This criticism is coming from a priest turned politician,who ran as a Republican and then was cover man for the Clinton's and the government in the Davidian massacre.
Also he was the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for four years while the oil for food scandal was in full swing, deciding to retire when it starts to break.
Now since he retired he hangs out at the Clinton library in Arkansas.
I don't think he's in any position to get in a rock throwing contest.
He's typical of the political and religious leaders who only wants the sheep that follow the sound of their voice, not Christ's sheep that follow the sound of His.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Agreed! And personally I shouldn't be but am shocked that a man with Danforth's background and opportunities can be so morally corrupt.
When the believers pulled out of the Whig party, that party vanished. Believers gave birth to the Republican Party, and it will vanish when they leave it.
Others have noted that it is not the evangelicals who are drumming Danforth out of the party. If the GOP has a big tent it is because we tolerate the Danforths. We find them embarrassing, but we tolerate them.
You do have to wonder why Danforth would take aim at the philosophical core of the Republican Party, and do so in a speech given at the Bill Clinton School of Public Service. That almost sounds like something from Scrapple; its impossible to believe that a Republican would accept an invitation to such an event, but they do; guys like Danforth and Bush Senior seem determined to give Clinton a legitimacy he will never have. Bush Junior has even gone to that well too many times.
And never doubt that when guys like this take aim at the "religious right" and the "hard right", they are aiming at all of us, the religious and the irreligious alike. If you are a constitutionalist, if you believe in limited government, if your political philosophy is liberty with a moral center, or morality rooted in liberty, to these guys you are the "hard religious right" even if you never darken the door of a church.
One last thing; you can call yourself a priest, you can display your certificate on the wall from Saint Acme Seminary, you can draw a salary for performing priestly duties, but you are only a priest if God says you're a priest.