Thursday, November 09, 2006
What Was That About "Conservatives" Really Winning This Tuesday?
The religio-racist right suffered its first major ballot setbacks this week:
From the country's heartland, voters sent messages that altered America's culture wars and dismayed the religious right - defending abortion rights in South Dakota, endorsing stem cell research in Missouri, and, in a national first, rejecting a same-sex marriage ban in Arizona. Conservative leaders were jolted by the setbacks and looked for an explanation Wednesday. Gay-rights and abortion-rights activists celebrated. The verdict on abortion rights was particularly clear. Oregon and California voters defeated measures that would have required parents to be notified before a girl under 18 could get an abortion, and South Dakotans - by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent - rejected a new state law that would have banned all abortions except to save a pregnant woman's life.Looks like the Fundie wave has crested. The exurban white-flighters that flock to the megachurches are starting to be less enchanted with the RRR's package deal.
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