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Politico shows the unity of Value's Voters and warns the Republicans that they cannot take their votes for granted if their focus on the economy is at the expense of the social issues. What happened in DE shows that they will not blindly follow the establishment when they ignore these issues.
Richard
Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said if Republicans
omit social issues like gay marriage and abortion from their document,
it will be at their peril. Pointing to insurgent victories of socially
conservative candidates like O’Donnell and Joe Miller, the Republican
nominee for Alaska’s Senate seat, Land cautioned that these blows to the
Republican establishment were orchestrated by socially conservative
Republicans, not libertarians.
“It will be a very serious mistake — but then again, the Republican
leadership is prone to making serious mistakes,” Land said. “The values
voters aren’t going to the back of the bus. We’re staying right where we
are. We’re not getting up and going to the back of the bus."
This
clarion call was sent to more than 470,000 signers of the Manhattan
Declaration, which include prominent religious leaders like Leith
Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, James
Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and Richard Land.
