While I don’t agree with your sentiment, I know you have a kernel of truth in your comment. When Bush ran, our church was fired up. For Romney - I know in my church we had very tepid support. He was merely the best of two evils. As i phone banked for him, I heard from plenty of baptists who hated obama, but felt morally unable to vote for a cultist. I tried to encourage them to vote - but I know in my heart I too felt regret that we couldn’t get a christian to be the nominee.
The time for these battles in in the primaries. The trouble, IMHO, with ‘values’ voters is that they let the perfect be the enemy of the good. This wasn’t a choice of the lesser of two evils. This was a choice between someone who would at least nod to the religious values of Christians vs. someone who will now now strive mightily to erase their influence from the public square, permanently and completely.
Romney wouldn’t do anything to hurt Christians. He likely would have been good for faith-based initiatives overall or at least neutral.
Obama now believes he has a mandate to ramp up the program he has had in mind all along.
We have effectuated the culture of depravity. For one example, think of the trajectory of homosexuality in your public schools. First, children were encouraged, then required, to be tolerant. Then they were encouraged,and then required to accept it. Then they were encouraged and are now required to celebrate it. They are now required to learn the mechanics of it and very soon will be required to practice it. The Folsom Street Fair is coming to just about every campus near you. Already on just about every college campus, it will work its way down the grade levels.
We have effectuated the culture of death. Abortion, no matter what the stage of gestation. Infanticide required for any who survive the procedure, who are fail to meet some eugenic standard upon birth or simply whose existence is inconvenient. Same for the other end of the age spectrum. Euthanasia for those whose care is expected to be too expensive according to some government panel or policy or who have otherwise become inconvenient.
Think Mormonism is a cult? How about the cult of government? We have swapped the culture of faith, of charity, of self-reliance, of family for the faith of government. We opt for the smothering embrace of omnipotent Leviathan. Doubt me? Look upon the rapturous faces of the Obama voters as they gaze upon their Messiah.
This was perhaps the last hope and chance to turn away from a very dark path. We have now entered upon it and it will accelerate to trans-Mach speed. Mark my words, your children are even now being taught by government actors to hate God, to to reject faith and to distrust you for attempting to instill it in them.
True religion will be co-opted or driven underground. What will remain is a rump of state-approved churches and persecuted minorities like the current situation in Red China. Welcome to the Falun Gong.
Take heart though, that situation won’t last forever. Soon, perhaps very soon, the uncontrolled welfare state will collapse under its own weight like a 700 pound bariatric basket case and fall under the only philosophy that seems to be gaining traction, expanding and uniting people across racial, linguist, economic and international boundaries - Islamism.
I hear tell in some of the more moderate Islamic countries, you can still be a Christian and live, for a while, so long as you don’t own property, and are willing to pay the Jizya.
But hey, we can’t support a Mormon, ‘cause they’re a cult.