I understand, NorthMountain. You MUST follow your God. (I should say, "OF COURSE you must follow your God".
I'm not real sure what's hard about understanding that. It's not like it's an historical novelty. And, if someone really doesn't "get it", then have them peruse just for a moment the Christians in Iraq who so easily could mouth the words, "I reject Jesus and Mohammed is god's only prophet."
If they would simply say those words -- they don't even have to mean them -- they and their families could live.
But they CANNOT deny their God. I hope, NorthMountain, for the sake of America, that republicans come to understand this.
... republicans come to understand this.
"Republicans" are not monolithic. We have, for example, the likes of Karl Rove, Thad Cochran, and Mitch McConnell who have essentially declared war on conservatives. We have the likes of John Boehner, whose principles (if any) are well hidden. We have the likes of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who actually are conservative and constitutionalist.
And, we have many, many in the rank-and-file who are personally very conservative, very dedicated to the Constitution ... and who think that because the Republican Party platform more or less agrees with them, that the Republican Party leadership agrees with them as well. This is simply not the case.