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Thread ID: 20776 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-10-27
2005-10-27 13:24 | User Profile
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former Sen. John Danforth said Wednesday that the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the Republican Party and dividing the country.
Danforth, a Missouri Republican and an Episcopal priest, commented after meeting with students at the [B]Bill Clinton[/B] School of Public Service, a graduate branch of the University of Arkansas on the grounds of the Clinton presidential library.
"I think that the Republican Party fairly recently has been taken over by the Christian conservatives, by the Christian right," he said in an interview. "I don't think that this is a permanent condition, but I think this has happened, and that it's divisive for the country." He also said the evangelical Christian influence would be bad for the party in the long run.
Danforth, who recently served as ambassador to the [B][COLOR=#000000]United Nations[/COLOR][/B], made similar criticism of the party in an opinion article published by the New York Times in June. In that article, he called for religious moderates to take part in public life.
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2005-10-28 00:25 | User Profile
[quote=albion]LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former Sen. John Danforth said Wednesday that the political influence of evangelical Christians is hurting the Republican Party and dividing the country.
Danforth, a Missouri Republican and an Episcopal priest, commented after meeting with students at the [B]Bill Clinton[/B] School of Public Service, a graduate branch of the University of Arkansas on the grounds of the Clinton presidential library.
"I think that the Republican Party fairly recently has been taken over by the Christian conservatives, by the Christian right," he said in an interview. "I don't think that this is a permanent condition, but I think this has happened, and that it's divisive for the country." He also said the evangelical Christian influence would be bad for the party in the long run.
Danforth, who recently served as ambassador to the [B][COLOR=#000000]United Nations[/COLOR][/B], made similar criticism of the party in an opinion article published by the New York Times in June. In that article, he called for religious moderates to take part in public life.
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Hmmm, Christian Conservatives were not the ones who advised the NSC that Invading Iraq was in the national interest. They were busy working the Right to Life agenda.
So, he has never heard of a NeoConservative? Gee, I wonder how that happened.
AE
2005-10-28 08:34 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angeleyes]Hmmm, Christian Conservatives were not the ones who advised the NSC that Invading Iraq was in the national interest. They were busy working the Right to Life agenda. AE[/QUOTE]I think you're a little behind the eightball on this AE. How about people like Robertson who made statements like Iraq belongs in "greater Israel", or Hal Lindsey's ridiculous cartoons?
Its sad to see people like Robertson taking all the political credibility and capital they've worked to build up for Christian activists over the years and throwing it down dry holes like Iraq, but that's what they undoubtedy havedone. The lack of respect they get lately I think reflects this.