Written By : John Hawkins

Every time the GOP takes a beating at the ballot box there are calls to get rid of those doggone social conservatives — or as Kathleen Parker refers to them, the “wrinkly white haired guy“ who almost completely ignored issues like gay marriage and abortion on the campaign trail, even though Obama had huge weaknesses on those issues. So, if a non-socially conservative GOP is such a huge winner at the polls, shouldn’t John McCain be gleefully preparing to knife the conservative movement in the back from the White House — as opposed to gleefully preparing to knife the conservative movement in the back from the Senate?

I guess that’s one of those questions we’ll never be able to answer. You know, sort of like: if socially conservative issues like opposition to gay marriage are such huge political losers, how is it that those issues keep winning at the ballot box? Moreover, why is it that Barack Obama — who has done everything except be a flower girl at a gay wedding to let people know that he really supports gay marriage — adamantly claims to believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman? This is not exactly up there with the Bermuda Triangle on the mystery meter, my friends.

Perhaps after you About one-third of Catholics in the United States are now Hispanic.” Moreover, 90% of Hispanics are members of some branch of the Christian faith. The same goes for black Americans, “85 percent (of whom) say religion is very important in their lives.”

All that being said, I will grant you social conservatism can be a loser if it comes across as preachy, bossy, or overdone. Moreover, there is a weird discomfort some people have about Christians who are serious about their faith getting interested in government. However, Christians had better be interested in the government because the government is certainly interested in them. It’s interested in shaping the minds of their children, it’s interested in shaping the culture around them, and it’s interested in shaping who gets to be married in their church. If people of faith are willing to help the GOP in return for having their interests protected in Washington, the Republican Party would be extraordinarily foolish to turn them away.

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