What you're seeing is the rift between the Religious and non-Religious Right. The press likes to pretend there is no Right other than the Religious kind, but issues like this illustrate that there are multiple camps under the GOP banner.
Yeah - there are Log Cabin Republicans too. If David Westerfield voted GOP, so what? While we appreciate their votes, doesn't mean they are moral in the rest of their lives.
"What you're seeing is the rift between the Religious and non-Religious Right."
That oversimplifies it, as there are people in the right who are religious, but who don't believe that the government ought to be interfering in certain matters, this is the camp that I fall in
The old definition of conservative is someone who believes in as little government interference in anything as is possible.
You know, during the 1920s, in Alabama no less, the people who were on the "conservative" side of politics, were the wets, the businessmen, basically, what Graves ended up calling the "Big Mules", people who believed in the old Bourbon idea that no government was good government
The left in this state consisted of the League of Women Voters, Organized Labor, Evangelical Protestants, and the Ku Klux Klan (I'll explain that one later)
The thing that has changed in this state since the 20s is that we now have two parties, and, we now also have big government wings in both parties
Not really...I see it more as the married with children and the married/unmarried without children.