Yep. That's because the Christian leaders have spent those decades convincing the Republican puppets that if they'd do the hardcore Christians' bidding, those leaders would deliver millions of votes by equating "Republicanism = Christianity." I was once at lunch at a local restaurant and in the next booth was a local minister eating with a couple of higher-ups in his church system, and he was bragging that he could tell his congregation to do anything and they would, happily, so long as he told them it was what Jesus ordered.