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Founder of Relevant Magazine Cameron Strang has received more than 3,000 every day since he backed out of giving the benediction at the Democratic National Convention. He's still standing, though, and gave a brief address at the faith caucus today.
Tell me about the reaction you've been getting.
Since your story got out, and I had to respond to your story on my blog, things hit the fan. You did a story and then the AP, CNN, Fox News and other places have inquired. The message that I've tried to explain is that there are areas of correctness and incorrectness with both parties.
My potential involvement with the DNC this week was simply as an opportunity to build bridges and emphasizes areas of agreement, build on common ground. I thought my involvement in praying would be perceived on national television as an unequivocal endorsement and it just gave me pause so I backed out.
Since then, the extreme right wing, the fact that I have the audacity of saying that some Democrats might have it right in some areas, or that I'm not sure who I'm going to vote for yet, that automatically means to the extreme right wing that I am going to hell. And they have no hesitation of telling me so, or sending me pictures of aborted babies.
The extreme left wing says I'm everything wrong with Christianity, that I'm a coward. Everybody's entitled to their opinions. I'm just trying to navigate these waters, unchartered territories the best way I know how and that's to talk about my convictions.
What about the reaction from the campaign, are they upset?
Their job is to promote that their candidate is the right candidate, so if somebody has hesitation in making the same declaration, … obviously, they're not thrilled, nor would the RNC be thrilled about a similar declaration. I understand where they're coming from, and that was not my intention to make them look bad. I've talked about the positive and proactive thing that the Obama campaign has done to emphasize agreement with young Christians. ...
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