Faith for Hire
I wanted to keep the posts positive for a day or two around Christmas, but this is just too much:
Hillary Clinton has hired an "evangelical consultant” to help woo Christian conservatives in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.
The move comes after a similar political operative successfully aided Democratic candidates in several states in the midterm elections.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you have to hire someone to try and convince voters that you're Christian, you ain't. Further down in the article, we read about Mara Vanderslice, who went to college at Earlham College right here in my town, a very, VERY liberal bunch of people.
Vanderslice herself didn’t become an evangelical Christian until she attended Earlham College, a Quaker school in Indiana known for its adherence to pacifism. She acknowledges that she still struggles with common evangelical ideas about abortion, homosexuality, and the literal reading of Scripture, according to the Times.
After college, Vanderslice spoke at rallies held by the AIDS activist group Act Up, which disrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989 by spitting the Eucharist on the floor. In 2000, she practiced civil disobedience when she took to the streets of Seattle in a protest against the World Trade Organization.
Excuse me, but calling yourself an evangelical Christian doesn't make you one, and she ain't one. She doesn't just "struggle" with the "evangelical" (that should read "Biblical") ideas about abortion, homosexuality, and the literal reading of Scripture...she rejects them. All you have to do is learn a little bit about her.
Looks to me like the Democrats are hiring fakes in order to make themselves seem genuine. How typical.
Hillary Clinton has hired an "evangelical consultant” to help woo Christian conservatives in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.
The move comes after a similar political operative successfully aided Democratic candidates in several states in the midterm elections.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you have to hire someone to try and convince voters that you're Christian, you ain't. Further down in the article, we read about Mara Vanderslice, who went to college at Earlham College right here in my town, a very, VERY liberal bunch of people.
Vanderslice herself didn’t become an evangelical Christian until she attended Earlham College, a Quaker school in Indiana known for its adherence to pacifism. She acknowledges that she still struggles with common evangelical ideas about abortion, homosexuality, and the literal reading of Scripture, according to the Times.
After college, Vanderslice spoke at rallies held by the AIDS activist group Act Up, which disrupted Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989 by spitting the Eucharist on the floor. In 2000, she practiced civil disobedience when she took to the streets of Seattle in a protest against the World Trade Organization.
Excuse me, but calling yourself an evangelical Christian doesn't make you one, and she ain't one. She doesn't just "struggle" with the "evangelical" (that should read "Biblical") ideas about abortion, homosexuality, and the literal reading of Scripture...she rejects them. All you have to do is learn a little bit about her.
Looks to me like the Democrats are hiring fakes in order to make themselves seem genuine. How typical.
posted by Jennifer at 12:45 PM
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