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Klath
03-28-2006, 01:08 PM
There's nothing new here but it's a good sum-it-all-up story. It's going to be really interesting to see how this plays out in the next set of elections. I'd love to see a full on backlash against the fundie Republicans by the rest of the party. Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. :)

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Republicans Split Over Religion's Growing Role in Their Party (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a4l9Gd5tOPY8)

By Heidi Przybyla

March 28 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans, who have profited politically from emphasizing faith and family values, are now finding those same issues dividing the party.

Economic conservatives and secular Republicans complain their message is being drowned out by Christian conservatives preoccupied with banning abortion and gay marriage and limiting stem-cell research.

On the other side, ``values'' advocates say they have provided the party with crucial support, particularly in 2004, when they mobilized religious conservatives to go to the polls to help re-elect President George W. Bush.

Such concerns are turning long-simmering Republican tensions over the role of religious conservatives into an election-year split in a party already strained by differences on the Iraq war, immigration and government spending.

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Panamah
03-28-2006, 01:17 PM
You know, Democrats have the same exact split over the same thing. I think our religious democrats are definitely less powerful than your religious republicans though.

Almost seems like we need another party. One for either the secularists or the religiousists to go to.

Klath
03-28-2006, 01:31 PM
You know, Democrats have the same exact split over the same thing. I think our religious democrats are definitely less powerful than your religious republicans though.
The Republicans have the lion's share of the fundamentalists (if only we could get the lions to take them back...) and it's the fundamentalists who want to change the laws in order to inflict their beliefs on everyone.