You seem to be claiming that the Democratic Party is not largely Christian today, which would be quite a feat considering that slightly over 70% of the nation is still Christian. What's different about Christians within the Democratic Party versus Christians in the Republican Party is that the Democratic Party Christians don't seem to show approval only to candidates who give lip service to religious ideals.
Secularism isn't something that excludes the religious. It just means you don't allow religion to pervade areas where it's not appropriate, like politics and polite dinner conversations.
Of course, over the last thirty years the Democratic Party has been swinging to the Right to try to keep up with the conservative trend of the nation. Currently we seem to be swinging back toward more liberal thinking, although we'll see how long it takes the Democratic Party leadership to notice.
The Democratic Party certainly isn't swinging as fast to the left as it was in the '60s and '70s, but I don't know that I would categorize that slowing as "swinging to the Right".
You seem to be claiming that the Democratic Party is not largely Christian today, which would be quite a feat considering that slightly over 70% of the nation is still Christian. What's different about Christians within the Democratic Party versus Christians in the Republican Party is that the Democratic Party Christians don't seem to show approval only to candidates who give lip service to religious ideals.
Secularism isn't something that excludes the religious. It just means you don't allow religion to pervade areas where it's not appropriate, like politics and polite dinner conversations.
Of course, over the last thirty years the Democratic Party has been swinging to the Right to try to keep up with the conservative trend of the nation. Currently we seem to be swinging back toward more liberal thinking, although we'll see how long it takes the Democratic Party leadership to notice.
The Democratic Party isn't "largely Christian" today.
The Democratic Party certainly isn't swinging as fast to the left as it was in the '60s and '70s, but I don't know that I would categorize that slowing as "swinging to the Right".