Should a political party have a litmus test on various moral issues?
” “That’s a tough one. I guess when it comes to this whole thing of politics, there’s the state and then there’s the church. And this is not the church. And it would be my view that we would have to engage people at various levels of understanding. And as far as the political party goes, I would hope that my ideas would prevail over someone, but I would not exclude someone from the party who may take a position that’s different from me. The governor of this state was the prime mover behind the gambling bill. Now, should I say he shouldn’t be a Republican if he’s pro-gambling? Well, you know, we could take an agenda out and sort of separate off and say if you’re not down the line here, as I understand that [James] Dobson made some sort of statement along that line-that he was going to leave the party if they didn’t come across. For the right or the wrong of it, being involved in this process, I know that until you actually get control of all the critical components that could block a de
