Lock-Stock and The Right's Smoking Barrel

It has always been quite clear, to me at least, that the Christian Right has more often than not been quite Wrong; take your pick on whatever topic suits your fancy. To be sure, this continues to be the case as its leaders have recently called for the National Association of Evangelicals’ (NAE) Policy Director in Washington to step down due to his campaigning activities against global climate change. However, the NAE rightly refused to bow down to the likes of coalition creeps like James Dobson (Focus on Family) and Tony Perkins (Family Research Council).
The coalition is calling foul (at least on the surface) over the Reverend Richard Cizik taking focus away from ‘the great moral issues of our time’ (i.e. abortion, gays and sex) by addressing the problems surrounding climate change. Ironically, climate change in this instance does not only refer to that of the global nature, but also the climate change within the Christian Right. Within the past year or so, it had come to fruition that the Bush administration does not take their Evangelical base nearly as seriously as earlier believed; outright calling them crazy at times.
Also ironic is how the NAE is very intentionally breaking ranks with the Christian Conservatives by vehemently denouncing the Bush administration’s role in its treatment of ‘war on terror’-related detainees, and “[reaffirming] the platform adopted three years ago, which enumerates [such] policy priorities [as] the environment, human rights and poverty” (Goodstein, 3/14/07 NYTimes, A15). The fact that these are all such worthy causes should immediately reveal that the righties would want nothing to do with them. They say they are primarily concerned with morality, but such anti-humanitarian stances demonstrate just how beholden they are to their corporate masters, who will not bat an eyelash at donating money to ‘Christian’ non-profits in order to secure votes for the other corporate minions, the GOP.
Finally, perhaps above all else, this inner-turmoil is demonstrative of just how far the once mighty Christian Right hath fallen. Any internal quibbling in the past would likely have been quashed way before any heathen liberals might be able to read about it in the Jew York Times! The November (thumpin’) elections were certainly a mandate on Republican politics and it has at least had the positive effect of liberating groups like the NAE, who so sorely wants it to be known that Evangelicals do not all walk in lock-step with Christian conservatives and sects of the GOP.