I'm not picking on Christians either but during the last election we actually had a "Defense of Marriage" movement that was just a colossal joke. I know that not all Christians were behind this but it was certainly Christian based and aimed directly at Christians. As is the abortion issue.

Christians in this country have been horrifically used and abused by Republican leadership but many of them are incredibly blind to it. They never see that it's the Republicans that benefit from marginalizing and attempting to create hate toward Christians. That's what they need, what they count on, they want them to feel they are under attack, that what they value, their moral fabric is being destroyed.

I don't entirely agree with that, Reg.  I don't think that these views speak of all Christians. What the Bush admin has done (and the Republican Party has done since the reign of Ronald Reagan),  is to cater to a sector of American Christians who are part of the Christian Fundamentalist movement.  They certainly differ in philosophy and fervency from other non-Fundamentalist Christians, and are different in some ways from Evangelicals as well.  I think you are over-generalizing here. 

I'd recommend reading Jimmy Carter's book: Our Endangered Values, for a good discussion of the differences between the Christian groups.  I was pretty fuzzy in my understanding, but his simply worded book cleared a lot of that up for me.

Gene