Nonsense. The Tea Party is all about cutting taxes, spending, and government interference. There are no doubt some social conservatives in the groups, who correctly perceive that pushing the social conservative agenda does too much damage to the push for fiscal restraint.
Your joking right?
Do you really think people cannot be socially AND fiscally conservative?
I think most conservatives are.
Sorry for you and your accuracy, but yes, the largest group within the tea party is social conservatives, and the religious right. The tea party is more religion oriented than other voters.
“New Poll: Tea Party Overwhelmingly Christian And Socially Conservative. by JJ SUTHERLANd October 05, 2010
“A new poll is out today from the Public Religion Research Institute.
first, it’s an overwhelmingly Christian group. 81% identify as Christian, and nearly half (47%) say they are part of the religious right or conservative Christian movement.
Secondly, it isn’t libertarian, it’s much more socially conservative, with 63% saying abortion should be illegal and only 18% in favor of gay marriage.
Third, it is fundamentally a Republican movement. 76 percent identify or lean towards the Republican party.”
Pew Research—”The Tea Party and Religion”
Tea Party supporters also tend to take socially conservative positions on abortion and same-sex marriage. While registered voters as a whole are closely divided on same-sex marriage (42% in favor, 49% opposed), Tea Party supporters oppose it by more than 2-to-1 (64% opposed, 26% in favor). Similarly, almost six-in-ten (59%) of those who agree with the Tea Party say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, 17 percentage points higher than among all registered voters. Tea Party supporters closely resemble Republican voters as a whole on these issues.
Roughly half of Tea Party backers said their religious beliefs are the most important influence on their views of gay marriage (53%) and abortion (46%).
By contrast, 37% of registered voters overall cited their religious beliefs as the most important influence on their views of same-sex marriage and 28% cited religion as the primary influence on their views of abortion.