They didn't, so democracy will get its ass kicked next week according to a law that has as much bearing on our society as anti-dueling edicts passed during the Victorian era. Let's get something straight before we go any further with this. America is fundamentally a democracy. It is not a capitalist state at its core. It struggles to be, but it ain't.
Christian conservatism is another griddle of shit entirely.
The Christian Fundamentalist values that masquerade behind the Republican standard are an embarassment. I'm dumbfounded that a racist misogynistic paranoid ideology that has so long confused masculinity with control that it doesn't know how to give up one without the other can still survive today. Actually, it can't survive today, which is why it has to live off the table scraps of a movement based solely on personal greed. That said, let's take a moment to examine the politics of personal greed and the cult of false esteem. I quoted this figure on Tuesday, but it bears repeating.