Over at ReligionDispatches, Sarah Posner uses the list of anti-DOMA members in the House of Representatives to show (again, correctly) why it’s a mistake to see Tea Partiers as economic rather than social conservatives. I’d just add that there’s a longstanding reason why the Tea Party has become the movement of the moment for social conservatives. They joined the fray back in the 1970s as opponents of what they saw as government-mandated secularism. Big government has always been the enemy. Obamacare is just another manifestation of it, in their mind’s eye.
Why Tea Partiers oppose DOMA. Not.
Over at ReligionDispatches, Sarah Posner uses the list of anti-DOMA members in the House of Representatives to show (again, correctly) why it’s a mistake to see Tea Partiers as economic rather than social conservatives. I’d just add that there’s a longstanding reason why the Tea Party has become the movement of the moment for social […]
