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What Obama and others seem to be up to is driving a wedge between right-wingers who turn to religion for political purposes and the religious who turn to politics to express deep moral concerns. I've always felt the most vocal 'Christaian conservatives' were conservatives first (homophobic, misogynistic, greedy etc.) and Christian second, and Christian only as a political power-play (cf the Kuo story). That group is highly influential regarding broad Christian voting patterns, despite the fact that they are a tiny minority of Christians in the US. Too many American Christians have bought into a myth that to be a good Christian they must vote republican. However, if progressives like Obama can cut those politically-driven Christian conservatives away from the general community of evangelicals who by-and-large care more about fighting greed, poverty, and pollution than gay marriage, there could be a sea-change in voting patterns.
