White evangelicals and perhaps evangelicals as a whole are incredibly naive. Those voters will accept at face value anyone who utters the right words and will gladly overlook flaws that would make them unacceptable to any other political bloc.
This article quotes Al Mohler, an intellectual leader of the SBC and President of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, as saying Ralph Reed poured millions of dollars into the effort to elect Romney. He ignored the fact that Ralph Reed was shown to be a co-conspirator in the scandal that surrounded Republican lobbyist and fund raiser, Jack Abramoff. He was shown to have lied to defraud clients to promote the conservative evangelical political agenda and people just don't forget that stuff.The Religious Right is perceived more and more as being bigoted and racist in their vehement battle against civil rights for gay people. More and more Americans are deciding that the gay population deserves the same protections the Constitution provides for others.
And, it may be noted that in the past the Southern Baptist Convention in particular has designated the Mormon Church as a cult and a false prophet of Christianity saying that the church was not Christian at all. Then during this election they spurned a President who professes Christianity in favor of one that a year ago was not even a Christian. Even if God is not ticked off the American people are at this callous act of hypocrisy.
You cannot lie with wolves in sheep's clothing and claim God's favor.
This, however, is something that those who apply a religious test to our candidates must come to terms with. First they have to decide what God has to say about all this.
Perhaps it is time to return to our foundation of spurning government ties with our faith.
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