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Article: The GOP's Evangelical Dilemma
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- The American Spectator
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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If the Republican Party is to remain competitive, its unhappy alliance with the Religious Right remains indispensable.
IN LECTURING AROUND THE COUNTRY over the past decade, I have been asked this question-usually by a well-dressed gentleman in his middle years-on innumerable occasions: "What are we going to do with the religious right?" This inquiry makes sense only when its implications are understood and it is translated into plain language: "We born-and-bred Republicans are not happy with these interlopers who will not be found in Episcopal and Congregationalist churches and could not conceivably gain admittance to a country club and, worse yet, are obsessed with prohibiting abortion and ...