Religion and Republican Politics

The truth is now starting to seep out. The Republican establishment has only been pandering to the Christian Right to get votes. These accusations have been coming from Republicans. Carlson Tucker and David Kuo. The latter was part of the White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives. Kuo wrote that Karl Rove has privately refered Christian conservative leaders as nuts.



CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in...

MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that?

CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. They live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance at them and don't share their values.

MATTHEWS: So this gay marriage issue and other issues related to the gay lifestyle are simply tools to get elected?

CARLSON: That's exactly right. It's pandering to the base in the most cynical way, and the base is beginning to figure it out.

David Kuo's book "Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction" details that the Bush administration used religion for their own political purposes.



Both videos were found at Crooks and Liars.