The guy is confused. The "religious right" is an epithet, and he's trying to force fit Christians into an epithet that they don't fit and never fit. And then complaining that they don't, evidently.
If you're a Christian, you're a Christian first. Since you've aligned yourself with some rather ancient principles, you will look very "conservative" to your enemies, but your ancient principles are very much alive in the here and now.
According to him, Christians should be welcome in either party, and in a world far superior to this one, they would be.
The primary difference between the two parties is quite simply that one believes in centralizing the institutions of power, and the other believes theoretically in de-centralizing the institutions of power, and that as much power as possible should remain with the citizen.
A christian might fall down on either side of that question, in most of the world the second political choice does not exist. The US is the one country in the world where the second theory has any traction at all. In the rest of the world there is no parallel to the GOP, it is a peculiarly American phenomenon.
What has changed is that the modern Democratic Party has adopted abortion as its primary litmus test, and its ranks have filled with anti-god marxists. Christians who might otherwise agree with them on centralized power find themselves forced out. Its not the GOP's fault that its becoming increasingly impossible to be a good believing Christian, and remain within the DNC.
His next mistake is in equating the loss by conservative GOP candidates with a "religious right" having supposedly lost its way, and as he says, becoming conservatives first and religious second. He misses the point. American conservatism is not mere traditionalism. It is always rooted in principle, in our case the founding principles of individual liberty, informed by judeochristian understanding of man's place in God's universe.
That we couldn't turn this election only shows that we have lost influence in the GOP itself, not that we have lost track of what guides and drives us. We know who we are. The GOP is in danger of losing track of who and what it is and must be.
Meanwhile, the DNC is doing everything it can to drive Christians to the margins.
If the deacon isn't comfortable working with Christians who are trying to save civilization, even Christians with whom he occasionally disagrees, this is something he is going to have to work out within himself. Its time for him to do a bit of soul-searching. When he sorts it out, we could use the help.
Or, if he finds that he really agrees more with centralized models of governance, then he could dedicate himself to winning the DNC back from the marxist death cult that has captured it. Good luck, and I sincerely mean that.
This is one of those principles that the liberals don't understand.