Is the Religious Right in America Dead? [View all]

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By AUSCS, Fri, November 16, 2012

I recommend that Americans not exaggerate the Religious Right’s power but don’t underestimate it either.

The role of the Religious Right in the Republican Party and national political life is under a lot of scrutiny these days.

Everyone from Ralph Reed and Richard Land to Billy Graham and Tony Perkins did everything in their considerable power to steer the election to Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates, and they failed miserably. These folks even lost a string of referenda on issues such as taxpayer funding of religion, reproductive rights and marriage equality.

As a result of these losses, some pundits and prognosticators are declaring the fundamentalist political movement to be yesterday’s news. Few are pronouncing the Religious Right “undeniably and reliably” dead this time (as has happened often in the past). But respected analysts are finding it mighty sickly.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/quadrennial-question-religious-right-positively-absolutely-dead