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(Leftist evangelical)Jim Wallis: 'I See Genuine Soul-Searching Among Democrats'
Christianity Today ^ | February 11, 2005 | Interview by Stan Guthrie

Posted on 02/11/2005 11:29:12 AM PST by The Loan Arranger

Evangelical activist says it's time to find common ground on abortion and other issues. Jim Wallis, convener of Call to Renewal, has been calling on Christians to see political involvement beyond the perennial issues of abortion and gay rights. Wallis, a registered Democrat, is an evangelical leader in the faith-based Left and a frequent critic of George W. Bush. His profile has been raised as national Democrats have started to talk to him about how they can better reach out to values voters in the wake of Republican victories on November 2. The Democratic National Committee is meeting today in Washington to plot strategy. Wallis's new book, God's Politics, is on the New York Times bestseller list. Wallis spoke with Stan Guthrie, CT's senior associate news editor.

It appears that [former governor of Vermont and failed presidential candidate] Howard Dean will be the new head of the DNC. Is he someone you can support, given his evident lack of familiarity with evangelical issues?

Well, I don't get involved in supporting candidates for the DNC, one way or the other. I work with whoever's there. I've got meetings [today] on the Hill with Democrats and Republicans, at their instigation. I'll go and talk to them. So, if Dean's there I'll work with him.

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1 posted on 02/11/2005 11:29:13 AM PST by The Loan Arranger
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To: The Loan Arranger

Some of them are gonna need electron microscopes


2 posted on 02/11/2005 11:29:40 AM PST by Darkwolf377 ("Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong."-Ronald Reagan)
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To: The Loan Arranger

Don't you have to HAVE a soul for this sort of thing?


3 posted on 02/11/2005 11:33:44 AM PST by Gingersnap
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To: The Loan Arranger
Evangelical activist says it's time to find common ground on abortion and other issues.

What common ground is there to find when one side seeks the destruction of every institution that is the foundation for this country, and the putative leader of that side hates the other side and everything it stands for?

4 posted on 02/11/2005 11:35:49 AM PST by stevem
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I see dead people....they're all around us......they don't know they are dead.......they are Democrats!


5 posted on 02/11/2005 11:37:01 AM PST by texan75010 (You lost - MoveOn...to France, or Canada, or New Zealand, or Germany...take your pick.)
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To: The Loan Arranger
Wallis, a registered Democrat, is an evangelical leader in the faith-based Left and a frequent critic of George W. Bush.

I have never heard of this clown, but I wonder what sort of evangelical he is? Just from reading this, maybe he is along the same lines as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

6 posted on 02/11/2005 11:41:06 AM PST by Mark17
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To: The Loan Arranger
faith-based Left

faith in what?

7 posted on 02/11/2005 11:42:56 AM PST by WoodstockCat (W2 !!! Four more Years!!)
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To: The Loan Arranger
Horse hockey. Jim Wallis is full of it. If there is genuine soul searching, then they ought to become Republicans. Zell gets a pass 'cause he's an old guy and retired.

The rest? Let 'em switch over.

8 posted on 02/11/2005 11:49:54 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: The Loan Arranger

And by the way, what's with CT giving a free megaphone to this guy? Do they put this guy to the test at all?


9 posted on 02/11/2005 11:50:44 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: The Loan Arranger

This guy has been around for 25 years at least. He is not spiritual he is just someone who uses religion to promote his leftist agenda. I grew up in a college church which was dominated by liberal professors. In Sunday School we were blamed for Vietnam, centuries of oppression, slavery and told that when we ate someone in India or wherever did not. They delivered a load of guilt big time, that caused a lot of people big problems. Political and religious views are products of culture. The liberal culture is atheistic or agnostic. And this is a religion for the same. It won't wash with others. If anything it will reinvigorate the religious right.


10 posted on 02/11/2005 11:54:43 AM PST by bilhosty
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To: The Loan Arranger
"'I See Genuine Soul-Searching Among Democrats'"

I saw a Democratic operative being interviewed this morning on that very question, and she replied that Democrats didn't need to change their policies or beliefs, only that they needed to be better organized in running their political campaigns.

So no, they still don't get it (much to our benefit).

11 posted on 02/11/2005 11:57:29 AM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: WoodstockCat
faith-based Left

faith in what?

"Spit Bawls!"

12 posted on 02/11/2005 11:58:16 AM PST by Stultis
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To: The Loan Arranger

Christian rat= oxymoron. Wasn't this guy a caller on C-SPAN this morning?


13 posted on 02/11/2005 12:24:07 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (In dealing with liberals remember When you wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and he loves it.)
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To: The Loan Arranger
Democrats don't have souls to search.

The United Nations is their "god", and Marxism is their "religion".

They are the enemy within, the fifth column working for every tyrant and ideology that seeks to lay America low and turn us into another Third World rathole.

Is treaon still a capital offense?

14 posted on 02/11/2005 4:55:50 PM PST by FierceDraka (The Democratic Party - Aiding and Abetting The Enemies of America Since 1968)
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To: The Loan Arranger

Never heard of the guy. "Faith-based left" is almost an oxymoron these days.


15 posted on 02/11/2005 4:58:59 PM PST by mombonn ( ¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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