President Bush was magnanimous in victory Wednesday and promised truly to work at being a uniter. That was important. Other members of the GOP team are singing from an entirely different playbook, however. They expect to see a "revolution" in which they get to force through their conservative, religion-based social agenda. This election, they believe, was a mandate for that. Plainly put, that is nonsense.
The elements of their religious social agenda include: a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage; a Supreme Court that will reverse Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 ruling that prohibited government from interfering in a woman's right to end an early, unwanted pregnancy; a ban on RU-486, the "morning after" birth control bill; an even more stringent ban on stem-cell research and numerous other initiatives dear to the hearts of the religious right. ...
Looking ahead, Bush faces an enormous, uphill struggle to keep Iraq from turning into a disaster. Should he fail, and should the right insist on trying to force-feed America its radical social agenda, the 2006 midterm elections could bring real congressional grief to the Republicans. This is still a centrist, tolerant society, and any effort to remake it into a conservative theocracy will bring swift, decisive repudiation.
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