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Election results raise questions about Christian right's influenceBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor Washington (CNN) - For many conservative Christian leaders, it was a nightmare scenario: Barack Obama decisively re-elected. Same-sex marriage adopted by voters in some states. Rigorously anti-abortion candidates defeated in conservative red states. On multiple levels, Tuesday’s election results raised questions about the Christian right’s agenda on American politics, eight years after the movement helped sweep President George W. Bush into a second term and opened the era of state bans on same-sex marriage. “For the first time tonight, same-sex marriage has been passed by popular vote in Maine and Maryland,” said Robert P. Jones, a Washington-based pollster who specializes in questions about politics and religion. “The historic nature of these results are hard to overstate,” Jones said. “Given the strong support of younger Americans for same-sex marriage, it is unlikely this issue will reappear as a major national wedge issue.” Your Take: Should churches be polling places? Some conservative evangelical leaders echoed that line. Albert Mohler, who heads the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said on Twitter that votes for same-sex marriage suggested that “we are witnessing a fundamental moral realignment of the country.” A Tuesday ballot measure to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington state is still pending. In Minnesota, voters rejected a Tuesday measure that would have banned same-sex marriage there. Thirty-eight states have banned same-sex marriage, mostly via constitutional amendments. Obama’s victory also raised questions about the Christian right's influence in the electorate. Though evangelical leaders as diverse as the Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land and Christian icon Billy Graham voiced support for Mitt Romney (Graham stopped short of an official endorsement), Obama performed better among white evangelicals than he did in 2008 in some states. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter In swing state Ohio, exit polls showed that Obama got 30% support among white evangelicals. While that’s hardly a victory, it’s better than the 27% support Obama got among those voters four years ago. Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same-sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney’s past social liberalism and his Mormon faith. “There is no evidence in voting patterns that President Obama's 'evolution' on same-sex marriage cost him anything,” Mohler said in another tweet Tuesday night. Obama also narrowly won Catholics, even after the U.S. Catholic bishops waged a rigorous campaign against the Obama administration around the issue of religious liberty. The bishops alleged Obama was forcing Catholics to violate their own teachings by making health insurance companies provide free contraception coverage for virtually all employees. CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories John Green, a religion and politics expert at the University of Akron, said Obama’s win among Catholics was partly a testament to the growing Latino demographic. “Maybe Hispanic Catholics were not as moved by religious liberty-type arguments as by immigration and economics,” he said. Unlike in 2004, when John Kerry - a former altar boy - lost Catholic voters, the Obama campaign had a robust religious outreach program aimed largely at Catholic and evangelical voters. The effort included videos from Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, a Catholic, talking about their Christian faith. Obama's success among some religious demographics also illustrated how economic issues, as opposed to culture war concerns, dominated the election cycle. The defeat Tuesday of two Republican Senate candidates who made national headlines with anti-abortion remarks also raised questions about the Christian right’s power. In Missouri, U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin, who in August walked back his remark that "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," lost his bid to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat. Akin’s campaign became a national cause for conservative Christian activists after the Republican Party abandoned the candidate and encouraged him to drop out over his abortion remark. In Indiana, Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock lost his race against Democrat Joe Donnelly after saying last month that pregnancies resulting from rape are “something that God intended to happen.” Conservative Christians did claim some victories Tuesday night, including helping the GOP retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and helping elect tea party favorite Ted Cruz as a U.S. senator from Texas. Ralph Reed, the leader of conservative group the Faith & Freedom Coalition, planned a Wednesday morning press conference to release his data about what he called the enduring influence of “values voters.” “Preliminary evidence is they turned out and they voted heavily for Romney,” Reed said in an e-mail message Tuesday night. soundoff (4,434 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Next »
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It probably won't work, but it's worth a try.
Atheist hunter....you actually do need science or you wouldn't be able to respond to this message. Whether you like it or not you no longer live in the dark ages
Unfortunately, the Christian Right will quickly convince themselves that they lost because their candidates were not extreme ENOUGH. They are absolutely certain that the "silent majority" of Americans are just like them, and that a punitive and judgemental God is on their side and against "the liberals," and no electoral defeat or anything else will ever convince them otherwise.
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....TO NSAIDI:
.............1 – the gop must devolve and halt their purpose as A ROADBLOCK to PROGRESS, MOVING FORWARD....
