Official chides Christian right Moral Majority called aberration

I hope Mr. Wenz will soon be an ex-top official. I am just hoping that his comments were taken out of context by the Glob. Otherwise, he sounds like a lib using these words and phrases: "healing ministries", "holistic understanding", "diverse in their concerns".

And to top it off, he thinks global warming is real and that Christians should get involved.

Maybe he should head up the Donkeys rather than Howard Dean.

...fatally flawed by a hubris that made the movement condescending and more than a bit judgmental.

This guy's been watching Jerry Falwell again.

Wenz spoke at the first of a series of courses that evangelicals... are holding in an effort to explain the influential religious movement to news reporters.

Explanation: These guys are sucking up to the media, making the same mistake that RINO's have made for years, trying to curry favor with the "opinion leaders" by moderating and self-criticizing. Bad idea.

Wenz lives in Washington D.C. That can have a serious impact on one's critical thinking. He is allied with the Baptist General Conference.

Yeah, that kind of figures, then.

Is this a branch of the National Council of Churches? Sounds like a chip off the old block.

......"PLO".....?

Isn't Wenz a good buddy and Jimmy carty kind of Evangelical in name Only

Just because a person claims to be an evangelical .. that doesn't mean they have their brain in gear.

This poor man is very deceived. Too bad.

The MAJORITY of Americans are MORAL. To say there is no such organization shows a disconnect with reality.

This BS is straight from the propaganda handbook of the left:

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Tactic: Describe your Opponent with 'Words of Weakness'
By Tom Ball
02/04/05

Use words that exude WEAKNESS to describe the opponent (regardless of their true behavior).

Do not use words that could be construed in the 'Strict Father' model of morality as strong. This refers specifically to many of the words that progressives use liberally in describing the opposition: Mean, heartless, insensitive, dictatorial, hateful, angry, evil, stubborn, harsh, etc.

Unfortunately, although the 'Nurturant Parent' perceives these words as describing a wholly unworthy person, those with the strict father morality activated perceive that same person described by those same words as tough, driven, no-nonsense, in control, and decisive -- in essence, a strict father. In such a case, the strict father's faults are overlooked in favor of his desirable strict father characteristics. Thus, we must instead use words that are degrading in the strict father model. Specifically, we must use words to describe them as weak, confused, and lacking control.

In both the progressive and conservative world views, weakness has no value. And, while progressives are tolerant of weakness -- striving even to help those who are most vulnerable, conservatives are unforgivably intolerant of weakness -- finding it immoral... even evil.

Therefore, if you truly wish to attack conservatives at their deepest level of meaning, then forget the sissy taunts of, "Oh, you're so mean," or "...so stubborn," or "...so evil!" Instead, label them WEAK and do it in a myriad ways. If a conservative person, or policy, or institution, etc. is effectively framed in this way, he/she/it will instantly lose credibility in conservative circles. It will essentially destroy the person's or thing's standing in the strict father model.

To the strict father, weakness is immoral -- something to abhor and punish. To be labeled as such is the ultimate insult to a conservative and one of the few things that really hits home.

So, when describing Bush, the GOP, and their policies, drop the adjectives you're most likely using now: mean-spirited, disingenuous, liars, evil, blah, blah, blah -- and step up to the truly effective descriptors -- the ones that rip into the heart of the strict father's core -- those that portray them as weak and lacking control.

Of course, I couldn't just leave you with a couple of suggestions, so here's a sampling of…oh, 175 or so useful words:

Coward, immoral, wishy-washy, whiny, sniveling, milquetoast, confused, valueless, unprincipled, obtuse, little, self-righteous, doormat, oversensitive, failure, weak, baby, fragile, gutless, spineless, craven, pusillanimous, faint-hearted, lilly-livered, nervous, timid, spiritless, sad, boneheaded, weak-willed, pathetic, feeble, frail, puny, scrawny, timorous, fearful, defenseless, weak-kneed, helpless, dependent, vulnerable, powerless, boneless, invertebrate, dismal, hopeless, wretched, sorry, meager, inadequate, small, paltry, insignificant, miserable, crying, tiny, petite, minor, negligible, inconsequential, trivial, unimportant, trifling, petty, juvenile, minute, wee, scared, frightened, shy, afraid, apprehensive, nervous-nelly, worried, edgy, panicky, paranoid, delicate, sickly, flimsy, slight, dull, cheerless, distressed, uncontrolled, bitter, depressing, gloomy, hysterical, delusional, impaired, oppressed, repressed, browbeaten, downtrodden, subordinated, broken, battered, injured, demoralized, exploited, conquered, loser, dominated, broken down, wreck, disappointment, overpowered, overwhelmed, trounced, dispirited, pessimistic, deflated, dejected, downcast, depraved, destitute, hapless, degenerate, indecisive, boring, namby-pamby, waffling, annoying, bawling, weeping, sobbing, dopey, baffled, bewildered, befuddled, dishonorable, shameful, disgraceful, sleazy, questionable, wimp, easily upset, thin-skinned, hypersensitive, disappointment, frustrated, castrated, cry-baby, mumbling, twit, worthless, ineffective, poor, laughable, ridiculous, absurd, mediocre, embarrassment, unimpressive, incompetent, incapable, defective, deficient, lacking, impoverished, wanting, undisciplined, unfortunate, awkward, tongue-tied, babbling, inept, clumsy, speechless, flailing, humiliated, disgraced, debased

See Also: "Every Word Matters: Using 'Keywords' as a Political Tactic"
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001126.php