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Originally Posted by Brujah
Romney would have a better chance if these dumbass religious republicans would stop trying to capture some spotlight with their stupid comments about rape, and babies, and God, etc.. WTF is going on in the Republican party? They should get rid of these idiots. You know who they are, there are just so many of them anymore, it's insane.
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Say thanks to Paul Weyrich, he was the guy that got the ball running with politicizing the Religious Right through the evangelicals. He pretty much started that whole movement and made it a political force. He was actually the guy that coined the term "Moral Majority".
It was later Karl Rove that set that tone about with the RR as they have become more of a hate movement IMO in which the Religious Reich (as I like to call them) has become.
The funny thing is even Weyrich thought the Religious Reich had lost it's way when they supported things like the Iraq invasion and the trashing of the environment via the Bush admin. In fact he felt it was going to be the undoing of their political movement and render them less effective in time.
Kind of an interesting article on the subject from back in 2008 from a Religious news site, none the less.
http://www.religiondispatches.org/ar...ht,_a_e ulogy
BTW on that site's front page is another interesting article on the topic of the Rape is god's will guy..
http://www.religiondispatches.org/ar...mnipotent_god/
A nice quote from that article is
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Every time a politician invokes a religious justification for a policy position,? Posner writes, ?he or she should be compelled to articulate a non-religious one.? Can you imagine how quickly arguments against gay marriage would collapse if people had to appeal to something other than biblical literalism (which is already a flimsy argument) to support their position? What on earth would they say?"
Seems at least a few of them still have a bit of common sense too bad it's not very wide spread.