you just wake up looking for a fight, don’t you……..yes, you are right, the TP is more Christian than the GOP as a whole, and the GOP is more Christian than the GOP is as a whole. Point taken, and I skipped a step in my earlier post.
And yes, I agree, instinctively there is an Evangelical element that is large in the TP - because those do tend to be the people most concerned with limited governance. This only makes sense and I agree with you on that:
But there are two major exceptions to this notion. A: there is also an undeniable strain of non social libertines in the tea party universe….and they were some of the eary ones to it. The Santelli rant, which undeniably really is the spark (that lit what was already a big stack of kindling) has nothing to do with social issues or Christian beliefs.
And B: there are many Evangelicals who decry much of the TP platform as putting “mammon ahead of God - and they will blindly follow Huckabee and others down a very NON TP road.
So you are generally right, but you have to admit my two exceptions are valid.
Good God, how did you manage to find a reason to launch into a personal attack over this?
I said the tea party is more Christian than the GOP, the GOP is more Christian than the average population.
The majority of the tea party is Evangelical, and of course the tea party was made up of our most conservative Americans, the Christians.
I merely pointed out who the tea party is, social conservative Christians mostly, in fact mostly Evangelical Christians, that is why they are to the right of republicans on social issues.
I felt that was needed because of the spin you were posting trying to create a false impression of who tea partiers are.
FR is a social conservative site / I detect NO support for the Huckster