“Mitt Romney’s Evangelical Problem”
This is the one of the current “big three” that I would vote for in the general. Other two? Pound sand.
I am an evangelical.
-—This is the one of the current “big three” that I would vote for in the general. Other two? Pound sand.-—
Ditto!
I’m just wondering about what is the goal of evangelical political activism...is it to “bring back” a Christian nation, or is it just like any other interest group vying for political power. I wrote about this in my own blog in the context of Al Sharpton:
The inconsistency of many evangelicals really bugs me. Some seem fine with the GOP’s answer to John Kerry. More importantly, some would on one hand call themselves fighting for a Christian nation that treasures absolutism rather than relativism, but on the other hand support for the highest office a man who is a member of what most evangelicals would consider a cult. If there were no other choices, I could see why an evangelical would support Romney, but there are plenty.
I am also an evangelical, and so I take a lot of this stuff to heart. If evangelicals support Romney, we cannot claim to hold absolute moral values, we cannot possibly desire a Christian nation, and we demonstrate that all we want is power, just like everyone else.