[2ndDivisionVet]

Link to article:

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/story/opinion/2015/12/30/time-gop-divorce-christian-right/78023336/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yep....just like the Dems, all they want is money and votes

Principles be damned

[ColdOne]

I never thought I would live to see the day. It will be us VS them. I guess it always has been..... just didn’t want to believe it.

Have a Happy New Year Vet!

[OpusatFR]

“When one thinks about it, Christianity is an inherently left-wing religious system. This extends from Jesus Christ, the ultimate hippie of his day — if he did indeed exist —”

The authors beliefs aside, wouldn’t it blow the brains of both left and right if the Christian Democratic Party arose?

Certainly the European version is left, but ours would be an entirely different viewpoint.

[demshateGod]

Some Freeper will be along shortly to agree with Joecotototo.

[sport]

The divorce occurred at least 7 years ago. The Christian right just had not realized that were the GOP's cuckold .

[DaveyB]

I feel so used every time the GOPe presumes to have my vote. It is time for the silent majority to give the boot to the godless GOPe.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The GOP is no longer the party of the right. They are nothing but undercover DemocRats.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Beyond the Christian conservative movement’s sheer goofiness, if any party of the center-right is to prosper, it must be somewhat secular in character. This is because the overwhelming majority of modern-day Christian denominations, from the Roman Catholic Church to mainline Lutherans, are in favor of atrocities like unchecked immigration and welfare statism. When one thinks about it, Christianity is an inherently left-wing religious system. This extends from Jesus Christ, the ultimate hippie of his day — if he did indeed exist — to Paul (nee Saul) who supposedly began evangelizing so that all social and personal inequalities would be absolved through faith in Christ alone. [...] Judaism, on the other hand, is far more adept to political conservatism, yet in America, at least, this is not reflected in voting trends.

This idiot does not get it. Notice he does not explain why 75 percent of the American Jewish vote went to Hussein Obama...TWICE!?

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

I have frequently said, and firmly believe, that the biggest enemies of social conservatives are liberal Republicans.

[kcvl]

Joseph Cotto is a historical and social journalist who writes about politics, economics and social issues. Email him at joseph.f.cotto@gmail.com.

[datura]

The GOP is finally out of the closet now, rather than fellating the Dems behind closed doors.

The 2016 election cycle will witness their marriage and the rise of a new Conservative party by the rest of us who can’t stand the old parties. There are lots of angry Dems too - and they will end up voting for Trump in order to protect their jobs.

Only the dyed in the wool communists will vote for Hillary or the GOPe.

[Fido969]

Joesph Cotton is an anti-Christian “libertarian” who thinks that the 1% of the population that supports the "libertarian" party is going to make two whits worth of difference in any election.

The fact is, the pro-pot, gay marriage wing of the “conservative” party appeals only to a handful of self-centered white male millennials, who would be lucky if they were sober enough to find their polls to vote on on election day.

Their pro-pot, pro-abortion, gay marriage, anti-military views would be better suited to the Democratic party. We'd be better off if they took their self-serving, disruptive 2% and screwed up that party - instead of demanding that thee pissant little Napoleons take over the Republican party with their loser-stoner demands.

[xzins]

This guy’s questioning whether Jesus even existed gives insight into his worldview. He’s probably an atheist.

Atheists are none to fond of Christians, and there M.O. the last few centuries has been in their minds the belittlement of Christianity.

For the GOP to jettison conservative Christianity would be parallel to the Dems driving out minorities. The numbers lost would doom their existence as a separate party, but more likely is the takeover of their party by a movement determined to elevate conservatism in all its forms.

[vpintheak]

Who is this guy and how big a following does he have?
He sounds like a Wing-nut!

[DiogenesLamp]

Time for the GOP to divorce the Christian right (The masks are coming off)

No, it's time for the Christian right to shove it up their backside and break it off inside them.

I urged anyone who would listen in Kentucky and Mississippi to burn those two bastards, but everyone kept saying "I couldn't possibly vote for the Democrat!"

Instead, you have just empowered our much more dangerous enemies within our existing party structure.

It's long past time we stopped taking this crap from the Liberal elite of the party. F*** them, and F*** their arrogance. We can burn them, and that is what we should do.

[Dr. Sivana]

When one thinks about it, Christianity is an inherently left-wing religious system.

Christianity spawned wetsern civilization. The author of the piece even questions whether Jesus of Nazareth ever existed.

Even speaking on his level, he ignores the role that conservative Christians played in 1980, pretending that the influence didn't come up until the "mid-'80s". I was there. I know better.

We also know that thanks to the nomination of Romney, four-million conservative christians stayed home or voted third party. That is the given. Baxter wants to throw away four million votes. Why? He wants his flavor of conservatism, and if it has to come with moral baggage, he'll take his chances with the lefties.

I've got news for Mr. Baxter. The bulk of people with his viewpoint (excepting some right leaning libertarians) are aligned with the Establishment. WE are ejecting THEM. Baxter and company can dig up John B. Anderson and form a third party. There are plenty of people who support traditional morality who are not evangelicals, but are Catholics (like me), Orthodox, some Mormons, Orthodox Jews, main-liners who wondered who high-jacked their church, and people who aren't particularly religious but find it more agreeable to live in a society where people have certain values based on Natural Law, rooted in the particularly history of this country. I believe Mr. Trump belongs to those last two groups. I know that evangelical Senator Cruz is supportive of Catholic nuns' religious rights and the religious rights of Mormon businessmen and Jewish caterers as well.

Our Constitution was devised with a religious people in mind, we are not easily jettisoned. And Catholics like me don't believe in divorce.

[combat_boots]

My Dear Departed father used to say to me, “Once you make a decision, don’t look back.”

Good advice.

I won’t.

[iowamark]

He’s a Baron in Rwanda!

http://www.caglecartoons.com/archiveColumnist.asp?columnistID={C454C6D5-9EF7-497C-AD24-785B2802A67F}
“Joseph Ford Cotto, 1st Baron de Cotto, GCCCR hails from central Florida, writing about political, economic, and social issues of the day. In the past, he covered current events and style for The Washington Times’s Communities section, where he interviewed personalities ranging from Fmr. Ambassador John Bolton to Dionne Warwick. Cotto was also a writer for Blogcritics Magazine and Yahoo’s contributor network, among other publications. In 2014, H.M. King Kigeli V of Rwanda bestowed a hereditary knighthood upon him, which was followed by a barony the next year. Cotto recently completed a book about royalty in America.”

[Jemian]

Divorce! for abandonment, maybe.

The Christian has already left.