TBV Feature: Can the Dems win the sex-is-evil white people's vote?

I like Amy Sullivan' work. One of her specialties is the effects of religion on politics. But one of her recent, not-very-inspired suggestions to placate the Christian Right has been drawing some fire. Especially from Steve Gilliard, who doesn't regard her analysis very highly to begin with:

God, Amy Sullivan is just incredibly [Cheney]ing clueless. I was going to say stupid, but she's obviously not. She just thinks you can appease evil and you cannot.

Here's a hint. Many white people are fundies because they are also racist and anti-semitic and anti-catholic. The Fundie church reenforces their prejudices, allows them to segregate their kids, and segregate their lives. While ordinary people may be no more prejudiced than you or I, their leaders have a history of racial hatred back to the days of segregation.

Black people are deeply religious and socially conservative, yet the vast majority reject these kinds of social jihads. Why? Because they don't [Cheney]ing work. Black evangelicals vote Democratic like other black people. Did she ever consider, for a second, that these views have more to do than just the Bible?

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