Weekly Poll: Does the Christian Right Control the Republican Party?
Many observers have long felt that conservative evangelical Christians had acquired a strangle-hold on the Republican Party and prominent evangelicals have not exactly denied it. According to Jerry Falwell, conservative Christians control the Republican Party and have made it their own. It’s not simply that they have a lot of influence, but that the GOP can’t do anything without the approval of religious conservatives. Do you agree? Back in 2004, Jerry Falwell was quoted as saying: “The Republican Party does not have the head count to elect a president without the support of religious conservatives… I tell my Republican friends who are always talking about the ‘big tent,” I say make it as big as you want to, but if the candidate running for president is not pro-life, pro-family … you’re not going to win… You cannot be a sincere committed born-again believer who takes the Bible seriously and vote for a pro-choice anti-family candidate.” I think that Falwell is correct in what he i
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