Whether political or religious, when they have finished defining the issues, they feel free to do whatever they want to in implementing those issues- even if it involves the destruction of property or reputations, or, for some, the murder of a doctor who works in an abortion clinic. All who disagree even slightly are branded as unpatriotic, murderous, immoral, perverted, communistic heretical or loose on family values. They are not coming out of a love of righteousness or justice, nor do they exhibit compassion or justice, nor do they exhibit compassion or mercy. Demagogues know that frustration and fear are powerful emotions in society, and the Christian Right has developed an expertise touching those hot buttons that focus those frustrations on some external enemy. The existence of pent-up anger is as necessary to the Christian Right as the fear of racial integration is to those recruiting for the Ku Klux Klan.
All groups organized by what they are against carry the seeds of their own destruction.
If they run out of enemies, they have to find a new enemy or invent one, because without something to hate, they will lose their appeal. They are geared to criticism- not responsibility. Unfortunately, by the time they self-destruct, they have destroyed peoples and institutions, an irreparable loss. A much larger problem with the Christian Right is that its agenda is too short either to address the real issues of our society or to reflect the great breath of historic biblical faith. Much of the heat goes out of the Christian Right when it moves too far beyond its feelings about abortion and homosexuality.