What has the religious right gained from its alliance with the neo conservative Republicans?

Question

Most of the money Bush promised to faith based charities was not given out, constitutional amendment for gay marriage was never even started, still no action on prohibition of abortion, and numerous Republican politicians corrupt.

Answer 1

Its called a bait and switch routine, and conservative Christians, who make a large part of the Republican constituency, were conned by it hook line and sinker. They promise legislation that will make a woman’s ability to terminate her pregnancy more difficult, and yet they yield no results. They assure their Christian base that they will do everything in their power to thwart the legitimization of gay marriage, and yet you hardly see them working towards that end. They proclaim that they will divvy out money to faith-based charities and instead dispense it to secular private philanthropic organizations.

Many Republicans criticize the rampant mendacity of the Democratic politicians in their dealings with their voter base, and the promises they make, but seldom is it highlighted how prevalent Republican duplicity is in the overtures they make to their Christian constituency; a portion of the electorate that was instrumental in getting many of them elected in the first place.

I think it is fitting that the Republican’s oaths to its Christian conservative members are replete with half-truths and outright deception, because most politically conservative Christians are not really authentic about their professed faith to begin with. It serves them right to be lied to, when they hypocritically use a faith that is supposed to exemplify love, for means that do nothing more than promote their own prejudices and trivial wants.

Answer 2

You should ask the question the other way 'round. What has the Republican Party gained in it's alliance with the religious right? And the answer to that question is long and involved. Keep in mind that the Republican Party has always been driven by religious factions. It was created largely as a home for the abolition movement before the Civil War. And the abolition movement, the movement to free the slaves, was born in the churches. Fundamentalist Protestants believed that all humans were created in the image and likeness of God. We`are all equal. Therefore, it is a crime against God and nature for one man to make a slave of another. Lincoln was not a particularly religious man, but the religious right of his day supported his efforts. The religious Right has always served as the backbone of the Republican Party. Rush Limbaugh states plainly that he is a religious conservative. But there is a lot of tension in any political party and no one faction gets everything it wants. Abolitionists were pounding on Lincoln, asking when he was going to issue formal decree freeing the slaves. But he had to wait until it was politically safe to do so. Something they did not understand. He issued the Emancipation Proclaimation only after the North won a significant battle and the tide had turned in favor of the Union. Bottom line, the religious conservatives have to work and march and vote and contribute in numbers larger than the opposition. And be a little patient. Good things will happen.

Answer 3

There never was an alliance, just both have morals so they are a good pair. I am a Conservative & a Christian - you can make up any name for me, but my beliefs will not change.
Abortion laws upheld & state regulated, no same sex marriage laws passed & vote in VA next month with 53% support according to Washington Post, right to educate child at home.
Democrats & Republicans alike can be corrupt, the only difference I can see is Democrats have bigger mouths in media - the scriptures called that Pharisees in tall buildings.

The last time President Bush had any problem with drinking arrest was 1972 - drugs have been bantered about by the fringe who knew him growing up - what did people think of you in college? There has been no evidence since he met Laura Bush of anything but a churching going, non drinker. No one has any proof different - so stop slandering our President. Get a Life!

Answer 4

Ok, let's all put our pencils down and our books up children because we are going to go over this just one more time for those that are not able to keep up....

We have a President and a Congress. A President campaigns on what they will do and the Congress in turn campaigns on what they will do. If the President and the Congress do not agree on when, how, where, or if these things should be done then THEY DO NOT GET DONE.

Ok, now class we will look at this in detail within the context of this students question:
Faith Based Charities - Congressional Democrats refused to allow a majority of funds to be dispersed. They threw up their little hands chanting "separation of church and state."
Constitutional Amendment against Gay marriage - If you actually knew what you were talking about you would remember that it was the Congressional Republicans who wanted this initiative and Bush actually wanted to the individual states the right to decide for themselves.

Ok, pay attention now we are almost finished:

Prohibition of abortion: Again this question is silly because abortion is a hot button issue that will not be decided in Congress but in huge mounds of legislation from both states and Congress that will be challenged by both sides for years to come in the Supreme Court. No politician in Congress would dare to write anything abortion related at this moment for fear of losing their job.

