11-12-2004, 10:35 AM
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bush is already showing signs of inclusiveness on social issues. the 22% says: grrrrrrr.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...ines-frontpage
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In recent days, some evangelical leaders have warned in interviews that the Republican Party would pay a price in future elections if its leaders did not take up the issues that brought evangelicals to the polls.
"Business as usual isn't going to cut it, where the GOP rides to victory by espousing traditional family values and then turns around and rewards the liberals in its ranks," said Robert Knight, who heads an affiliate of Concerned Women for America, a Christian conservative advocacy group.
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Karl Rove, Bush's chief political strategist, told reporters this week that he believed evangelicals deserved much of the credit for Bush's reelection, and that future candidates should heed the lessons of the 2004 election when it came to voters' opposition to same-sex marriage.
"This is an issue about which there is a broad general consensus," Rove said. "People would be well-advised to pay attention to what the American people are saying."
At the same time, Bush and his aides have focused most of their comments on other issues in the days following the election, such as revamping the tax system and reworking Social Security.
Moreover, Bush's most recent remarks on same-sex marriage infuriated some Christian conservative leaders.
"I don't think we should deny people rights to a civil union, a legal arrangement, if that's what a state chooses to do," Bush said on ABC in an interview that aired a week before the election. His statement put him at odds not only with some social conservatives but with the Republican Party platform.
"The president has to stop endorsing homosexuality indirectly by supporting civil unions," said Knight of Concerned Women for America.
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