They Eat Their Own (and Babies, Too)

So, apparently, the anti-abortion movement is splintering in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision on partial birth abortion, targeting Focus on the Family's James Dobson for using their cause to raise millions of dollars in an anti-abortion industry.

Of course, he has basically been a Republican party apparatchik embedded in the evangelical religious sector and trying desperately to keep their reliable grassroots aligned with Republican Party goals. That's why even though evangelical leaders professed to be moved by God to take up the cause of "creation care" -- being environmentally responsible for this and future generations -- Dobson fought hard to strike environmental concerns like global warming from evangelical agendas. The evangelicals saw through his craven politics and rejected his influence then, too.

There has long been a potentially significant divide between evangelicals and the GOP (in part because there has long been a potentially significant divide between self-styled evangelical leaders and many of the individuals who attend evangelical and fundamentalist churches). The global warming and environmental issues were the logical first sign, because the GOP's resistance stems not from its cultural agenda but from its corporate-driven agenda. But it is quite surprising to see the cracks appear in the abortion issue.