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By David Gibson| Religion News Service,
Updated: Wednesday, November 7, 5:03 PM
Mitt Romney failed in his bid to win the White House back for Republicans, but the biggest losers in Tuesdays voting may be Christian conservatives who put everything they had into denying President Obama a second term and battling other threats to their agenda.
Instead of the promised victories, the religious right encountered defeat at almost every turn. Not only did Obama win convincingly, but Democrats held onto the Senate and the power to confirm judges and Wisconsin elected the nations first openly gay senator, Tammy Baldwin.
Meanwhile, Republican senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock went down to unanticipated defeat in large part because of their strongly anti-abortion views, and an effort in Florida to restrict abortion failed. For the first time ever, same-sex marriage proponents won on ballots in four out of four states, while marijuana for recreational use was legalized in two out of three states where the question was on the ballot.
Even Michele Bachmann, an icon among Christian conservatives, barely held onto her House seat in Minnesota while Tea Party favorite Allen West lost his congressional district in Florida.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/whats-next-for-religious-conservatives/2012/11/07/d1688f08-2926-11e2-aaa5-ac786110c486_story.html
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Interesting tidbit from article:
rug
(82,333 posts)What will be interesting is seeing whether the social agenda is downplayed as a drag on the right's economic agenda.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)badly without the christian right vote.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Hanging on to the hateful and divisive ideology will result in just that.
Movements based overtly on division cannot last. The strongest movements are based on union.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)Later they can repeat their mistakes at their leisure.