Hat-tip to science education champion Ed Brayton (Dispatches from the Culture Wars), who highlights the tension between Republican Senator from Iowa, Chuck Grassley (photo), and the religious right within his party. This is clear evidence of the continuing ascendancy of the religious right in Iowa. The story's source is none other than the rightwing Moonie-owned organ, The Washington Times,
Evangelical Christians in Iowa, dominant in the state's Republican Party, have denied Sen. Charles E. Grassley his request for a place on the state's delegation to this summer's Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.
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"The Republican Party of Iowa is moving significantly to the right on social issues," the just-ousted Iowa Republican National Committee member Steve Roberts told The Washington Times. "It hurts John McCain's chances to win this state."
As Ed summarized: "They're upset because Grassley is investigating financial shenanigans by a number of TV evangelists, all of whom preach the 'prosperity gospel' - recognized as a fraud and a scam even by most Christians."
"Religious" in the term "religious right" basically just means that the religious right will biblically proof-text their way into a justification to religiously practice petty and Machiavellian politics. No charity there. Grassley showed integrity and initiative, and the religious right in Iowa's GOP smacked him around for it. Nice!
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