They’ve certainly helped the Republican party, but the Republican party hasn’t done jack squat for them.
The Christian http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3065? It’s legal in Massachusetts and California, soon to be legal in more states, and it won’t be that long until it’s the law of the land. Pornography? It’s not only more prevalent than ever, it’s ubiquitous. They’ve certainly helped the Republican party, but the Republican party hasn’t done jack squat for them.
There’s a new book out about the death of the Christian Right, and how the influence of evangelicals has been greatly exaggerated. It’s by Christine Wicker and is called “The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church.” Suffice it to say for now that the death of the Christian Right is a function of ethnopolitics. It was a movement made up of white people, much as they hated to admit it, and no matter how hard they strained to deny it. When it began, in the late 1970’s, America was still an overwhelmingly white country. It’s no longer so, and becoming less so every day. Half the babies being born in this country are non-white. As a movement made up of white people, it was inevitable that both the membership and the influence of the Christian Right would shrink as the white percentage of the population http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3402. Needless to say, those kids aren’t going to turn into eager Young Republicans in sync with the values of a bunch of old white folks.
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/2008/05/09/the-christian-right-rip/
http://www.kinism.net/ is a stellar source for racially aware Christians.