Many Tea Partiers part of religious right:

[ChasC5]

Ok, so after months and months of denial, can we now say it’s at least 50% true?

Many Tea Partiers part of religious right: study | Reuters

WASHINGTON | Tue Oct 5, 2010 11:51am EDT
(Reuters) - Many supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement that has shaken up politics share the same views as the Christian right on social issues like abortion and the role of religion in public life, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

While the loosely organized Tea Party movement has focused largely on shrinking the size of government and other fiscal issues, its backers are more likely to support government restrictions on gay marriage and other social issues, the Public Religion Research Institute found in its American Values Survey.

The survey found significant overlap between the Tea Party, made up mostly of Republicans, and the religious right, which has played a significant political role for decades.

"On nearly all basic demographic characteristics, there are no significant differences between Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement and those who identify with the Christian conservative movement," the study's authors wrote.

Nearly half of those who identify with the Tea Party believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and a similar proportion thinks that public officials do not pay enough attention to religion, the survey found. They are more likely than the population as a whole to view America as a Christian nation.

Tea Party members are less likely than the general public to support same-sex marriage, abortion rights or a compromise on immigration reform that would allow people who are in the United States illegally to become citizens.
The survey reveals some of the underlying view of the populist movement that appears poised to make a major impact in the November 2 congressional elections.

United by anger at Washington, the movement has taken aim at officeholders from both parties, and several incumbent Republicans have been unseated by Tea Party-backed candidates in primary elections.

But 82 percent of those who identify with the Tea Party plan to vote for Republicans in the upcoming election, the survey found. Nearly three quarters said they usually vote Republican.

Americans as a whole are divided on the merits of the Tea Party. While 24 percent say they would be more likely to support a candidate who was affiliated with Tea Party groups, 31 percent said they would be less likely to do so.

Tea Party-backed candidates have advocated positions including cutting government spending, lowering taxes, curbing government regulation of private business, phasing out the Social Security retirement program, dismantling the Education Department and repealing President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.

The Tea Party gets its name from the 1773 Boston Tea Party anti-tax protest in which a band of Bostonians tossed crates of tea into the city's harbor to denounce a British tea tax.

The Public Religion Research Institute surveyed 3,013 U.S. adults by telephone between September 1 and September 14. It has a margin of error of 2 percentage points for the survey as a whole, and 5.5 percentage points for questions dealing with the Tea Party.





I’m all for a smaller government, but to totally discount many of the social changes that have been good for, not just some Americans, but all Americans, are completely ridiculous. If backwards is where the Tea party wants to take us, I say good luck with that. Because I can assure you, there are a lot of Americans who you will have a difficult time getting to go back to the 1930’s and before, and that way of life. There’s wishing and then there’s reality.

This ain’t Kansas anymore … Toto.

[Z06PDQ]

as Alan Grayson says: "the tea party wants their country back..............all the way back to the 1800's."

[WKMCD]

"Beware the zealots"

[Exotix]

Oh, well for instance, psycho sisters Palin, Bachmann, Angle & O'Donnell and some of the other Tea Party psychoidal males disguised as (R)'s such as Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich, DeMint & 'Taliban Dan' Webster want women pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen as just one of their platforms ...

... because God told them so ...

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

as Alan Grayson says: "the tea party wants their country back..............all the way back to the 1800's."

Good Luck on trying to bring Slavery Back; then you’ll really see who are the ones who cling to their Guns and Second Amendment Rights.

[Z06PDQ]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

Good Luck on trying to bring Slavery Back; then you’ll really see who are the ones who cling to their Guns and Second Amendment Rights.

the illegals are the "new" slaves.

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Z06PDQ

the illegals are the "new" slaves.

Anyone who is “wise” and knows their “history” should know you can never keep your foot on anyone’s neck forever. The Hispanic population is the fastest growing ethnic group in America.

Food for thought.

[Peter Pan]

Nov 2 will be the time to see if America continues on the path to socialism or we stop the madness in it's tracks and he'll yes repeal the Healthcare Bill, god did not issue health insurance or is it a birth right to have it forced upon you or be fined (taxed) if you do not comply.

1773 against taxes then and I am against new or any increased taxes now, cut the spending, or soon we will all be servants to the govt, oh what Obama wants us asking the govt for handouts, taking away the reason to excel.

[ChasC5]

Originally Posted by Peter Pan

Nov 2 will be the time to see if America continues on the path to socialism or we stop the madness in it's tracks and he'll yes repeal the Healthcare Bill, god did not issue health insurance or is it a birth right to have it forced upon you or be fined (taxed) if you do not comply.

1773 against taxes then and I am against new or any increased taxes now, cut the spending, or soon we will all be servants to the govt, oh what Obama wants us asking the govt for handouts, taking away the reason to excel.

Wow you are old..

[Exotix]

Originally Posted by ChasC5

Wow you are old..

Depends ... there's a method to the madness of the Tea Party as *Founding Father Revolutionists* ... once they start repealing amendments we're on the road to abolishing the entire U.S. Constitution ...



Here's the best representation of said Tea Bag *Take the Country Back logistics* ...

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