One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good.

That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

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