Posted on 08/03/2006 10:09:11 PM PDT by Coleus
The religious right, which helped re-elect President Bush in 2004 by rallying opposition to abortion and gay marriage, is now facing a pushback from the religious left. With a faith-based agenda of their own, liberal and progressive clergy from various denominations are lobbying lawmakers, holding rallies and publicizing their positions. They want to end the Iraq war, ease global warming, combat poverty, raise the minimum wage, revamp immigration laws, and prevent "immoral" cuts in federal social programs. Some, like the Rev. Robin Meyers of the United Church of Christ in Oklahoma, marry gay couples and seek to reduce abortions while rejecting calls by the right to outlaw them.
"I join the ranks of those who are angry because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are anything but Christian," declared Meyers, who has written a new book, "Why the Christian Right is Wrong. According to scholars, the religious left has become its most active since the 1960s when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other clergy -- black and white -- were key figures in the civil-rights and anti-Vietnam war movements.
INFLUENCING ELECTIONS?
While the religious right is still more powerful, the left is setting its sights on this year's congressional elections and the 2008 White House contest. Rising Democratic star Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois said it is imperative for his party that fellow Democrats seek to counter the influence of the religious right. Continued...
Dude, there ain't no religious left, just a couple of commies calling themselves "reverend".
Religious left? Oxymoron.
Oh, they're religious all right. It's just that their religion isn't Christianity, it's liberalism.
Oh, they're religious all right. It's just that their religion isn't Christianity, it's liberalism.
...and the winner of the Angie Debo Civil Libertarian of the Year Award from the ACLU.... and he is a regular columnist for The Oklahoma Gazette , where he holds the record for most angry letters to the editor.
http://www.mayflowerucc.org/staff/meyers.html
Reading the article, one may get impression as if these 'religious left' just got enlightened recently so in the upcoming election they will vote Liberal Democrats. The fact is, except perhaps one or two recent converts, they have been active in liberal politics (inside and outside the churches). So if they couldn't mobilize in 2002 or 2004, what makes them think it will be different this time around?
I always knew they worshipped Karl Marx. Now they've just made it official.
God in 3 persons, Legislator, Executive, and Judicial. One family under Nannystate. With taxes and mandates for all.
Religoius left, LMAO!!!
Rueters is crazier than usual coming out with such a stupid story.
Baby murdering "religious" lefties aren't any sort of Christian. Maybe Rueters means the Islamic religious left. They murder babies.
That makes sence since the left is always supporting terorists. Murdering babies is within acceptable perameters in that religion; baby shields, Saddam baby parades, baby Jihad bombers. It must be what Rueters means.
Religious Left, don't know whether you've noticed it, but people are leaving your "churches" by the hundreds of thousands.
Mark Steyn has pointed out that MSM bias is actually a good thing, because it helps keep the left dozing in fantasyland as they sleepwalk off the cliff, arm in arm with their media wing. I put this recent "religious left" storyline in that category.
Would you kneel down and bend over in a United Church?
It's astounding that this "church" has the nerve to call churches that abide by the Lord's commandments as "fundamentalists".
These sodomites seem to think that the Lord's word does not apply to them, or can be ignored in order to accomodate their sin and desires.
Religious left. That's that handful of Presbyterian and Episcopal churches still not converted into bed and breadfasts, right?
Fails to mention the fact that Dr. King was pro-life. Might not fit with the pro-death thesis of this article.
Otherwise known as the Gospel According to Marx?
cool!
Franklin Graham, Dr. Ravi Zacharias, Dr. Tony Evans, Joyce Meyer, Promise Keepers 1998 "Stand in the Gap" rally
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"Religious" Left:
Bishop and Lesbian Activist Katharine Jefferts Schori, More Homosexuals Pretenders, Bishop Gen Robinson (who lives with his homosexual lover), Rev John Spong (who admitted he is an atheist!), Wiccan Priestess and Hillary Rodham supporter Cynthia Simpson, More of the same....
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