Q&A: Religious Leader Chuck Colson

TIME ^ | 24 September 2009 | Amy Sullivan

[underthestreetlite]

Chuck Colson has spent a lifetime atoning for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up. The founder of Prison Fellowship has spent more than three decades working with prisoners in more than 100 countries, and he has mentored generations of conservative Evangelical leaders. This month he launched the Chuck Colson Center, an online research and education center that he calls "the Lexis-Nexis of resources on the Christian worldview." The last of the original religious-right leaders still actively engaged with the movement, Colson spoke with TIME about his latest endeavor, why he thinks churches have failed society and the biggest mistake the religious right made.

[traditional1]

Ohio is a blue state, due to Unions, inner-city 'hood types, Secretary of State Brunner, and lots of AARP folks.

I doubt a Republican Senator can come out of Ohio for the next 10 years or so....too many feeding at the Federal Government trough.....

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

TIME:

Christians aren't divided by political parties today, and yet there is definitely division. It's not unusual to run across liberals who say there's no way Jesus would ever be a Republican, or conservatives who preach that it's not possible to be both a good Christian and a Democrat.

Colsen:

That's dreadful. It's so much bigger than politics. Jesus would have seen the Republican and Democratic parties like the money changers in the temple. They just didn't get it. Now, I'm going to vote for a pro-life candidate if given the choice. But that has nothing to do with partisanship. Democrats do a lot of very good things that we should be supporting. And I say that as a conservative.

Perhaps, Chuck - but it just seems that the Democrats get so many big things so badly wrong that it is scarcely worth the trouble sorting the wheat from the chaff.