.............2 – the republicans must act to diminish the power of the tea party (more than 80% OF AMERICANS FEEL THAT THE tea party IS DESTRUCTIVE and UN-COMPROMISING due to their innate HATRED OF THE PRESIDENT...
.............3 – sit down AND COMPROMISE ON TAXES FOR THE RICH and SPENDING CUTS THAT ARE NOT MEAN and MEAN-SPIRITED...
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..........................let us join and make AMERICA the BEST COUNTRY for all of the RIGHT REASONS....
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The Christian fundies have been losing ground for years and have been in abject denial about it. This election is the wake-up call they need to understand that they are now no longer in control. And that is a good thing, IMO.
You are a bunny?
My grapes sure are sour today.
Mine too.
My grapes are just festering with sourness. They must be atheist grapes. I balme atheists for everything bad.
Damn we got our asses kicked yesterday!
Please don't confuse Mormons with Christians. Mormonism IS NOT Christian, although they want everybody else to believe that it is. Joe Smith invented this false religion to hide and then to justify is adultery by introducing polygamy. He was also involved in occult activities in order to make money, lots and lots of money, and then realized he could get lots more from gullible believers who buy into his brand of religion. Did some bigwig in mormonism have a "revelation" and "prophesied" that Romney would win? I guess their mormon god was wrong... again. Wonder what explanation they come up with this time. Mormon bishops swear an oath of vengeance against the United States for the death of Joseph Smith, and since Romney is a bishop, did he also swear this oath? Mormons are NOT Christians, they are a cult, get that straight!
I am christian and i don't understand this crap... IF u don't support abortion don't do it, but why should you prevent other people from it (is it better for them to pay a thousand dollar to an unlicensed doctor for abortion and die? , or abuse the child, and have the child suffer later on) and furthermore, scientifically abortion is nothing more then killing a cell. I don't support Gay marriage or am I against it, its not affecting me or others freedom, so why should you make it illegal?.... and what is this hypocrisy?being christian and all, yet still support Capital Punishment? .....No wonder Republicans are considered uneducated morons. {{{On top for all the woman that vote republican, please don't give that excuse of christian believes (a woman in NY said that on TV), when your on camera just say that your DUMB!,( Just go back to the kitchen and live your life like how woman are meant to be, housewives that take care of the children, Your limited to being a nurse, teacher or a secretary. Live your dream life as a republican woman(u can't let democrat defile the ideals set for woman, as well as defiling marriage...)}}}}
It's the difference between having a "Personal Relationship" with Christ and wanting to force a theocracy upon everyone. They should try imagining how they would enjoy living in Iran.
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Quit being an a$$
Hi 666-bot.
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Yea Obama won! He's a smooth operator boy.
The Republican party's embrace of the religious right has pushed me completely away and into the Democratic camp. Many moderate Republicans refuse to vote for these religious ideologues. As long as the Republicans continue to vote as a block while bowing down to the far right they will not get one more vote from me beyond the county level.
Totally agree – I'd vote Republican on economic issues, but I can't stomach the intolerance of the religious right and the anti-women policies they embrace.
The "Christian Right" has NEVER been either "Christian" or "Right". Time this farce rested in peace. Quietly. Alone.
I sure hope that the Christian influence and all the false worshiping of a sensationalized book that is re-written every twenty minutes has passed. I believe in Jesus, but I think the dude would be greatly offended to see himself nailed up and worn as jewelry around so many people's necks. I am not a monotheist and I have no one to blame or account to for anything other than myself and I feel fine. If that is offensive to others they can change the channel or swim to Israel where oppression of the native locals is a sport... sort of like we did to the American natives. It is embarrassing to be juxtaposed with the oddities of human self-awareness and hubris mentality when they genuflect to appease something that does not exist. I may be alone with my thoughts but I feel much more comfortable than to be among high level primates singing together in a building that exists for no other reason than to take money from the weak and frightened so as to advance the wealth of a few, or one. Darwin was so right, almost. Where is that asteroid we have been expecting?
Obviously you have never read the Bible.
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...The Christian Right should consider several points after President Obama's RE-ELECTION VICTORY: look at the Affordable Health Care Act and be pleased with the benefits for their congregation members as well as for ALL AMERICANS.
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..and they should look at what a decent man and his family there is in the WHITE HOUSE – PRESIDENT OBAMA and HIS FAMILY lock in on what the evangelicals call FAMILY VALUES......NOW, FIRST FAMILY VALUES !
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...and finally, young men and women are BEING BROUGHT HOME from the terrible COMBAT in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN..
