Buried in all the good news for young Americans, female Americans, Latino Americans, African Americans, and almost every sort of American except for old white male conservative Americans, comes the following article from the New York Times...
CHRISTIAN RIGHT FAILED TO SWAY VOTERS ON ISSUES
Christian conservatives, for more than two decades a pivotal force in American politics, are grappling with Election Day results that repudiated their influence and suggested that the cultural tide — especially on gay issues — has shifted against them.
More below the orange flourish.
It is not as though they did not put up a fight; they went all out as never before: The Rev. Billy Graham dropped any pretense of nonpartisanship and all but endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Roman Catholic bishops denounced President Obama’s policies as a threat to life, religious liberty and the traditional nuclear family. Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition distributed more voter guides in churches and contacted more homes by mail and phone than ever before.
“Millions of American evangelicals are absolutely shocked by not just the presidential election, but by the entire avalanche of results that came in,” R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Ky., said in an interview. “It’s not that our message — we think abortion is wrong, we think same-sex marriage is wrong — didn’t get out. It did get out.
“It’s that the entire moral landscape has changed,” he said. “An increasingly secularized America understands our positions, and has rejected them.
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And these are the same people who claimed they could never support a Mormon for President. That didn't last long, did it?
Perhaps the Right will finally realize it doesn't hold a monopoly on values. But I won't hold my breath.
And in a related data point, Congress is finally starting to reflect the religious diversity of the American people. Consider Tulsi Gabbard, a Hindu, newly elected to the House from Hawaii. Or Senator-elect Mazie Hirono, the former occupant of Gabbard's seat. Hirono is a Buddhist.
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