[bondjamesbond]

This is Andrew Sullivan's problem, not mine.

Let's just get that put away from the very start.

[rhombus]

So let me suggest that we take back the word Christian while giving the religious right a new adjective: Christianist.

Ah yes, the usual desire to label someone.

[BikerGold]

must've skipped his medications...

[tcostell]

Personally I think it's dishonest of him to describe himself as a Christian. I believe he does it exclusively to be able to make political points and THAT is not what faith is about.

[mlc9852]

All that being said, we are all free to vote for any candidate in any party, so what is the problem?

[Tax-chick]

As long as you're breathing, Andrew, it's not too late to repent.

[keithtoo]

Andrew is a libidinist. He follows his little Andrew's directives.

[frogjerk]

There are lay Catholics who, while personally devout, are socially liberal on issues like contraception, gay rights, women's equality and a multi-faith society

Yes, there are many and they are called heretics.

[william clark]

In other words, the term "Christian" should be applied to anyone who thinks Jesus was a swell guy. Anyone more stringent than that is an extremist.

[bondjamesbond]

I find it amazing that some people seem to think a Christian's religion should not inform his political beliefs. It should not be a problem when some people take the meaning of "I knew you when you were in your mother's womb" and find that abortion is abhorrent. How can anybody expect them to do otherwise?

[Ikemeister]

I don't see how someone can be a Christian and a liberal at the same time.

[Mr. Brightside]

... snif, snif...

And I don't feel represented by the gay Episcopal Bishop Robinson.


Why can't we all get along?

[ClearCase_guy]

"We've become ... mumble mumble ... a theocracy ... mumble ... we're -- we're ... worse than ... mumble ... Iran. It's clear that ... Christinity is ... the most evil ... mumble ... thing ever ... mumble."

[/raving lunatic]

[A.Hun]

Andrew should try reading his Bible....I think belief in it is the foundation of being a Christian.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

While I essentially agree with the premise that Christianity shouldn't be associated with a particular political party or philosophy, the sad fact is most of the people who insist on this premise really mean that Christians should be liberals.

[frogjerk]

They have no problem living next to an atheist or a gay couple or a single mother or people whose views on the meaning of life are utterly alien to them--and respecting their neighbors' choices. That doesn't threaten their faith. Sometimes the contrast helps them understand their own faith better.

If my neighbor is hopping and skipping his/her way toward Hell, I am compelled by my faith to try and make them see the error of their ways in a compassionate way WITHOUT beating them over the head with my faith.

But sometimes you have to hit certain people between the eyes with a two-by-four to get their attention...

[r9etb]

Sullivan essentially makes two points:

First, "nice" Christians won't be offended by Andrew Sullivan's homosexuality.

Second, "nice" Christians have no idea what God really wants, and thus are never to be caught saying "no" to Andrew Sullivan's homosexuality.

It's a sad fact that Andrew Sullivan's rectum is the be-all and end-all of everything he writes.

[Theophilus]

Christianity, in this view, is simply a faith

Andy, the truth exists and the truth is exclusive: ...Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

[JamesP81]

This needs a Drivel Alert or something.

If Christians don't feel represented by the religious right, they wouldn't have all come out and voted for the religious right.

[RexBeach]

Right you are, JB. To paraphrase Vito Corleone: "Sullivan's a pimp."

[Elpasser]

So-called "liberal Christians" have created a new god in their own image. He/She is a socially hip, feminist, gay-friendly, politically correct deity.

My God is a holy God, who doesn't change with the whims and fashions of men.