CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in ...MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that?
CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. they live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance at them and don't share their values.
MATTHEWS: So this gay marriage issue and other issues related to the gay lifestyle are simply tools to get elected?
CARLSON: That's exactly right. It's pandering to the base in the most cynical way, and the base is beginning to figure it out.
Possibly the most important question remaining in this election is whether or not Evangelical Christians will realize that they have been betrayed by the Republican elites who have used their faith to twist every government policy in to the most un-Christian reality possible.
Blessed are the poor, for yours would be the Kingdom of God if you weren't so damned lazy.
Who would Jesus torture?
Suffer the little pages...
Al Weed's Blog gives this subject a much better treatment.