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2016 Postmortem

SpartanDem

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7. The religious right goes where they're told

Reply to Doctor_J (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:29 PM

Mar 2013

If Huckabee, Reed and Perkins get these evangelical pastors their congregations will follow. It's not like the Catholic Church where the Pope or local priest says one thing and people yawn 'whatever'. It's much authoritarian in these evangelical/fundy churches, if the pastor says that the GOP is now just as godless as the Democrats they'll leave.

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Repukes have now embraced gay rights. Now what? [View all] Doctor_J Mar 2013 OP

I can't exactly believe that they have embraced gay rights. They might make a good show of it in Arkansas Granny Mar 2013 #1

Then we push on to single payer health care and a new Glass/Stiegel Paulie Mar 2013 #2

Watch a conservative 3rd party form tabbycat31 Mar 2013 #3

Won't happen Doctor_J Mar 2013 #4

Huckabee threatened to take them with him tabbycat31 Mar 2013 #5

The religious right goes where they're told SpartanDem Mar 2013 #7

Do you actually believe that a majority of elected Republicans... BlueDemKev Mar 2013 #6