Isn't this how the Spanish Inquisition began?

From Talk to Action:

Cureton is vice president for church ministries for the Family Research Council. During the FRC's recent "Values Voter Summit," he warned attendees at a breakout session on churches and politics to be ready for some intense action.

"The battle that we're fighting," he said, "is not just a political and cultural battle, it's a spiritual battle."

And when a battle is spiritual, you can be sure that some people are serving the wrong side.

"When you think about it, you know, the real enemy is not the poor, deluded souls who are advancing these evil agendas," Cureton said. "Really, they're just simply pawns in the hands of their malevolent master. They're simply doing the bidding of the devil, OK?"

But Cureton, a Southern Baptist pastor and former denominational official, wasn't done there. Imploring right-wing evangelicals to politicize their churches and blanket them with "voter guides" (documents that are always stacked to favor the most right-wing candidate), he insisted that the last thing you want to do is turn out the vote across the board. Only the people who agree with the Religious Right should be targeted on Election Day, he said.

"We're not just encouraging people to vote however," Cureton said. "That's what happened in the last election. That's how Obama got elected - a bunch of stupid evangelicals who didn't even use their biblical values when they went in the voting booth."

It is always important to remember that much of the energy fueling the engine that drives the Republican party forward is this fundamentalist religious fervor that believes the country is a Christian nation and despises all interlopers who they see as not puritanical enough.

Of course the truly ridiculous part is that many in the GOP are only Christians on the surface and continue to lie, whore, and cheat as much, and probably more, than the next guy,  However so long as they say the right things, bow their heads at the right times, and appear to stand for the right issues, they easily get the support of this crazed fundamentalist right wing network that accepts that they are superior to any candidate who refuses to jump through their religious hoops.

Even George Bush really only used the "Moral Majority" and their brethren to get into office.  But he did provide payback for their support by starting the Holy War they had lusted after for the last 170 years, and by putting Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court, but not nearly enough to appease the fanatical hunger of the Rapture Ready crowd.

But now the fundies have learned their lessons to some degree and are starting to demand their own "loyalty oath."  And if THAT ever becomes the norm in the Republican party all of us still living in the reality based world had better start to fight back in a big way because there is no telling how much more damage these wingnuts could do if their Representatives really believed some of the bullshit they have been spouting all of these years.