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"The Republican Party does not have the head count to elect a president without the support of religious conservatives," Falwell said at an election training conference of the Christian Coalition.
Falwell said evangelical Christians are now "by far the largest constituency" within the Republican Party, their route to dominance beginning in 1979 with his founding of the Moral Majority, a precursor to the Christian Coalition.
"I tell my Republican friends who are always talking about the 'big tent,' I say make it as big as you want to, but if the candidate running for president is not pro-life, pro-family . . . you're not going to win," he said.
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And it's sad because it's all too true. They really do have that party by the balls. Without them, where would the Republicans be?
I would tear my hair out daily if the only currently viable part aligned with my political philosophy was so thoroughly hijacked by a group of religious nutballs like Falwell and Robertson.
Again, they are like the Taliban. They are doing their best to establish a fundamentalist christian ideology on America. They don't need guns and overt terror, they have the vote count in the proper political party to actually have a shot at it.