Reporting from CPAC, Sarah Posner on the religious right, the tea party movement, and their youth outreach:
Though some conservative strategists angle to marry the religious right and the tea party movement — or at least partially model the tea party movement after the Christian Coalition — at the American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, announcing an engagement party would be premature.
CPAC’s outreach effort to millenials, the anachronistically named XPAC, featured a seminar by Focus on the Family Action’s youth initiative Rising Voice, launched this week through the religious-right powerhouse’s advocacy arm. While some factions of the religious right, including Focus on the Family Action itself, appear anxious to combine their platform, opposition to abortion and LGBT rights, with the tea party movement’s core issue, antagonism toward “big government,” Rising Voice’s organizers seem to be going in a different direction.
