For the religious right, faith without works

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By Dana Milbank, Friday, January 20, 12:11 PM

God knows what has become of the religious right.

The movement of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson has been in decline for some time, but recent events suggest that they are wandering in the political wilderness.

A fresh symptom of the trouble came this month during the meeting of 150 evangelical leaders in Texas, where the deeply divided deacons of the religious right had to take three votes before opting to endorse Rick Santorum, who has no real chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination.

Richard Land, a top figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, explained to NPR the choice of Santorum over Mitt Romney this way: “Before we marry the guy next door, don’t you think we ought to have a fling with a tall, dark stranger and see if he can support us in the manner to which we’d like to be accustomed?”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/religious-right-has-lost-its-political-influence/2012/01/20/gIQAsnMrDQ_story.html

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1. Well,

the Republican party's been treating them like a piece of ass on the side for forty years.

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2. That's why Newt's leading.

[rrneck]

3. Yep, he's an old hand at it. nt