re: #178 cliffster

really? the GOP was in control of the house, senate, and white house for a good number of years, very recently. somehow, though - no national ban on homosexuality. weird.

The SoCon faction of the Republican Party had much less influence back then in comparison to the crop from today. A lot of this had to do with the conga-line of financial and sex scandals that they were subject to (Bakker, Roberts, Tilton, Swaggart, et al). It wasn’t until around 1990 that Pat Robertson started planting the seeds of government takeover with his “Christian Coalition” strategy of getting evangelicals involved in local and national politics.