The Republican Party now Endorses Sin


Apparently every year a high official in the Republican Party wishes Happy Pride Week to gays everywhere. This year, however, it drew push back from various Christian individuals and groups. Gone is "The Sanctity of Marriage." Now it is "Gay Marriage is OK." How could the party of God have fallen so far?

The Christian right has been rolled. It made an all out endorsement of the Republican Party and did not leave any room to bargain. The Republican Party leaders did what the Democratic Party would have done, or any politician would do. It boxed in the religious right so it had no bargaining power. It could be taken for granted. The right could plead, "We are your base. You have to please us first. After that you can look around for voters that might like us and court them." It is laughable that anyone would think in such a way.

Richard Nixon had a good way to summarize the strategy of candidates and parties. "If your base is not complaining about what you do, you have probably isolated yourself and will be defeated." Trump essentially did this and is still doing it. Goodbye Trump.

The Republican leadership knows the right will have to vote Republican so it is casting some bait into liberal constituencies trying to grab a few. No doubt it will have some success. I would guess we will see some overtures to women and choice on abortion we have not seen for a while. 

We have already seen some traditional Republican voting blocks vote Democrat. The suburbs were always reliable for Republicans until this past election. Some corporate presidents made known their support of Biden. Religious groups may see these former Republicans get something they want from Democrats and start thinking about that for themselves. 

According to pundits who worked in the Trump Whitehouse, Trump for sure will run for the Republican nomination. If party leaders prefer to have the party look unified and no one else challenges him we can see a party unable to move deeply into Democrat constituencies. What the Republican Party needs to do is what church denominations are doing, split up. Conservative branches of denominations will eventually die off in old age and the remaining part will survive. The same would happen to the Republican Party. 

A political party that deals in sin will struggle because different sins rise up the sin ladder and then fall off. Gay marriage has fallen off.



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