Finally, to the last and I might add least point made by this student:
For every dirty politician on one side there can be named another that is just as dirty if not more dirty on the other side. Our political process has become one where both parties are willing to create, expose, frame, cover-up, and do whatever it takes to win. This might be admirable if the political parties actually did anything in Congress but they do not. NEITHER PARTY HAS DONE ANYTHING THAT THEY SAID THEY WOULD.

No, this is all for a job, a very elite and aristocratic job where the rules of everyday citizens do not apply to you. A job that was designed to not be wanted, to not be lucrative but somehow has become the best way to become rich from interested parties and special interest. You and I play a role in this game though, our role is to provide cash to the system. Our role is to be lead like lambs or slaves and do what we are told. Our role is one of obedient child to overbearing parent, do not speak unless you are spoken to and do not question my ways.

Republicans have rejected this notion and are even more mobilized that even the Democrats dare to imagine. We will not sit idly by and let this happen and will speak and will not let manners or etiquette be forsaken in order to do so.

Answer 5

what the rapture righties want is total dominion so they can turn this country into a theocracy where our personal liberties are subject to biblical interpretation. I thank God every day that even the war-monger neo-cons won't bend to the paranoid tyrany of the evangelicals. How long do you think the first amendment and the bill of right would last under a evangelical theocracy?? Not long. Not long at all.

Answer 6

i think of they are the two caught of their ideology and function a matching "stubborness" whilst it includes their worldview. there replaced right into a learn released a little while in the past that of the persons who had chosen to pass "television loose", a majority have been the two non secular neo-cons or non secular liberals. They the two mistrusted the medium as being a gadget of the different area. the international is many times as you view it.

Answer 7

They have gained nothing but press, and the last year or so it has been bad press. Bush knew full well that amendment would never pass, for instance. He and his administration used the Evangelicals shamelessly. How do I say this without sounding patronizing? Hmmmm....They've gotten what they deserve IMO.

It's hard for me to care that they were used because I am against everything the RR stands for - not what they SAY they stand for, but for what the reality of it means. To my mind they wish nothing more than for this country to become a Christian theocracy. They wish to impose their "moral" standards on all of us, never mind the hypocrisy and bigotry involved there, they manage to support it all with scripture - as though the Bible is the Constitution. They did that during desegregation and over interracial marriage as well.

I cannot be sorry for them, but at the same time it just added to my growing contempt for Bush and his cronies.

Answer 8

With Democrats filibustering everything, it's a wonder they get anything done at all...

Faith based charities was a good idea, unless you're atheist or agnostic...although they would still be available to you.

A constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage wasn't a good idea, but President Bush's admission he would not be opposed to "Civil Unions" was but was largely ignored for political perception that he was anti-homosexual. Personally, I felt they shouldve taken the opportunity- marriage is a religious institution recognized by the government, so why "Gay Rights" activists fought so hard over semantics is absurd- didnt fight that hard over "Don't ask, don't tell"

Abortion shouldnt be allowed unless medically necessary. Pro-Choice would have you believe otherwise, but the choice to have sex is the opportunity to say "no", not afterwards. You dont get to eat at a restaurant, decide it wasnt what you wanted and get your money back. Pregnancy is the result of a choice, not the beginning of one.

You call Republicans corrupt as though each and every one of them is corrupt. Your politics are bigoted- the same guilt by association some racists use, of which you appear guilty. Way to go.

Answer 9

The religious "right" should gain nothing from its alliance with the neo-cons. What happened to separation of church and state? That is in the constitution. It shouldn't even be an issue. After all, isn't bribery illegal also?

Answer 10

Only the very rich and warmongers were ever going to 'benefit' from a relationship with the very rich and warmongers. Nobody these days wants to label themselves as working class or poor. Religions have heirarchies. The flock go to church on Sunday to be told what to think. The Neo-cons hijacked this heirarchy... voila!!, lower working class people voting themselves out of power.