RELIGIOUS LEFT????
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Howard Dean are apparently leading the charge for Democrats to win the Evangelical vote.
My favorite line of the article
Mr. Dean, as famously reported during his 2004 presidential bid, switched from his Episcopal to a Congregationalist Church in a dispute over a bike trail.
Read the rest of the article here.
posted by mjm @ 7:48 PM
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Oh my...
Here are a few other interesting quotes from the article...
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"Like others at the Mr. Wallis event, Ms. Clinton warned against the seductive allure of the religious right. 'Don't let people get away with nice words,' she implored. 'Don't let them quote scripture to you.'"
"Likewise, Mr. Obama worried about religionists who make political arguments based exclusively on their faith rather than reason. 'This is difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as many Evangelicals do,' Mr. Obama said. 'To base our policy on such commitments would be dangerous.'"
"Supposedly quoting anti-Nazi martyr Diedrich Bonhoeffer, Ms. [Marian Wright] Edelman declared: 'You can judge a nation by its treatment of children.' (The actual quote from Bonhoeffer appears to have been: 'The moral test of a nation is how it educates its children.')"
"In her description of the 'Only Right Way to God Weasel,' Ms. Edelman claimed, without further explanation, that the Constitution has permitted religious conservatives to control American religion…'God sent the angel to Mary, Joseph, and Muhammad,' Ms. Edelman declared as a rebuttal to these religious exclusionists. 'We are all God's children.'"
[At least the editorial writer got the distinction correct..."Ms. Edelman did not explain how the Constitution should prohibit conservative Christians and others from making exclusive truth claims about their religion. Nor did she explain which schizophrenic 'angel' was visiting both the parents of Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad."]
"But Ms. Edelman was an appropriate icon for Jim Wallis' 'Pentecost 2006,' in which it is not the Holy Ghost but big government who visits the church of liberal religion, for which politics and not religious dogma are the most important guideposts."
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Wow!
In Christ
Noah
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