Alistair Burt, MP for North East Bedfordshire, Assistant Chief Whip and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, suggests that Conservatives and Christians in the UK should welcome a loosening of ties between American Evangelicals and the Republican Party.
"There is very good reason to believe that in the coming years, Americans' religious communities will no longer be seen as the natural allies of political conservatism." - E J Dionne, ‘Souled Out’ 2008
American politics seems all about ‘Obamentum’, and Hillary’s comeback as the Democratic world rocks in a ferment of excitement about the Illinois’s Senator’s audacious bid to topple Hillary Clinton and be the voice of America’s tomorrow.
But on the other side of the divide, an equally interesting, if less dramatic change may be taking place. John McCain has won the Republican nomination, to the intense anger of some conservatives, who do not believe that he is ‘one of us’. Liberal attitudes, in US terms, to abortion, civil partnerships and illegal immigration, have not impressed those who booed him at the Conservative Political Action Conference a few weeks ago.
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