>>Richard Land, head of public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention, may want to checkout the details leading to the Giuliani divorce, which were reported in excruciating detail in NYC print and broadcast media.<<
I think Richard Land is taking the right approach. Guiliani is not the right guy but in depth trashing of his personal life is not that way to approach that. Guiliani's policies don't match. That's enough.
Dr. Land's famous quote "Jesus would never use a derogatory term to refer to a human being" is wise. The wisdom he shows by working with Catholics and other Christians while also joining the Chicago declaration reminding us that inter-faith cooperation does not prevent the expression of religious freedom through evangelism shows his understanding and balance.
Dr. Land has also screwed up in the past and hopefully learned from that - he attacked the Walt Disney company and urged a boycott over "gay days" and then it came out that Disney did not start, endorse or approve of gay days - anybody can come to Disney World and declare it any kind of day they want.
In short, I think Dr. Land hit the right tone here and no deeper personal attacks are warranted or wise.
Conservatives need to work on finding the right guy to best represent conservative principles rather than dissipating energy attacking the others.
As a purely tactical matter, Ronald Reagan's approach "Thou shalt never speak ill of another Republican" has the advantage of not alienating the portion of the party whose guy doesn't get nominated - that a way, a conservative can not only get nominated but actually get elected.
Trashing Giuliani? Not at all. I beg to differ. We are not trashing Giuliani.
Sorry to say, you completely misread the recounting of Giuliani's personal life, leading to his divorce.
If the realtime recounting of Giuliani's personal life SOUNDS trashy......it's because Giuliani himself provided all the trashy details by leading a horrendously trashy personal life.
That's Giuliani's problem. Not ours.
He should have thought of the consequences before he made all those trashy life decisions.
Oh, please---don't tell me you actually believe the WD Company's statement on gay days?
Disney's is the classic CYA statement when the bottom line begins to sink.....to get park attendance up.
Another reason why ex-WD head Michael Eisner who hired numerous gays in top positions and who endorsed Gay Days at Disney was ousted.