The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

Religion has been in and out of American politics for nearly our whole history. Right now the conservative religious message is more vocal.

I don't think McCain does that. He is only lightly attracted to the religious right, or not attracted, if you watch his shifting position on gay marriage.

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about
doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.

I have the right to object. We are more than pill counters or robots. We have religious and professional beliefs.