It looks to me that the “Religious Whites” are looking more like bigots. Not racial bigots but social bigots. They prefer to have their pensions lost, their wages lowered and their health benefits stripped rather than vote for change.
They have been brainwashed into thinking that the Republicans will do what they have promised before (for the last twenty-five years) and have yet to deliver on.
It has amassed me that the Republican Party has chosen emotion over brains every time. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, Gore graduated at the top of his class, Kerry was up there as well and Obama was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review.
Both Bushes were near the bottom and just mediocre students and McCain was fifth from the bottom. I want an INTELLIGENT President.

I am college educated, affluent, conservative, white and a Christian. We must remember that John McCain was always known as a womanizer and married Cindy one month after he divorced his first family. Cindy recently was charged with drug theft. I heard Palin suggest that our attack on Iraq was a mission of God.
Gov. Palin paraded her 17 year old, unmarried daughter on the stage with the boyfriend, the impregnator, in tow. (With these two families in the White House the tabloids would have a field day.)
Don’t “Christians” know that Jesus was a peace maker and preached mightily against the sins of adultery and fornication?

As I’ve pointed out at http://egghead.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/SpiritualPolitics/2008/09/the_gap_the_gap.html what Obama has to show for his religious outreach is a significant shift in his direction among pretty regular white worship attenders–those who say they go to services at least once a month but less than weekly.

The way I see it, it gets down to this. We have the choice of a Hero or a Zero.

We, my husband and I are registered Republicans and will be changing our status as we have come to see how we’ve been DUPED under the guises “Pro-life” and “anti-homosexuality” stances. As born-again believers we know that GOD has written HIS LAWS on the hearts of mankind: Romans 2:14-15, and also that HE gives choice in our spirits, hearts and souls, and bodies i.e.: “the two trees in the garden of Eden.” Of course GOD could have made it mandatory for all of us to serve HIM, but HE wants us to have the CHOICE to make that decision. Choice is an inalienable RIGHT given to us from GOD. I’m sure GOD hopes we learn from our mistakes as “sin” begets death.Man cannot create a law that would make us moral or immoral, that’s a choice that only we can make as individuals between GOD and each of us, separately and independently. Choice, like gravity, has always existed and will always exist – it is a law of GOD. Attempts to legislate morality are moot.

Amen, two the previous comments, Christians do not act like the Republican Party. What a disgrace to Christianty. God must be grieving in his heart.

RE: “We, my husband and I are registered Republicans and will be changing our status”
illogical commentary – downright goofy interpetation. The Bible indicates we have choice, because of the ability to accept or reject what God instructs us to do. But it is clear that God has explicit expectation and judgments for those who go against His directions.
Legislating morality is exactly the PRIMARY purpose of law – From God and from human government. DUH!!! When God says believe in His Son’s sacrifice from a Christian perspective, there is clearly defined legislation in the Law of Christ describing the results of making either choice – Yes or No. The New Covenant is an unconditional contract and it is based explicitly on the Law of Christ — and it doesn’t matter where a person has the LAW written in terms of what is expected. And when a human government says that it is against the law to murder and rape your neighbor’s children, that again is legislating morality. Or isn’t that clear to you. Your point seems to say we should neither have the law nor take a stand on it!! Your understanding of the Bible is wildy fallacious in application — and frankly goofy.

Re: We, my husband and I are registered Republicans and will be changing our status
Well said Ralph. I dont understand your reasoning Lucia? The bible is full of laws. But nevermind the Bible, our lives are governed by laws daily! Murder is illeagle yet people continue to choose to murder. Should we legalize murder? Rape? You make no sense whatsoever and I seriously doubt your sincerity. You are probably a liberal trying to look like a republican that is switching.

Here’s the problem: you people want to thrust “your” god down “our” throats. I want you to take you bible and read it, live by it and leave the rest of us alone…
I can’t seriously get all shakey over your morose feelings of doom. And, yeah, religion is just one big set of laws after another, or rules, same difference. Apparently, some of you want to live by them, and others want to just quote them endlessly. Tiringly so!

Thank you Lucia. There is no way that the world can be changed by having one set of faith standards imposed on others through legislation. Yes, there are basic rights/laws that are espoused in our Bill of Rights but even those have been interpreted in various ways which have led to having to have the Supreme Court make decisions. As a born again believer in Jesus Christ I am tired of the Religious Right and the Republican Party coming into the Christian church to get us to vote their way. I don’t plan to let them use me ever. I don’t plan to go along with them expecting me as a Christian woman to elect an unqualified and poorly veted woman as VP just because she’s a Christian and a woman. I think that my time as a Christian is better spent helping the poor and needy, supporting and caring for orphans and widows, and making sure that children are in homes that protect them. So that is why I cannot support the Republican Party because their issues are not those issues.

Christian conduct is big in my book. The behaviors that the Republican party is demonstrating is horrible and contrary to God’s word. It’s not gracious, it’s devisive, not honest and they don’t represent peace, love or any of the main tenets in the Word of God.
So you don’t believe in abortion (murder) – Well you murder someone with your words… is that better??? I think not.
Another blogger had it right… God must be grieved.