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A thoughtful article; I'll spare you the quippy title
Topic Started: Mar 9 2008, 07:54 AM (65 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
See: http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20080324&s=moser

It's a very nice (though lengthy) article on the change of trend in evangelical Christian politics. The quippy title doesn't quite do the full article justice.

(Hat tip to Daniel for posting it on WTF.)
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QuirtEvans
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Very interesting.

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When the most popular magazine for young evangelicals, Relevant, asked readers recently to characterize their "political views on social issues (healthcare, poverty)," the largest portion, 44 percent, called themselves "liberal." Asked, "Who do you think was a better president?" 55 percent picked Clinton over Bush. Asked the most crucial question of all, "Who would Jesus vote for?" the most popular answer was a Democrat, Barack Obama, at 29 percent.

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The trend away from slavish evangelical loyalty to the GOP clearly constitutes a gathering storm for the party; Republicans stand to lose not only millions of voters but also their "faith-based" edge in grassroots organizing and voter mobilization. Meanwhile, as Time magazine's "Nation" editor Amy Sullivan, author of The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap, has written, "this is a better moment for Democrats to pick up support from religious moderates"--a group that includes 40 percent of evangelicals--"than any other time in the past few decades. That's because evangelicals themselves are the ones who are broadening the faith agenda." This broadening is overdue, when you consider that 40 percent of Bush's evangelical voters in 2004 also considered themselves "liberals" on economic issues. Fewer than half--most of them over 45--say Dobson or Robertson speaks for them politically. In 2008, says Mark Pinsky, "Democrats can peel away 15 to 25 percent of white evangelicals, as Carter and Clinton did."

But in the long run, the direction of evangelical politics is about as clear as the Book of Revelation. Even when former religious-right leaders like Frank Schaeffer endorse Obama, as he did recently on The Huffington Post, they are hardly calling for a mass defection to the Democratic Party. "In 2000, we elected a president who claimed he believed God created the earth," Schaeffer wrote, echoing a widespread view, "and who, as president, put car manufacturers and oil companies' interests ahead of caring for that creation. We elected a prolife Republican Congress that did nothing to actually care for pregnant women and babies. And they took their sincere evangelical followers for granted, and played them for suckers."
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
Evangelicals are not going to migrate to a party which is a proponent for abortion, among other "sinful" planks contained in the Dem platform.

No matter what their age...
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Copper
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Jolly
Mar 9 2008, 11:04 AM
Evangelicals are not going to migrate to a party which is a proponent for abortion, among other "sinful" planks contained in the Dem platform.

No matter what their age...


The dems were hi-jacked by the extreme leftist kooks years ago.

Catholics, at least the JFK working-class Catholics, used to be solid democrats.

But you’re right as long as the dems insist on embracing the pro-death plank and avowing distaste for religious thought in general they will never go back.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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