Is This the End of the Religious Right in America?
Damian Thompson thinks it is. He makes an interesting point regarding Mitt Romney's beliefs: "Two points worth noting about this election. First, the Religious Right – and how dated that phrase already sounds – united around a candidate who, by most standards, is not even a Christian. The lack of an anti-Mormon backlash among orthodox Catholics and Protestants who were brought up to regard Latter-day Saints as sinister cultists tells its own story." I can't disagree. I witnessed a great deal of dismay at Romney's candidature from my American friends. I can't help but wonder if this means that a good number of Republicans did not vote for him? Certainly there is a broad swath of Christian American who would not have supported Romney, and probably, not Santorum either for his Catholic credentials. Everything I have read about Romney suggests his personal morality is of a very high standard, married to the same woman since he was seventeen, gave tons to ch...