Old School Cons: Whatever happened to the seperation of Church and State? ?

Question

Do the religious right have too much influence in the GOP?

Answer 1

Influence...h**l they own you. Why else would a sensible person like McCain with good military credentials and nearly 40 years experience in Washington, need to bring Sarah Palin on board to secure his "base"?

He is a household name in the Republican Party. She is a nobody with no REAL political experience and no value to the ticket other than she gives him the Religious Right.

And...apparently the Republicans felt that the Religious Right was more important than the Independent vote, because she cost him that.

Poor Lieberman was wasting his breath tonight.  

Answer 2

What margaret h said.

Answer 3

The GOP panders to them, and then doesn't do very much for them.

Same thing with the abortion issue.

What they should do is form their own party, because it is obvious as h**l the GOP uses them.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 4

a conservative preacher will walk up to you and say "What is more important than God?"

if you say... well if you say anything... they will run to their congregations and talk about how you're a "tool of the devil" and how you put things before God... and they tell their preacher buddies... and before long... you lost half your base...

because, as many have found out before... you can't fight with God... or people's ideas of God...

Answer 5

There is no such thing.

The First Amendment to the US Constitution says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

The idea of "separation of church and state" is a fiction.

The Constitution merely prevents the government from designating a "state religion" such as there was in England from which we declared our Independence.

Check out the Federalist Papers.

The obverse of your question is: does the secular left have too much influence in the Democratic Party?

Why do they seek to keep religion out of the public square, thereby preventing the "free exercise thereof"?