Check it out…

Make sure to read Katha Pollitt’s Earthly Rewards for the Christian Voter, which outlines how Bush has been paying back the Christian Right for the past four years, and what we might lose in the next four years as he continues to appease his base.
Just a (scary) few examples:
The fact is, anyone who thinks the GOP is stiffing its “moral values” backers hasn’t been paying attention: George Bush, for one, has been paying them back for the past four years. He’s promoted a raft of anti-choice legislation–including the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act and a law making it easier for health professionals to deny women abortions and even birth control for “reasons of conscience.” He’s packed the federal bench with antichoice reactionaries, and he’s seeded the federal bureaucracy and the government’s international agencies with hard-line social conservatives like the faith-healing Dr. W. David Hager of the FDA reproductive health panel.

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