govern from pretty close to the center, a little to the right or left is OK. Even our current leader, Steve Harper, learned a while back that it’s best to hide your parochial religious beliefs if you want to win elections. That’s why Manning never got anywhere; he did not want to hide his conservative religious positions. They’re here, just not as influential and politically organized. The Christian right is a global movement that has just lost some ground.