What’s the 2014 election really about? Religious vs. women’s rights
It's about women all right. The GOP is about to discover just how badly they and their lackeys at the SC fucked this up, BIG time.
What’s the 2014 election really about? Religious vs. women’s rights
By Bill Schneider
July 10, 2014
The question that best predicts a person’s politics today is not about income or education. It’s religion: How often do you go to church? Regular churchgoers — including fundamentalist Protestants, observant Catholics, even many Orthodox Jews — vote Republican. Voters who rarely or never go to church vote Democratic.
President Ronald Reagan brought the religious right into the Republican coalition. The Reagan coalition is the Old America — and religious rights are a touchstone issue.
Democrats draw strong support from the unchurched: The steadily increasing minority of Americans — now about 20 percent — who are unaffiliated with any organized religion. They’re the people who, when asked if they are Protestant, Catholic or Jewish, say “I’m nothing.” Democrats dare not claim them, however, because they would run the risk of being labeled “the godless party.”
The Old America has been losing ground politically. Older white men and religious Americans are a shrinking portion of the electorate. They remain holed up in their fortified congressional-district redoubts but no longer control a presidential majority. The Old America lost dramatically on the issue of same-sex marriage. Now it’s turning to the federal courts for protection. The irony is that the religious right used to complain bitterly about activist federal judges handing down decisions that violated their religious rights on issues like abortion, school prayer, evolution and gay rights....
MORE at http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/10/prepare-for-a-clash-of-fundamentals-in-the-2014-election/
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