Republican candidate for vice president, Paul Ryan, found time in his busy campaigning schedule during the closing hours of the 2012 election to appeal to the religious right for support.
The call was organized by Ralph Reed’s socially conservative Faith and Freedom Coalition.
“We understand the stakes of our fundamental freedoms being on the line, like religious freedom — such as how they’re being compromised in Obamacare.”
Ryan added that Obama’s vision was “a path that grows government, restricts freedom and liberty and compromises those values — those Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values that made us a great and exceptional nation in the first place.”
Ryan’s rhetoric on the call was much stronger than what he and Romney have generally used on the campaign trail when speaking to a broader audience.
The campaign did, however, go after Obama during the controversy over whether religiously affiliated groups should be required to cover the cost of contraception in their health care plans at no charge to the employee.
“President Obama used his health care plan to declare war on religion, forcing religious institutions to go against their faith,” said the narrator in a Romney campaign ad in August. “Mitt Romney believes that’s wrong.”
The Romney campaign also currently has a robocall that warns Christians that Obama is a “threat to our religious freedom.”
The fact that a small and much maligned community such as atheists get accused of being crybabies while the most powerful politicians don’t get laughed out of the room for this kind of whining is itself evidence of the strong cultural bias in favor of religion.