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...DUBYA and the tea party got THE MAN IN THE HOLE.....
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....the PRESIDENT as COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF orchestrated and ordered the destruction of BIN LADEN and GHADDAFI !!
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.......................WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT...................VERY WELL DONE...
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State run organize religion has finally died and it’s about time. The time for religious fundamentalist fear-based preaching is over and they need to realize that the world has grown up and no longer needs fear from the unknown in the form of a deity. I do not wish to see religion banned, to some it offer them hope from their fears and in a way gives them a sense of purpose. But gone are the days when men (and women) were condemned to death for what I just wrote. For those who fail to see (or will not see), we do live forever, all you need to do is see the future of mankind in the eyes of a child. Must we be so vain or fearful of our own death, it is natural as life itself. Be content with your life, grow old, enjoy those you touch around you.
Stephen F Roberts: “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
The Christian Right will continue to influence many Americans, for good or ill. But that influence is clearly diminished and that can only be good for our country.
amen.
Christians avoided the polls in large numbers for two reasons, a cultist candidate from an anti – Christ faith and a known supporter of infanticide and abomination. There simply was no Christian choice. Also poor leadership is Gods curse on a nation.
@truth unknown: so you're saying catholics, protestants and jewish people didn't vote? then i guess america is majority atheist by the numbers of people that did vote. 🙂 thank you for that lovely acknowledgement.
what happen to your god TBT? did it change it's mind and ignore all your prayers? maybe it just did what it was going to do all along. let a decent man run the most powerful nation on earth.
fracking religious nut case. lmfao
That is not what was said at all wus.The numbers were not that far separated in the popular vote totals. No mandate at all just a throwing of America into a harsh judgment, four more years of incompetence at best.
Well, besides the fact that there were more than two candidates to choose from, maybe you should reexamine your interpretations. Your "Christian Choice" should have included judge not lest ye be judged....
Romney got far far more prayer than Obama. Romney lost. Prayer DID NOT WORK!
A Republican majority in the Senate got far far more prayers than a Democratic majority. The REpublicans lost even worse than expected. Prayer DID NOT WORK!
Christians prayed heavily that gay marriage initiatives wold not pass. The passed in tow states. Prayer DID NOT WORK!
Recreational marijuana passes in two states. Prayer DID NOT WORK.
@th...
nope
nope is a dope
Poor leadership is Gods curse on a nation. Prayer is to no avail when the decision of judgment has been issued. America is to continue to pay for its sins with another four years of incompetence.
Nope
Don't you mean "No, NO, NO!!!"?
snopes is wrong
@ke...
nope
MEANS
nope
I'm a Christian and I prayed REALLY hard for Obama, gay marriage and legalization of marijuana. Obviously God paid more attention to me than the faux-Christians of the Religious Right.
Ralph Reed's talk of the "enduring influence" of values voters is like someone trying to sell you a car he is pushing down the road. He is an amoral huckster who has managed to fool a lot of people. He has not, however, fooled the Creator.
Hi there, my name is Nicole Saidi and I work at CNN. It's the morning after the election and we want to try something new and ask some questions right here in the comments area, because we're interested putting something together about what people think.
Drum roll please ... our question for you here is, “What are the top 3 things
the GOP should do now?”
If you’d like to join in, please answer this way in the thread here and tag me in your response.
The top 3 things the GOP should do right now are:
___________
___________
___________
Thank you, and happy commenting!
1) Get a clue.
2) Get some compassion.
3) Get over itself.
Support Gay Marriage
Fix immigration
Support Health Care Reform.
1) disown the tea party
2) disown the religious right
3) field a candidate who isn't a robot
Hey Nicole,
The top three things the GOP should do now are
1) Abandon the Norquist Pledge
2) State a commitment to work towards bi-partisan debt reduction, which will include a mix of taxes and spending cuts
3) Realize the populace is evolving away from religion-based politics and that it is time to formulate policy under a much bigger tent
@nsaidi
1)Work *with* the President, instead of blocking him. Work *with* him to help move our country past the fiscal cliff, and the debt.
2)Take charge of the 'extremists' on the right, i.e. 'social conservatives' that have basically hijacked the republican/GOP party. Stop making 'gay marriage' and 'abortion' the top issues that they are running candidates and voting on.
3)Look at the voting demographics, and realize to be relevant in any future elections, and helpful to our nation, they will have to join with us in the 21st century and understand the that we are culture. They lost the latino vote and other minority vote big time. Stop being the party of only 'rich whites' and the 'party of no.'
