Or at least Jim Wallis of Sojourners magazine says so. He was interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show the other day and declared that...
"The dominance of the religious right over our politics is finally finished".
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He was also plugging his new book, The Great Awakening, but that was the takeaway quote. I really really hope it turns out to be true.
I am ashamed to admit that I don't watch The Daily Show every evening. I wish I could but Una and I chose not to have cable - it's expensive and we hardly ever watch TV since the internet is so much more interesting. So I heard about this from Revolution in Jesusland, an great blog by a liberal guy who writes about a great awakening among religious conservatives that will hopefully bring some fresh change to our culture and politics.