Religion Effects On Presidential Elections

Religion and the effects it has on political Voting.

Alexander E

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Hilbrants

Solano Commuinity College

11/27/14

Abstract:

Alexander Hilbrants studies the ideas of religion and politics, and how politics and civil religion affect religious sensitive materials including same sex marriage and abortion.

The Presidential elections are a hot topic, throughout the election year, and more often than not after the Presidential election occurs. This is a very hot topic because, although what a president does in there time as an elected official is important, it also plays a key role on which party will lead the executive branch of the government. This branch of the government led by the president, can veto the judicial or the legislative

As although there are factors in the 2000 and 2008 elections regarding religion, religion seems to become a key factor in re-election. For Bush, this was quite possibly the faith-based initiative, as well as his specific and strong standing ideals. We also see that Obama during his Re-election had strong standing ideal's for pro-choice, as well as strong standing ideals, that marriage was a state matter, and that matrimony was a religious matter. Both of their ideals ma not ave been what the people wanted, but it did however tell the people that they knew what they

In Morford's The Election: Theories and Lamentations (2004), said “Moreover, 21 percent of voters said that "moral values" -- more than either Iraq or the economy -- were what determined their vote.”. Although the paper mentions moral values as playing a key role in the election, it seems like the fact that the elected president held a strong ideal's against gay marriage. Bush ran a very strong campaign against gay marriage, as mentioned in Machacek's article The Courts and Public Discourse: The Case of Gay Marriage (2004), “ he was arguing for the sovereignty of a "moral tradition that defines marriage" in American public life, a moral tradition arising from Protestant Christianity, rather than one arising from the Constitution.”, which to me says bush has theological ideals, however he did win the elections, and his ideals were not quite agreeing with the country. I think this, because after Bush's final year, we had Barack Obama who was almost a polar opposite of Bush. Bush constantly was against same gender marriage, and it was shown quite thoroughly throughout the re-election years, in fact right before his re-election in 2004, Bush called for a ban of gay-marriage, stating "The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith," in one of his many interesting to