Anti-woman rape apologists losing in the most conservative of the states. Popular votes in favor in equality for gay people, for the first time ever, not in just one state, but four. Black guy favoring equality for gays and access to birth control (even if, gasp! your employer doesn’t like it) reelected comfortably.
It is difficult to overstate the defeat the American Taliban have suffered at the hands of the voters. And nutcases such as Albert Mohler, the head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (sometimes referred to as “evangelicals’ pope”) cannot hide their frustration at the fact that Obama didn’t pay a price for embracing justice over ideology:
Before the election, many evangelical leaders predicted that opposition to Obama over his support for abortion rights, his personal endorsement of same-sex marriage and his vision of government as a force for good would trump reservations evangelicals had about Romney’s past social liberalism and his Mormon faith.
“There is no evidence in voting patterns that President Obama’s ‘evolution’ on same-sex marriage cost him anything,” Mohler said in another tweet Tuesday night.
Obama is that first ever sitting US president to endorse equality for gay people openly. That, plus the fact that he refused to turn his administration into an arm of the catholic church denying coverage for birth control to their employees, earned him the fury of the religious right, and the opposition opportunistically pandered to them trying to take advantage of this. They returned the favor throwing their support behind them, violating the law in the process. Too bad it didn’t help:
Ralph Reed, the leader of conservative group the Faith & Freedom Coalition, planned a Wednesday morning press conference to release his data about what he called the enduring influence of “values voters.”
“Preliminary evidence is they turned out and they voted heavily for Romney,” Reed said in an e-mail message Tuesday night.
Losers.
