Ross Douthat: The Tempting of the Christian Right

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The Tempting of the Christian Right - NYTimes.com

An excellent column.

 

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Conservative Christianity in America, both evangelical and Catholic, faces a looming demographic challenge: A rising generation that is more unchurched than any before it, more liberal on issues like gay marriage, and allergic to the apocalyptic rhetoric of the Pat Robertson-Jerry Falwell era. To many younger Americans, religious conservatism as they know it often seems to stand for a kind of institutionalized hypocrisy — a right-wing Tartufferie that’s incensed by the idea of gay wedlock but tolerant of straight divorce, forgiving of Republican sins but judgmental about Democratic indiscretions, and eager to apply moral litmus tests only on issues that benefit the political right.

Probably the most biting observation about how people like me view the Religious Right.

But it's because of this I now hope that Newt Gingrich is the Republican nominee... if only so I can hear him try to address them and see what their response is.