Religious, Right Turn Only?

Via Media Matters:

On the August 14 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, during a discussion of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s (D-DE) recent comment that past Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and John Kerry "let themselves be portrayed as anti-God," host Chris Matthews characterized Biden as saying that Gore and Kerry "created an image that they were somehow ... not really religious people. They don't share your evangelical views and your deeply religious views. They're too secular." In response, Time magazine assistant managing editor Michael Duffy asserted that "for the last 25 years, Democrats have done everything they can to alienate religious voters, faith-minded voters" and that "it seemed to be part of the program. They did it to woo a secular left that they thought didn't want to have anything to do with that." But given that some 90 percent of Americans say they believe in God (according to polling, which has been consistent over many years), and given that in the last 25 years, Americans have elected a Democrat to two presidential terms, and a second won the popular vote, a substantial number of religious voters must be voting for Democrats.

The Right has, for years, pandered to the religious groups and claimed moral superiority over the "Secular Left". They fail to realize that many people in the US want separation of Church and State. The Religious Right would have no problem replacing the Constitution with the Bible if not for the Secular Left (Lawyers would go insane with interpreting that). They fail to realize that there are differences even among the "religious" people and that people are not willing to submit to other's ideas of exactly what is right or wrong. If the religious republicans had to start defending their social issues with logic and reason instead of quoting scripture, they would be roundly defeated by everyone against them. The republicans would do much better if they learned that they are not any more moral than the rest of us.