Great Day For American Polotics

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that will go a long way toward energizing the values voters at the base of the Republican Party,

Gee, wonder who they're pandering to this time? Religon is NOT supposed to be the basis of our laws.

The House has approved an amendment to the Constitution to outlaw flag burning and passed a bill to crack down on the practice of minors' crossing state lines for abortions to evade legal limits in their own states

Outlaw flag burning? This is jacked 100%. Although I haven't burn't any flags except to honorably dispose of them the freedom to express distaste for the govenment by burning flags has always been and shouldn't be made illegal. First it's this then it'll be the banning of protests all together.

One of the things I love about the US is the ability to move to different states to do things illegal in other states. If a minor can legally get an abortion in state X then by all means let them. Most people can't afford to change their residence purely for something like an abortion.

And although I don't find anything appealing about homosexual relationships I believe that they should be able to marry each other or have some sort of legal union equal to marriage.

I hope the midterm elections take away the GOP supremacy in Congress. The system of checks and balances doesn't work when the three branches are all puppets on the same hand.

I'd be very grateful if some of you would express your views on how powerful a force the religious right is in US politics.

It seems to me that they are a small but very influential group that has managed to convince the GOP that it has no chance without them. But is this true? On the whole, the American people seem to be quite distanced from most of the agenda this group promotes.

When the Democrat party appears to be in constant confusion mode, why does the evangelical right even matter to the Republican party?

I'm genuinely interested.

The Republican party has been like this since Reagan. I'm an avid supporter of the seperation of church and state and the Republicans seem to not understand that they are constantly trying to violate this principle. I don't want to live in the Christian version of Iran's system of Islamic Republicism.