If we did, there's be a lot of broken necks of a lot of people.
People are bashing conservative Christians right here on Free Republic — one of the better conservative Republican websites out there — and the stuff said about conservative Christians in RINO circles is much worse.
Personally, I don't want to see broken necks of non-Christians. Our country has a written Constitution that gives explicit guarantees to people who hold religious beliefs different from the majority. Those guarantees were originally given with Quakers, Roman Catholics and Jews in mind. Today, we as evangelical Christians are being forced to claim those protections against liberal rulers.
I don't have to like the views of my non-Christian colleagues, and I want to see them converted, but men like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson gave them the right to call themselves patriotic Americans under the terms of our Constitution.
140 posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 10:13:32 AM by MrEdd: “Social conservatives are not going to compromise this time around. If you personally are okay with the left getting its way on those issues, I personally am okay with the left getting its way with your wealth, your parents wealth, my wealth, and everyone else’s. As Howlin said, the Christians have oir boot on the neck of the party. we get a social.conservative, or everyone gets the Democrat. There is no compromise here, and that is why Santorum is surging.”
Bottom line, Santorum is most credible on religious liberty, and Romney may be as bad as Obama on that score.
For the Republican party to get the evangelical vote at all (instead of a third party upstart) then a strong social conservative is required.
if it bothers you personally that I throw the rhetoric used by the nonreligious here right back at them...too bad.