Republican Hand Wringing

I am delighted by how the authoritarian element of the electorate got so thoroughly trounced in this last election.  Until Republican's can learn to answer in the manner of Joe Biden in the Vice Presidential debate, that while holding strong religious beliefs that they are not willing to impose them on others, the GOP is doomed.  There may be hope of a turn on this point by the Evangelical Right's recognition that they failed, but not for lack of effort.

“Millions of American evangelicals are absolutely shocked by not just the presidential election, but by the entire avalanche of results that came in,” R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Ky., said in an interview. “It’s not that our message — we think abortion is wrong, we think same-sex marriage is wrong — didn’t get out. It did get out.

“It’s that the entire moral landscape has changed,” he said. “An increasingly secularized America understands our positions, and has rejected them.”

Christian Right Failed to Sway Voters on the issues

I disagree with the Reverend Mohler that it is the moral landscape that has changed.  I believe it is our core value separating Church and State that is rejecting religious positions that have no business being a part of government.  If this is the land whose first proclamation of independence includes the pursuit of happiness as a right, then how can we tolerate a religious movement that dictates what that happiness should be?  People voluntarily congregating into a community church is a expression of the pursuit of happiness for some and if it is a community of gay and lesbians, whose business is it but their own?