Professor Robert P. George
Posted on 12/21/2009 2:36:31 AM PST by iowamark
On a September afternoon, about 60 prominent Christians assembled in the library of the Metropolitan Club on the east side of Central Park. It was a gathering of unusual diversity and power. Many in attendance were conservative evangelicals like the born-again Watergate felon Chuck Colson, who helped initiate the meeting. Metropolitan Jonah, the primate of the Orthodox Church in America, was there as well. And so were more than half a dozen of this country’s most influential Roman Catholic bishops...
At the center of the event was Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence and a Roman Catholic who is this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker...
George convened the meeting with a note of thanks and a reminder of its purpose. Alarmed at the liberal takeover of Washington and an apparent leadership vacuum among the Christian right, the group had come together to warn the country’s secular powers that the culture wars had not ended. As a starting point, George had drafted a 4,700-word manifesto that promised resistance to the point of civil disobedience against any legislation that might implicate their churches or charities in abortion, embryo-destructive research or same-sex marriage....
George instead is plunging deeper into partisan politics. Alarmed at signs that the Republican Party was moving away from cultural issues, he recently founded a new group called the American Principles Project, which aims to build a grass-roots movement around his ideas. “His new venture will make him a major political player,” the conservative writer Fred Barnes predicted in The Weekly Standard. Among the group’s first endeavors has been to call for the ouster of Kevin Jennings, an Obama education official who previously founded the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Never heard of him.
First Things (q. google) often has articles by him. He’s pretty good. He is NOT always easy.
mark
Google = 42,000,000 hits.
I must live in a parallel universe.
Perhaps. I did not recognize the name either. But, I do not read “First Things” on a regular basis. There is so much - too much - to be familiar with even a tiny fraction.
I am encouraged to see Christians with brains coming together. Seems that some have had their lights clink on.
Finally.
First page looks like an excellent read. Thanks for posting it.
A snip
“The true great goods of marriage — the unitive and the procreative goods — are inextricably bound together such that the complementarity of husband and wife is of the very essence of marital communion,” the cardinal continued, ascending into philosophical abstractions surely lost on most in the room. “Sexual relations outside the marital bond are contrary not only to the will of God but to the good of man. Indeed, they are contrary to the will of God precisely because they are against the good of man.”
Now, I am not the smartest man in the world (in my own home for that matter) but, I can understand that. Is the writer saying that the gathered press cannot understand it?
Hmmmmm
“- - - he recently founded a new group called the American Principles Project”
The more we fragment, the more the Demonrats applaud.
Define your terms. I prefer to think of multiple hands grabbing different ropes to pull the ox out of the ditch.
I'll leave you to your Sarah Palin!
(Just joking, everybody....!)
“Define your terms.”
Picture the ballot in 2010: Democrat, Republican, Tea Party, American Principles Project.
That shows the Democrats united in one party, the Conservatives split up into three.
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