The face of the GOP: racist and Christianist.

Trent Lott, GOP Minority Whip-elect, posing with leaders of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC).

Putz, today:

It seems to me that a party's leadership is the face of the party as a whole.

Putz, on September 19, 2006:

In fact, there has been plenty of politics, and not all that much religion, out of the Bush Administration and the Republican Party over the past six years.

Oh, really?

"Sides are being chosen, and the future of man hangs in the balance! The enemies of virtue may be on the march, but they have not won, and if we put our trust in Christ, they never will ... It is for us then to do as our heroes have always done and put our faith in the perfect redeeming love of Jesus Christ." Tom DeLay at "War on Christmas" conference, March 2006

"Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills." DeLay, on causes of the Columbine High School massacre, 1999

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery," Santorum said in the interview. "You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does." At another point in the interview, Santorum said marriage is a bond between a man and a woman. "That's not to pick on homosexuality," he added. "It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be." Rick Santorum, 2003

''I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. ''You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes." President Bush in 2005, arguing that Intelligent Design should be taught in public schools

"Today I call upon the Congress to promptly pass, and to send to the states for ratification, an amendment to our Constitution defining and protecting marriage as a union of man and woman as husband and wife." President Bush, 2005

"It [homosexuality] is [a sin]....You should try to show them a way to deal with that problem, just like alcohol...or sex addiction...or kleptomaniacs." Trent Lott, 1998

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either," Trent Lott on Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrat candiacy in 1948