Progressive Evangelicals
A politics/religion blog I like to read is The God Vote, an On Faith/Georgetown blog by Jacques Berlinerblau, professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University. Here's a little bit from his latest post, How McCain Far-Righted the Ship ....
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Now that Wasilla Bible Church member Sarah Palin has joined the McCain ticket, Barack Obama suddenly has an "Evangelical Concern" on his hands .....
"She Has Energized the Evangelical Base": She sure has. You show me a candidate that views the Bible as the literal word of God, wants creationism taught in public schools, assiduously opposes abortion rights, and hunts Moose as if she had the words of Genesis 1:26 tattooed on her forearm, and I'll show you a candidate that re-activates the White Conservative Evangelicals that Senator McCain virtually put to sleep ......
Notice that in her philippic on Wednesday night Palin only had to mention the word "cling" to set the Red State folks off into a frenzy. Obama's remark about working class Americans clinging to guns and religion--made off-the record, Governor Palin helpfully pointed out--will surely pay more dividends for the McCain team in coming weeks ......
What About the "Fence-sitting," "Swing" or "Progressive" Evangelicals?: Friends, this has been, and continues to be, one of the most important questions in this campaign. Let me restate something that I have mentioned at least a hundred times before: the Democrats don't have to win the Evangelical vote. Rather, they have to siphon off about 7 to 10 percent more of it in battleground states than they did in 2004. If they do that, they "win" the Evangelical vote (and probably the White House) ...... The Democrat's "URGENT TO-DO" list now includes re-energizing the Progressive Evangelicals .....
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Now that Wasilla Bible Church member Sarah Palin has joined the McCain ticket, Barack Obama suddenly has an "Evangelical Concern" on his hands .....
"She Has Energized the Evangelical Base": She sure has. You show me a candidate that views the Bible as the literal word of God, wants creationism taught in public schools, assiduously opposes abortion rights, and hunts Moose as if she had the words of Genesis 1:26 tattooed on her forearm, and I'll show you a candidate that re-activates the White Conservative Evangelicals that Senator McCain virtually put to sleep ......
Notice that in her philippic on Wednesday night Palin only had to mention the word "cling" to set the Red State folks off into a frenzy. Obama's remark about working class Americans clinging to guns and religion--made off-the record, Governor Palin helpfully pointed out--will surely pay more dividends for the McCain team in coming weeks ......
What About the "Fence-sitting," "Swing" or "Progressive" Evangelicals?: Friends, this has been, and continues to be, one of the most important questions in this campaign. Let me restate something that I have mentioned at least a hundred times before: the Democrats don't have to win the Evangelical vote. Rather, they have to siphon off about 7 to 10 percent more of it in battleground states than they did in 2004. If they do that, they "win" the Evangelical vote (and probably the White House) ...... The Democrat's "URGENT TO-DO" list now includes re-energizing the Progressive Evangelicals .....
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