The Religious Ties of the Republican Party

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There are some people in the United States who wish to marginalize religion and then make it disappear altogether. Lenin and Stalin would have loved them for they would have made good citizens of the now defunct U.S.S.R.

Scott of IA 12:30PM December 21, 2010

still waiting for christians to prove their "exceptionalism"
know plenty of christians-just none that are any better than my non-christian friends or family( most are far worse)
thank goodness for critical thought
because that seems to be missing from most
conservative-christian-teabagger-republicans that i have
shared ideas with.
true wisdom is knowing what to overlook

bohanon 11:51PM December 12, 2010

Common decency is getting thrown out the window with the hate tactics of Republicans and their devil spawn the Westboro Baptist protesters.
These Westboro Baptists are the direct outcome of Republican incivility and intolerance.
Using religious hate in politics is unacceptable and it time we call Republicans to the mat for their sacrilegious rhetoric and hatemongering.

Rebecca of PA 3:36PM December 09, 2010

L.Ron Hubbard, Joe Smith, Lyndon LaRouche and Glenn Beck:
The four horsemen of Republican theocracy and notably none are Christians.
Conservatives are religiously reactionary, yes, but they don't adhere to the teachings of Jesus Christ because they think its socialist propaganda to take care of the downtrodden and poor.
Republican ties to religion have been cosmetic and a facade to raise money and bamboozle voters. With the new Citizens United decision, Republicans have dropped most illusions to supporting moral issues and taking the massive conservative graft proves the Republicans are the immoral minority ready to install fascism in this country with all the money they are throwing at elections.

Jacob of IA 3:24PM December 09, 2010

I'd say about the time the Democrats embraced secular, progressive humanism and abortion.
"Glenn Beck is going to have problems reaching out to evangelicals because he's such a strong Mormon."
Beck, "a strong Mormon". Really? Beck has repeatedly stated that he joined the Mormons because he enjoyed the social contact, and the moral values of the Mormons he had met. He also stated that he and his wife liked the feeling of "community" they found among Mormons. To his credit (I think) he seldom mentions the wacky, criminal founder, Joe Smith (no doubt an ancestor of L.Ron Hubbard - I think they're both supposed to managing an alternate universe these days) of his "faith" or its new world fantasies and magic crystals. I think it safe to say that Beck doesn't want to be too closely identified with the proven falsehoods and absurdities of Mormon theology.
While on the Mormon topic, I'd like to point out that if Mitt runs for president then I would suspect that the left media would gleefully "educate" the public regarding the fundamentals and history of Church of Latter Day Saints.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:33PM December 03, 2010

"Whether the fanatics use religion as the NSDAP did in Germany as a cloak for their agenda or whether a religion itself becomes the ruling entity" - it is sad, but even when religion is not yet ruling entity, as the islamists in Germany now - the German's children are beaten by Arab's children in the public schools in the neighbors, where there this kind of immigrants is majority or even many of them. Or, as in England, where the religious law (Sharia) is permitted to use instead of law of this country (even only in some cases).
Why? Maybe because the Christians now are less aggressive or more civilized, or maybe because the islamists are using their religion more as ideology, the ideology of supremacy and aggression. We have to look in any side of danger.

Iosif Plagov of IL 11:07AM December 03, 2010

Now we're laughing all the way to the election booth. What we were able to do was play down the social issues and ride the libertarian resentment against the bailouts.
But we all knew behind the scenes where our new leaders stood. Some were more overt. Unfortunately, they did not get elected.
But others did, and our goal to take back this Christian nation is well underway folks.

Seethelightofgod of ID 4:02PM December 02, 2010

As a Mormon, and a democrat, I find it utterly ridiculous to assume that just because a person "fits" neatly into a box with a label, that all his or hers beliefs sit in neat little compartments. One of the true tragedies of our day is the ubiquitous patronizing received by persons of faith. Evangelicals are evangelicals. Mormons are Mormons. This does not mean that you can see every political notion that either person holds. Stop it already. Don't tell me how to vote. And don't assume that I vote according to a profile. After all, I did vote for Obama.

Kay of UT 2:53PM December 02, 2010

Most of us have seen what happens to a country when a religious body gets into power. One need only to look as far as Iran and Afghanistan to see how the lives of the citizens are destroyed and any chance of freedom and justice disappear. The "Christian Right" is neither particularly Christian or right, they are merely a fanatical group attempting to take over this country. In April of 1938, the general elections in Germany gave a fanatical group the power they needed to control the country. Soon, judges were removed from the bench for not supporting the party line, various minorities were disenfranchised and eventually arrested and civil rights ceased to exist. Whether the fanatics use religion as the NSDAP did in Germany as a cloak for their agenda or whether a religion itself becomes the ruling entity, we have numerous historical and contemporaneousness examples to see what happened to the people. Slowly we are seeing the "Christian Right" do EXACTLY the same in this country. Judges have been removed for supporting the constitution, minorities are targeted and denied rights. When will the people of America wake up and see where we are headed? Is our end going to be like Germany in 1945 or Afghanistan of today?

John Bartlett of NY 2:53PM December 02, 2010

We have seen in Russia an almost total gutting of religion from its society and government beginning in the 1917 Revolution. Today we have a Russia which seems ruthless and self-serving, a totally secular entity. What will happen if religion is removed from all discourse in the U.S.? What or who will act as a moral authority and motivator? Is science and liberalism up to the task of providing any morality in the wake of religion's absence? Can you trust your fellow citizens to create on their own a moral society and government? Will the First Amendment be altered with the Religion Clause removed by a constitutional convention?

Scott of IA 1:29PM December 02, 2010