Peace...
1. Work toward a budget resolution with democrats.
2. Work toward sensible immigration reform.
3. Elect leadership within in the party that is more reflective of the country as a whole.
1. Focus on taking over Congress and the Senate, that is where the real power is anyway. 2. Spend the next four years looking for someone who has an actual plan for America and ensure they know how to articulate it. 3. Education is the key to a more successful and informed America.
@nsaidi
1. Immediately reach out to the President to avert the fiscal cliff. Be willing to compromise, and by compromise I don't mean "surrender everything you hold dear" but I also don't mean "demand everything be exactly as you want it or you're refusing to play ball."
2. Do the same thing with immigration reform. The latino vote is going to be absolutely critical in every future election, and they are not incapable of being won over with the right message and more importantly right actions. There is already roughly 25% of that population that voted conservative. That is something that can be built upon. If the GOP refuses to budge on immigration reform they will risk turning the latinos into as reliably Democratic voters as the black community tends to be, and that will effectively kill the GOP in the long run.
3. Unsaddle yourselves from the religious right. The GOP was soundly defeated on social issues last night, and the majority of the younger generation simply does not hold anti-gay and anti-abortion views to the extent you profess. Clinging to this platform makes it very easy to project the GOP as being the "hateful" party attempting to deny people their rights, and that's not a winning position. Yes, you might lose the vote of the religious right if you take this route...but latinos and the younger generation are unquestionably the critical future voting bodies that must be targeted, and you can't do that by doing what you've been doing.
1: The rabid and frenetic right wingers in the Tea Party have all but destroyed the GOP's credibility. Publicly distance the mainstream Rupublican image from them immediately and start projecting an image of benign conservatism instead of the recent in-your-face, judgmental conservatism.
2: Realize that conservative doesn't exclusively mean Christian. People of other (or no) faiths have been denounced by the loudest voices in the GOP for too long. This has alienated large numbers of former Republicans.
3: Most people have opinions on issues that include both the left and right. The GOP needs to adopt a more centrist approach where accepting one promoted principle doesn't mean you automatically accept and are lumped in to the entire platform.
1) Lose their ties to the Christian right
2) Stop being mule-headed obstructionists in Congress and get something done! They behave like my children do when told we are going to a restaurant they don't care for: "But I don't LIKE that!" "OK, where would you like to go then?" "I don't know..."
3) Figure out how to get Hispanics to vote for them – Bush did fine, but they've hemorrhaged in that demographic ever since.
1) Block everything from the left for 4 years
2) Prevent liberals from doing any more damage to this country
3) Get ready for the next election in 4 years
1. Realize that they have a responsibility – to help govern.
This means stop being the party of "no".
Stop the filibusters.
Renounce the Norquist Pledge.
Replace Boehner and McConnell with people who will do the job the GOP congressional representatives were elected to do – govern, for the people, *not* the party.
2. Listen to the analysts who have told them that they can't be the party of older white men and win general elections.
Let go of their fixation with opposing marriage equality, reproductive choice and hardworking immigrants. These issues have nothing to do with political conservatism.
3. Solve their identîty crisis and get back to core values of conservatism.
The GOP cannot be all things to such constîtuents as:
– traditional Goldwater Conservatives
– neocons
– The American Taliban (which you may know as the religious right)
– fiscal conservatives (the Randists etc)
– Tea Party nutters
The smartest choice is to move away as quickly as possible from the American Taliban and the Tea Party. How many senate seats did the Tea Party cost the GOP in this election?
The Republicans
1) Learn about the true Christian values of empathy, compassion, caring and love for your fellow man (Not just your white fellow man)
2) Scour hate for those who are different from your soul.
3) Recognize that it is ok if not everyone has the same belief system as you. Your religious freedom stops at my door and mine takes over.
I like what Van Jones said about being a Christian on the Left. I feel very similar, living in Texas. We've been castigated as being unAmerican, unChristian. None of us risked putting an Obama sign up on car or home, due to retaliation of extremists. When the election was won, church friends were saying it was the end of America, God help us, etc.
It will be good to move on from the hate mongering.
"It will be good to move on from the hate mongering."
If only....
If they will let us. Perhaps it will be necessary to wean them off Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly rhetoric and hatefulness. Perhaps the Republicans will learn that instilling fear in the electorate is not the way to win.