I have firsthand knowledge that Julian Phillips is not liberal. He has been very gracious to answer a couple of my emails lately, and he told me that since he is a born-again Christian, he is against abortion. He says that he gets tagged as a liberal because he doesn't walk in lock-step with President Bush on some issues. I was asking him about Kiran Chetry being pro-choice, and he confirmed that this is the case. But he says that pro-choicers like Kiran need our prayers to change their hearts and minds. He says that she is a very nice person, but that they simply don't agree on some things.
So, I am pleasantly surprised to find out that Julian is pro-life! I must admit that I didn't think that he was. He's a very nice man who bothers to take the time to reply to email.
I must issue a retraction of my claim that Julian Phillips said that Kiran Chetry was pro-choice. Upon further contact with him, he has strongly made the point that I misunderstood his comments about Chetry, as he says he does not know how Kiran feels about abortion. I think I interpreted his statements reasonably, but I guess that I took some rather unclear and murky sentences and pieced them all together when I should not have. Again, Julian does not know Kiran's views on abortion, and he says he is sorry if I was lead to believe otherwise.
I apologize for any problems or confusion caused by all of this. I need to be more careful about blurting things out, but I guess it's easy to do when you have a pre-conceived notion about a person. I always thought that Kiran was really liberal, and so that thought coupled with Julian's email convinced me outright that Kiran was one of the NARAL gals. I made a rush to judgement and it was wrong. I think that many of us thought of Julian as liberal, and he may be in many areas, but the fact that he is pro-life (and that is not in dispute) has made me see him in a different light. Again, my apologies.