Over the years, many people have proclaimed that the “Religious Right” is dead and gone.  Yet, time and time again, values voters show up at election polls to make sure that timeless values are protected.  Has the “Religious Right” died multiple times, only to “resurrect” itself again and again?

Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery set the record straight in a recent column: the “Religious Right” has never actually died.  While liberal columnists write obituaries about the social conservative movement, they forget that their liberal ancestors have been trying to do the same thing over the past 20 years.  Yet, there has been no solid evidence that there needs to be a funeral for the values voters.  In fact, a good argument could be made for the opposite in light of recent successes of voter-approved marriage amendments across the country.    

For World Net Daily, Minnery writes:

“In their haste to pronounce us dead, reporters routinely ignore the most profound grass-roots uprising of our era, the writing of marriage definitions into 30 state constitutions. That's 30 victories in all 30 states that have put this question to voters, and many of those victories have been landslides. This has been a continental phenomenon, from the Midwest, through the South, the Intermountain West, and the Left Coast states of Oregon and (shudder!) sophisticated California.”