From Catholic Citizenship

Catholic World News : Religious commitment lead vote indicator, says study

I honestly don't know why this is news. Didn't the Pew Research come out sooner? Weren't exit polls from the November election the first signs of this trend? While its interesting that the poll question divides Christian believers into three effective catagories to determine this trend, I can't get past this question: Why Now?

As helpful as this is to know, it doesn't address the fundamental problem: where do we go from here?

I'm talking about the Republican party as the standard bearer for life. Certainly there better than the Democrats. But by how much? The cynic in the Fool wants to reasonably observe that the GOP has the prolifers as long as the '73 holecaust continues: where else can we go? 95-10 proposals by the Democrats for Life aside, The other party shows no signs of deviating from the safeguard of their Ultimate Sacrament. That leaves Fools with the party that Mark Shea has affectionately called "the stupid party."

It's not entirely undeserved. How did a political party that won the presidency by 8 million votes, that won both houses of Congress, several governorships and more suddenly find itself unable to move its agenda forward? Worse, how did it find itself behind the Democrats on getting the message out?

Where are the initiatives to ensure the Culture of Life?

For that matter, where are the thinkers and shakers that can demonstrate how market economic policies can meet Catholic Social Teaching concerns for solidarity with the poor? Life is the most important and urgent issue. It does not stand alone. So where are the Republicans on this?

Getting stuffed. By a party that celebrates abortion in both press conference word and tax subsidy deed. By a defeated party that has somehow succeeded in distorting the Republican's message and taking nearly half of the polled populace with it. By a party that supports secular messiahists that scream theocracy when Christians want the President's judicial nominees voted by the Senate. By that same party that's ready to take down the Republican majority leader in the House for ethics violations that their own members commit.

Glad to hear this news, but why now. Or even worse: does it matter?