America's moderate and progressive evangelists, outgunned for years by the mighty "religious right," are demanding their own share of the political action.
Their mantra, in a building campaign against conservative Christians, a key constituency of
President George W. Bush, is: "Since when was God pro-war, and pro-rich?
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Christians opposed to Bush, the most overtly religious president of modern times, say his war in
Iraq, and tax cuts which they claim favor the rich, do not square with a faith which teaches followers to love their neighbor.
"We can no longer stand by and watch people speak hatred, division, war and greed in the name of our faith," said Patrick Mrotek, founder of the new Christian Alliance for Progress. "We must reclaim our faith."
Well, Mr. Mrotek is getting the right idea, focusing on pointing out the main talking points of the republican platform and doing it in context.
...activists like Wallis, who heads the Sojourners national faith-based group, see a huge silent majority that could benefit Democrats in future elections.
"If Democrats just talk policy and don't talk about moral issues, they are going to keep on losing," warned Wallis, whose book "God's Politics" camped out in The New York Times bestseller list for 16 weeks.
Amen to that sentiment...big time. The here's vulgar pigboy (soon to perhaps be Prisoner #RL696969?)
"The religious left in this country hates and despises the God of Christianity and Catholicism and whatever else," the high priest of conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, said on his show April 27. "They despise it because they fear it and it's a threat, because that God has moral absolutes, that God has right and wrong, that God doesn't deal in nuance."
I wonder is he can spend some time talking over the finer points of theological nuance while he's locked up with Prisoner #KR666, the prisoner formerly known as Karl Rove. Might be an interesting conversation, n'cest pas?
