New York Times: Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love
At a New York or Los Angeles cocktail party, few would dare make a pejorative comment about Barack Obama’s race or Hillary Clinton’s sex. Yet it would be easy to get away with deriding Mike Huckabee’s religious faith.
Liberals believe deeply in tolerance and over the last century have led the battles against prejudices of all kinds, but we have a blind spot about Christian evangelicals. They constitute one of the few minorities that, on the American coasts or university campuses, it remains fashionable to mock.
Scorning people for their faith is intrinsically repugnant, and in this case it also betrays a profound misunderstanding of how far evangelicals have moved over the last decade. Today, conservative Christian churches do superb work on poverty, AIDS, sex trafficking, climate change, prison abuses, malaria and genocide in Darfur.
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Look, I don’t agree with evangelicals on theology or on their typically conservative views on taxes, health care or Iraq. …
Hmmm… Seems to me about thirty years ago, I heard secular conservatives writing things like, "Look, I don't agree with evangelicals on theology or on their typically conservative views on abortion and family, but …." Welcome to Evangelicalism's exodus from captivity to the Religious Right as they run headlong into the captivity of the idealistic and populist Religious Left. Seems Evangelicals just can't resist a "revival" meeting," regardless of the actual consequences of the preacher's agenda. 🙂
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