A quick Google search of “GOP losing Conservative Christians” reveals countless (Well, Google does count them) entries of Conservative Christians bitterly criticizing the Republican Party. Here’s one typical sample and here’s another.
I was prompted to look because I couldn’t find a link to the NY Times story reprinted in today’s DNT. Titled, “Poll: GOP losing support of Conservative Christians”, it outlines the many grievances of said religious conservatives against the GOP.
The morass in Iraq can’t be helping and Katrina was a terrible blow but Conservative Christians aren’t harping on these. No, its the failure of the GOP to deliver on the hard rights most cherished desires fighting stem cell research and banning gay marriage. Yesterday’s ruling that the morning-after pill will become available is just one more slap in the face of religious conservatives and the Bush Administration wouldn’t stop it. Folks like Dobson who do not wish to destroy their credentials as righteous leaders are now retreating from the party that won’t use its 51% control of America to institute a 100% ultra-religious agenda.
The poll revealed that American’s who feel that the Republican Party is friendly toward religion dropped by 8%. The drop among Catholics and White evengelicals is 14% from a year ago.
Democrats can’t take much comfort in this because only 26% of the public regards Dems as friendly toward religion. It was 29% last year.
