The Republican Party was founded by abolitionists, many of whom were Christians who opposed slavery for moral reasons.
Abortion is a form of slavery since the mother is designated as the master over the child's life and death.
As the pro-life party the GOP has merely returned to its roos!
Yes, I have noticed how muted, say, Howard Dean and Teddy Kennedy are. I've wondered why they shut up and now I know.
No leading world power in modern memory has become a captive of the sort of biblical inerrancy that dismisses modern knowledge and science.
Aside from the ignorance reflected by this description of evangelicals (the vast majority of whom see science as a continuing revelation of the magnificence of God's creation and many of whom are engineers and scientists), what is remarkable about this statement is that it is almost ahistorical. Read almost anything written by important public figures in the 19th and early 20th century (the US was a world power then). The worldview was emphatically biblical.
Then, the notion that women should abort their children with the same seriousness as doing the laundry was unthinkable, the idea that divorce was something to encourage to help women's 'personal growth' and that homosexuals should be a privileged (and hugely public) political class were so far out that there is no record I am aware of that anyone advocated these ideas.
What is odd-man-out historically is present times and our enforced secularism the left brought into the public square since the socialist takeover in the 30's and 40's (together with the new left's goofy ideas about people of color, imperialism pc and so on). We live in a time in which the historically abnormal is regarded as the historic norm and in which decadence is celebrated as virtue.
The last parallel was in the early 17th century, when the papacy, with the agreement of inquisitional Spain, disciplined the astronomer Galileo for saying that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of our solar system.
Right. W has recently jailed hundreds of scientists for disagreeing with him.
Phillips has gone completely over to the dark side. His idea of a Republican majority was based on the party headed by Richard Nixon--who brought us the Endangered Species Act, wage and price controls, and the EPA--socialism lite.
Reagan changed all that and built a completely different majority based on a different coalition and it seems that Phillips has never forgiven him. Our current national party is trying to go back to the Nixon's Socialism Lite (and the Dems are pushing the hard stuff) but the base has changed. And Phillips naturally resents that pushback against the obviously great ideas embodied in Socialism Lite. And, horror of horrors, some of the pushback is based on religious principles.
The idea that W or most evangelical are looking to bring about Armageddon by the war in Iraq is so silly that it needs no refutation--it is just one of the left's talking points de jour, dutifully repeated by Mr. Phillips.
Really? That would be suprising to the original party of big government, the Whigs, that became the Republican party. Granted it was formed out of problems from the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act but it was not 'founded by abolitionists' as some hope of eliminating slavery. Abolitionists in the north amounted to less than 2% of the total population. lincoln's first inaugural address spoke specifically on the first 13th Amendment, an Amendment that would have kept slavery perpetually. Doesn't sound like a party 'founded by abolitionists' does it?
I have problems with those that would tie a political party to God Almighty. God is not a Republican or a Democrat, he is not an American, nor is He conservative or liberal. God is God.