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Evangelical Moderates

Are they becoming less conservative? Or are they just saying so?

Sarah Pulliam | posted 10/14/2008 03:30PM

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But several evangelicals who have been involved in politics in the past warn against disaffiliating from either party.

"It's almost 'in' these days to do that," said Gary Bauer, who ran for President in 2000. "But it means that when the party organization is trying to figure out what kind of platform it's going to have and what kind of people it's going to have run, we lose our ability to influence that very important grassroots activity."

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OpenEyes

Posted: October 28, 2008 11:30 AM

I stongly against abortion and gay marriage. But do not think that a president's job description should be confined by these two issues. It's like hiring a CEO for Microsoft to replace Gates and the job description is "pro-life and against gay-marriage." I've been involving in local votes to against bills that are pro-choice or pro-gay-marriage. But always wondering how many Evangelical Christians care about these issues enought to participating in these kind of votes locally, state by state. But when it comes to presidencial selection, Christians want a president who is pro-life to take care of the issue for themselves, and so they do not need to do anything else in 4 or 8 years; but the job description of a president is far more complex than Just pro-life and anti-gay-marriage. There are issues related to the US economy, the global economy, the US's political strength in a global stage competing with China, Russia and India...etc. These are also important issues to think about.

Joe	Posted: October 27, 2008 10:28 AM


To be true to the tune of this article, why do we have the label "evangelicals" or "Christians" because the terms are too "exclusive" and "single-issued". While we are on the same subject, I am not sure what "Christianity" (as in ChristianityToday) means to "Christians".

Dr Christian Chan

Posted: October 26, 2008 3:49 AM


The God of Israel with punish the American electorate and evagelicals for helping to elect a Black Nationalist Marxist as president! It proves even American evagelicals are motivated by GREED (money) not God & Country and will all be punished by God!

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