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Bush is hostage to religious right, says top Republican

"One of the most respected figures in the Republican political establishment turned on his own party yesterday, accusing the leadership of falling hostage to the religious right. In an opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times, John Danforth, a former senator and US ambassador to the United Nations, writes: “Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of conservative Christians.” […] “I am and have always been pro-life,” he wrote. “But the only explanation for legislators comparing cells in a petri dish to babies in the womb is the extension of religious doctrine into statutory law.”