"It may be something we would expect from a politician," Vitagliano added, "but I guess there were some of us who would hope the president was not simply a politician."Ed Vitagliano is a spokesperson for the American Family Association.
The Republican Party consider conservative evangelicals obedient lap-dogs: they merely throw us a symbolic bone now and then (marriage protection week, partial birth abortion ban, etc.) Don't expect any politician to get to the root of American society's problems--too many Americans are non-Christians--and always have been.
Food for thought, and grounds for further research: in the United States, at what time did membership in evangelical churches constitute a majority of the American people? I'd guess never. We have always been in the minority--and always will be. And I'm waiting for the "life begins at conception" conservatives to start campaigning for the banning of most birth control methods. I'm sure that would be quite popular in this "Christian nation."
The libertarian in me wonders why the government has a "compelling state interest" in marriage. The Christian in me wonders why the church gave up authority in the institution of marriage and handed it to the state. If the state has it, they can do with it what they want. Period. We have given them the power. I don't see a way to get it back.
