A Moment Of Truth For The Religious Right

In review of all that has been planned in preceding years the religious right must consider what has transpired here in this nation. The problem is, of course, they do not see themselves as being co-opted. If they did they would understand that the repulican party will not throw away the best political football they ever had and that is the hook keeping a significant portion of the religious vote in the party corner. You see, if issues such as abortion were ever passed the religious would then feel free to wander away to other political parties and other issues. The republican power structure has no real intention of passing on any of those hooks and that is why after many hard fought years for the religious right led on by promises from the republicans when the mission would be effectually accomplished, that is, a religious rightwing president with both houses of congress republican that no abortion bill was submitted. What you heard was "the people are not ready for an abortion bill" and it doesn't matter what the excuses were, after all those years of political struggle to get here you heard "the people are not ready for an abortion bill". Wow, as if the Bush administration and Republican congress have been concerned about what the people are "ready" for. That the religious right have believed that means they can believe about anything clinging to their party and a president. But oh sure, as if the republican party was concerned about the will of the people where their extreme pro business, pro rich legislation was concerned. That should say it all. They proposed and passed landslide amounts of bills to suit the priviledged and powerful omitting virtually any legislation to protect consumers or workers and they passed on putting an abortion bill up in order to keep the heartland votes in their corner for future election purposes in order to pass bills to continue to suit and serve the powerful but with the religious right under such strong fervent influence they do not see it. They do not see that they are ONLY being used to promote the power and influence of the monied. Projecting ones allegiance and faith in God toward a political party ideology begats darkness and one would hope the religious right will raise their heads up, crack an eye open and take a look at what is really going on around them.