Evangelical Group Trying to Shift Focus to Something More Important Than Keeping Gays from Marrying
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Written by jay
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Monday, 31 March 2008 01:39 |
A Washington D.C.-based Christian group called Sojourners/Call to Renewal is reaching out to a younger and somewhat more liberal-minded generation of evangelical voters in Ohio by staging a 3-day "justice revival" that stresses the Christian Right's roots in fighting for the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage. The event, which is scheduled for April 16 to April 18, is intended to appeal to younger Christians who may not be indefinitely tied to the Republican party and to shift the dialogue of evangelicals away from their core target issues of the last decade: abortion and gay marriage.
To wit, the group's leader, Jim Wallis, goes so far as to suggest that maybe, just maybe, Jesus would have prioritized a few more pressing concerns in today's world over the rights of dykes and fags to live in wedded bliss:
"A whole generation of young evangelicals
believes that Jesus would probably care more about the 30,000 children who died
again today - as they did yesterday and they will tomorrow - from preventable
disease than he would about passing a gay-marriage amendment in Ohio."
Fascinating concept! Wallis is also encouraging evangelicals not to be "in the pocket of one party" any longer and to make judgments at the polls based on their own, personal moral compasses.
We feel fairly certain that this guy represents, like, the San Francisco super-lefty contingent of the of the Christian Right, and that the majority of evangelicals are still going to vote for McCain no matter what, but who knows. Maybe the times they really are a-changin! (Again, we're way too cynical to believe this ourselves, but you go ahead if you like.)
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