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http://hamptonroads.com/2010/03/libe...e-evangelicals
Politico March 12, 2010 By Ben Smith The rise of a new conservative grass-roots fueled by a secular revulsion at government spending is stirring fears among leaders of the old conservative grass-roots, the evangelical Christian right. A reeling economy and the Obama administration’s massive bank bailout and stimulus plan were the triggers for a resurgence in support for the Republican Party and the rise of the tea party movement. But they’ve also banished the social issues that are the focus of many evangelical Christians to the background. And while health care legislation has brought social and economic conservatives together to fight government funding of abortion, some social conservative leaders have begun to express concern that tea party leaders don’t care about their issues, while others object to the personal vitriol against President Barack Obama, whose personal conduct many conservative Christians applaud. “There’s a libertarian streak in the tea party movement that concerns me as a cultural conservative,” said Bryan Fischer, director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association. “The tea party movement needs to insist that candidates believe in the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage.” “As far as I can tell [the tea party movement] has a politics that’s irreligious. I can’t see how some of my fellow conservatives identify with it,” said Richard Cizik, who broke with a major evangelical group over his support for government action on climate change, but who remains largely in line with the Christian right on social issues. “The younger Evangelicals who I interact with are largely turned off by the tea party movement — by the incivility, the name-calling, the pathos of politics.”
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Clearly, the Social Conservatives want the Tea party to stick with them!
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Dixie... "If it were up to me... If any abortion occurred for any reason, it would be a crime of murder, punishable by death, preferably stoning..." "The First Amendment doesn't even mention the government. It has absolutely nothing to do with what the government can or can't do...." __________ "What you won't hear from this...party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon." -Obama |
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Social conservatives would like everyone to stick with them.
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No, not the pro-choice or Mormon or jewish, or social liberals... or gays, or interracial, or freckled, or those with ginger hair..
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Dixie... "If it were up to me... If any abortion occurred for any reason, it would be a crime of murder, punishable by death, preferably stoning..." "The First Amendment doesn't even mention the government. It has absolutely nothing to do with what the government can or can't do...." __________ "What you won't hear from this...party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon." -Obama |
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I'd be worried if I was you also
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don't worry, we told moveon and the brady campaign to not bother joining us.
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As a social conservative and a TEA Party advocate, I ain't worried about libertarians. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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About the end to freedom and democracy that teabaggers threaten? Yes. The demagoguery? Yes. All teabaggers need to be rounded up and killed, for the good of America. The founders would have done it, it's a shame that America's modern liberals don't have the balls that our founding liberals did.
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The author of the article makes a good point about the increasing divide between the social conservatives and the more libertarian fiscal conservatives.
While the Obama administration provides a common enemy, their goals are vastly different. One wants individual liberties while the other wants gov't interference in ways of their own choosing. It could cost them elections in the future or it could see a fiscal conservative elected.
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One of the hopeful signs is that many of the fiscal conservatives are open to discussion.
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I think most of America would prefer it if they both went away.
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seriously, what is it that the Tea Party is saying that you hate so much.....
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