By 2008 the Religious Right’s old guard appeared to be losing young evangelicals.
Evidence
It wasn’t clear, however, if Dobson’s opinion still mattered. With young evangelicals’ apparent defection from the politics of the Religious Right, and from the Republican Party, it seemed by 2008 that “the old lions of the Christian Right” were “suddenly sputtering,” as one journalist remarked. During the campaign, some evangelicals came to Obama’s defense. Before his departure, the NAE’s Richard Cizik had provided assurances that Obama was indeed “a fellow brother in Christ.” Megachurch pastor Rick Warren welcomed Obama to his church, and a number of evangelicals worked to broaden “values issues” to include poverty, the environment, and health care. It was McCain’s surprising choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate that helped the old guard regroup, remaking the election into a familiar culture-wars contest. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 530
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Religious Right’s stances drove liberal-minded Americans out of denominations entirely — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 446; The Religious Right includes more than fundamentalists — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 36; Age, not aging, drives Christian nationalist support, predicting its decline through cohort replacement. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 191 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Religious Right’s stances drove liberal-minded Americans out of denominations entirely — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 446; The Religious Right includes more than fundamentalists — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 36; Age, not aging, drives Christian nationalist support, predicting its decline through cohort replacement. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 191 (+1 more)