Those who are primarily
religious right candidates, from either group, are simply motivated for the wrong reasons... the religious right wants to impose their religious views, some of which are down right weird, on the rest of us.
A minor party
religious right candidate might siphon off enough votes in the Southern states to hand those states to Obama considering that there would be a huge turnout of African Americans.
Not exact matches
But Podesta and his
candidate want to force a
religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the
right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).
The
religious right experienced what CNN called a «nightmare scenario:» in three states voters approved same - sex marriage; anti-abortion
candidates were defeated in red states; and Obama, whose opponent had the support of Billy Graham, won a second term.
Dana Milbank takes the failure of any of the conservative evangelical
candidates as evidence of the diminishing clout of the once - formidable
Religious Right.
The Catholic Church was well within its
rights to conduct its campaign on
religious liberty, but its «Preserve Religious Freedom» yard signs were clearly designed to be placed alongside partisan candida
religious liberty, but its «Preserve
Religious Freedom» yard signs were clearly designed to be placed alongside partisan candida
Religious Freedom» yard signs were clearly designed to be placed alongside partisan
candidate signs.
This is why the
Religious Right has absolutely no
candidate for president.
Goldwater was not a perfect
candidate, or person, but there is no way that he would approved of all this
religious moralizing, and hard -
right government spending, esp.
Just as abortion, gay
rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy, illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the
candidate's
religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder of others, the subjugating of women, and the establishment of it's own set of laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would do so...).
Most voters rejected such efforts, and on the whole,
candidates closely tied to the
religious right did not fare well.
That's because issues like gay marriage and
religious liberty motivate voters in the
right and left base who might otherwise be lackadaisical or unmoved by their choice of
candidates.
Instead, the crisis comes from the fact that the old - guard
religious right political establishment normalized an awful
candidate — some offering outright support in theological terms, others hedging their bets and whispering advice behind closed doors.
Perhaps if the tea baggers and the
religious right (oxymoron) were not so fixated on which
candidate for secular office could «out Jesus» the other, you would have a point.
BY PAUL SCHINDLER Three gay and lesbian City Council
candidates ---- one incumbent and two newcomers ---- are facing organized opposition in the September 10 Democratic primary from a
religious right coalition that held rallies against marriage equality over a period of at least seven years.
But the
religious right wing of the party, as well as most of its presidential
candidates, have not.
He's the most ideologically - aligned with the Conservative Party of the three
candidates, but he comes from an evangelical /
religious right background that's not so common in New York politics.