Everybody should have a right to have input, if their views prevail that's one thing. Party elders like Sen. Dole realize the Religious Right has enough voters to win Republican primaries, but an ultra-moralist platform doesn't win general elections. There is a strong belief in this country, a faith that America will never be ready for politics and policy to be universally dictated by religious fundamentalists. Yet, the zealots shall wait. The Grand Old Party is feverish with religion, and if Bible thumpers don't win this fall, there's Campaign 2000.
Patience is a political virtue.