Posted on 08/30/2006 8:56:33 PM PDT by Rawlings
When Democratic Party leaders "found God in the 2004 exit polls," as Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. likes to say, no one expected instant results. Many of the party's early efforts to attract religious voters, after all, were scattershot and not a little awkward. No one knew quite what the "faith staffer"—a new breed of legislative aide—was supposed to do, and random-seeming insertions of Bible verses into floor speeches came off as Tourette's syndrome for Democrats. In the longer run, though, the new focus on forming relationships with religious communities and voters has been the right move for a party that had essentially limited its religious outreach to black churches. Democratic campaign trainings now smartly include tips for communicating with Catholic voters. Candidates are starting to appear on religious radio outlets. And Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has even stopped saying things to intentionally antagonize evangelicals.
Which is why it is startling that in the two years since this Democratic revival began, the party's faith-friendly image has dimmed rather than improved. The Pew Research Center's annual poll on religion and politics, released last week, shows that while 85 percent of voters say religion is important to them, only 26 percent of Americans think the Democratic Party is "friendly" to religion. That's down from 40 percent in the summer of 2004 and 42 percent the year before that—in other words, a 16-point plunge over three years. The decline is especially troubling because it cuts across the political and religious spectra, encompassing liberals and conservatives, white and black evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Catholics, and Jews
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Typical rat behavior create a new payroll position, rather than attent church and bible study.
When their view of Biblical teaching is that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of a "lack of hospitality" rather than an overabundance of homosexuality this is to be expected.
To liberals, if the men of Sodom had only offered dinner and a movie first, the entire thing would never have happened.
Many Democrats have been deceived about being a Christian.
When I think of the scripture from the Holy Bible, "there is a way that seemeth right but, the end there of is destruction"
I think of the Democrat party.
There is no way you can support the ideology of the Democrat party and say you are a Christian.
Yes, I sometimes put in "Religious Left" as a keyword when I think it is appropriate.
There's a howler if I ever saw one!
I somehow managed to get myself on their email list and stay on just to see what ridiculous item they will come up with next. Their positions parrot the Democratic Party with no exceptions and there is almost NO reference to Christianity or the Bible excepting occasional statements about the poor and economic justice.
Sometimes I respond to the email (partly to see if they will throw me off their list. And I have gotten into exchanges with the "founder" of the organization (Rev. Timothy F. Simpson ). He consistently parrots the Liberal Democratic position.
I end almost every email with a statement like "I continue to point out that the Christian Alliance claims to base its position on Christian principles and there is not a single Christian principles in your statements." but he never responds to this.
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