Thursday, March 21, 2013

Make Room for Bigots

The Religious Right is not happy with the GOP rebranding effort.

RIO RANCHO RIO GRANDE RON GARCIASome leaders of the religious right are openly worried this week after a sprawling 98-page report released by the Republican National Committee on how the party can rebuild after its 2012 implosion made no mention of the GOP’s historic alliance with grassroots Christian “value voters.”

Specifically, the word “Christian” does not appear once in the party’s 50,000-word blueprint for renewed electoral success. Nor does the word “church.” Abortion and marriage, the two issues that most animate social conservatives, are nowhere to be found. There is nothing about the need to protect religious liberty, or promote Judeo-Christian values in society. And the few fleeting suggestions that the party coordinate with “faith-based communities” — mostly in the context of minority outreach — receive roughly as much space as the need to become more “inclusive” of gays.

To many religious conservatives, the report was interpreted as a slight against their agenda and the hard work they have done for the party.

“The report didn’t mention religion much, if at all,” said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. “You cannot grow your party by distancing yourself from your base, and this report doesn’t reinforce the values that attracted me and many other people into the Republican Party in the first place. It just talks about reaching out to other groups.”

Is there no place left in America where these people can be secure in their reactionary anti-science, anti-woman bigotry?  How intolerant can the GOP be?

Not to worry, all you latter-day Torquemadas; the Republican Party knows that there are fat pigeons to be plucked with scary visions of gay weddings being held at the abortion clinics and jack-booted thugs confiscating guns at the FEMA camps.

2 barks and woofs on “Make Room for Bigots

  1. “The report didn’t mention religion much, if at all,” said Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association. “You cannot grow your party by distancing yourself from your base, and this report doesn’t reinforce the values that attracted me and many other people into the Republican Party in the first place. It just talks about reaching out to other groups.”

    So, to these volk, if “reaching out to other groups” (who aren’t currently in the GOTea fold) doesn’t include the gentle ministrations of the New Conquistadores – out to convert or kill the heathens – then there’s no value in it.

  2. To be honest, I can empathsize with their concerns. They are facing major changes and don’t have the knowledge/skills to cope. Their fear makes them lash out and hold on more tightly to their beliefs. When you have no control over change and disagree with it, it’s traumatic. Unfortunately, there’s no way to make unwanted change readily accepted.

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