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huge of a part of American Society. They have a few things going for them that makes them look a lot larger than they really are.
For one thing, they are intent on being "one issue voters", this issue is usually the abortion situation. They only discuss "morality" when it benefits them. They consistently refuse to take on the hypocrisy in their own ranks, and that alone is turning many of them away from the process.
They have access to media, basically because they are purporting to put out a mess age that some feel is so important that the very earth's survival rests on what they say is "truth", but they have it wrong, they are essentially Calvinists, and they simply want others to fall in line w/their point of view. Most Americans think they are whacko, but they tend to leave them alone, because they think they are harmless. Rather than being harmless, they can have an impact because they vote, especially locally, in blocks, whereas mainstream Americans hardly vote at all!
Looking at this whole Religious Right thing in perspective, they are but 10% of the population, but if all 10% vote, and only 35-40% of the rest of Americans vote, that is where they get their clout.
There is far more blame to be cast on slacking voters than there is on the Religious Right.
They are getting caught in the very trap they laid for others, they are being destroyed by their own hypocrisy. Fools tend to never learn, and for all of their harping of morality, the Bible, both OT and NT see hypocrisy as a very bad thing....far worse than sex, which is what their hung up on anyway.
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