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What to Expect from the Christian Right in 2015
Robert F. Kennedy, Junior's Ring Of Fire ^ | December 26, 2014 | Guest Blogger

Posted on 12/26/2014 4:50:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The Christian Right continued to strengthen its grasp on the Republican party in 2014, as was evident in the mid-term election results across the country. And while we can all hope that 2015 will be different, it’s sadly highly unlikely.

Looking at the GOP candidates who might throw their hats into the 2016 presidential contest, it’s not hard to see the ties to the Religious Right.

“There’s former Gov. Mike Huckabee, of course,” wrote Ed Kilgore on Talking Points Memo, “a Southern Baptist minister whose 2008 campaign almost entirely relied on conservative evangelical voters … Rick Santorum, is a Catholic traditionalist who also appealed on moral and grounds to conservative evangelicals, and on occasion hinted that mainline Protestantism had been captured by Satan.”

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry has long enjoyed close relationships with crypto-dominionists and radical self-styled Christian Zionists,” continued Kilgore. “And fellow Texan Sen. Ted Cruz frequently deploys as his warm-up act his father Rafael Cruz, a fiery conservative evangelical minister who believes Christians must “take back society” from “the progressives” who are responsible for “the blood of 57 million babies…crying out to God, just like the blood of Abel cried out to God.”

Outside of Texas, which always seems to dominate the religious fervor come election time, there is a crop of conservative governors across the nation that look to push their religious beliefs on everyone. Louisiana’s Gov. Bobby Jindal wants creationism taught in schools. Wisconsin’s Scott Walker claims that he’s doing the Lord’s work by pushing his anti-union message. And Indiana’s Mike Pence has been “cozying up to David Lane, a Christian Right impresario who is especially active in organizing clerical audiences for would-be presidents in Iowa,” said Kilgore.

In the Senate, you have Florida’s Marco Rubio, who doesn’t believe in the Constitutionally-protected separation of Church and State. Kentucky’s Rand Paul has a “ longstanding connection to the openly theocratic U.S. Constitutional Party, and [is] especially close to Christian home-schoolers” wrote Kilgore. And “Ben Carson was recently the keynote speaker at a fundraising event for The Family Leader, Iowa’s premier Christian Right group; he’s notorious for embracing comparisons of America to Nazi Germany, a particularly strong habit among antichoice activists.”

And of course, who could forget current Republican presidential nominee front runner, Jeb Bush, who despite claims of being a moderate in the party, “touched off the Terri Schiavo hysteria in 2003 by intervening in a family’s end-of-life decisions.”

“So it’s pretty likely conservative Christian leaders will be making a less-than-joyful noise in the New Year,” concluded Kilgore, “lashing their troops into a frenzy of fear at the prospect of another liberal president and the hope of reshaping the country according to the Gospel of the Day Before Yesterday. Secular folk will shake their heads in disbelief, and progressive Christians will pray: ‘Lord Have Mercy.'”


TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; bush; santorum; tedcruz
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1 posted on 12/26/2014 4:50:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rats. They didn’t list my governor Brownbeck.


2 posted on 12/26/2014 4:55:31 PM PST by Mercat (Merry Christmas to all my freeper friends)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Kentucky’s Rand Paul has a “ longstanding connection to the openly theocratic U.S. Constitutional Party,

Good grief. My wife was formerly Secretary of the Ohio Constitution Party, and before that, active in the California branch of the Constitution Party. I know many of the officials of the Ohio CP. Nothing theocratic about it, or the CA CP. The writer is obviously paranoid, seeing theocracy where it doesn't exist.

3 posted on 12/26/2014 4:55:39 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Crypto-Dominionist sounds pretty cool, I should be one of those.


4 posted on 12/26/2014 4:56:33 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>> “Texas Gov. Rick Perry has long enjoyed close relationships with crypto-dominionists and radical self-styled Christian Zionists,”

He says that like it’s a bad thing.

I’m PROUD of being a radical Christian Zionist, self-styled or otherwise.

Not sure what crypto-dominionist means but I bet I R one of them, too. If Kilgore doesn’t like it, chances are, I’m all over it.


5 posted on 12/26/2014 4:59:16 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Constitutionally protected separation of church and state.

ORLY?

6 posted on 12/26/2014 4:59:19 PM PST by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dodododo dodododo


7 posted on 12/26/2014 5:00:26 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is nothing but total, abject spin.

None of the potential candidates mentioned are even remotely conservative, so the author starts off with a ridiculous straw man that they're somehow tied to the "far Christian right" simply to damn conservatism that much further.

But this is how the Left creates the narrative and controls the debate though.

8 posted on 12/26/2014 5:01:22 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (NO COMPROMISE! NO BIPARTISANSHIP! STOP OBAMA NOW!)
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>> Crypto-Dominionist sounds pretty cool, I should be one of those.

It turns out I am a “dominionist”... I pray for GOD’s kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth.

(Of course I’m in good Company with that particular prayer.)

Not sure what the “crypto-” part means. That I’m undercover? If so, my bad... I should be proudly and frequently proclaiming it! With GOD’s help I’ll work on that!


9 posted on 12/26/2014 5:04:22 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Ted Cruz isn’t conservative? Hahahahahahaha!


10 posted on 12/26/2014 5:04:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yup...it’s starting for 2016


11 posted on 12/26/2014 5:05:03 PM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: Nervous Tick

A “domminionist” is a Christian that believes Christ WILL NOT return until the entire world is evangelized to following Jesus.

A “crypto domminionist” is one that believes that, but will speak in “code”about that belief to other theocracy fans in the worthless flyover country of the Bible Belt. I guess if you live in Texas or Oklahoma, you will know the code when you hear it.

Apparently, there are a few Ivy league schools that hand out the secret decoder rings for all the stuff us knuckle draggers (must be from the extra chromosome) are supposed to believe in an upper-division Am Lit or Poly Sci class.


12 posted on 12/26/2014 5:29:32 PM PST by L,TOWM (Is it still too soon to start shooting?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I never knew Robert F. Kennedy, Junior was terrified of Christians.


13 posted on 12/26/2014 5:31:47 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: clearcarbon

He probably has never known any.


14 posted on 12/26/2014 5:49:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: clearcarbon
I never knew Robert F. Kennedy, Junior was terrified of Christians.

He is a Catholic, I doubt that he is terrified of all Christians.

15 posted on 12/26/2014 5:58:41 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12; clearcarbon
I'm pretty sure he's a Catholic in the same way that I'm a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.
16 posted on 12/26/2014 6:02:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What to Expect from the Christian Right in 2015

Howls of derisive laughter at the thought that there will be another direct descendant of Joseph P. Kennedy, Senior elected president in our lifetimes.

17 posted on 12/26/2014 6:05:56 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Suit up.

“”Mary Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Jr. and their kids settled in the New York suburb of Bedford in a large house surrounded by a forest, complete with their own pond, the Daily Beast wrote. A religious family, they attended Mass each Sunday.””


18 posted on 12/26/2014 6:11:55 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Mafia members go to Mass, too.


19 posted on 12/26/2014 6:13:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, I don’t know how you can know that he isn’t a Catholic, but he seems pretty typical for one, he is a liberal democrat.


20 posted on 12/26/2014 6:16:30 PM PST by ansel12
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