The conversion is complete

Andrew Sullivan argues that the “Christianist” conversion of the GOP is now complete in the form of: Texas Gov. Rick Perry: who “launched his campaign in a revival meeting calling for God to solve our economic problems (having previously led mass prayers for the end of the Texas drought)” and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann: who […]

Andrew Sullivan argues that the “Christianist” conversion of the GOP is now complete in the form of:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry: who “launched his campaign in a revival meeting calling for God to solve our economic problems (having previously led mass prayers for the end of the Texas drought)” and

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann: who “emerges entirely out of Dominionist theology and built her entire career in the Christianist world of home-schooling, and anti-gay demonization.”

What say ye, readers? Is the GOP (as Sullivan argues) now nothing more than “a religious movement clothed in anti-government radicalism”?


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