Posted on 05/11/2007 5:02:16 PM PDT by doug from upland
Howard Dean: Democrats Should Reach Out To Young Evangelicals
May 11, 2007 6:28 a.m. EST
Christopher Rizo - AHN Staff Writer San Francisco, CA (AHN) - Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said Thursday that his party should welcome into the political fold young evangelical Christian voters who feel disenfranchised from the Grand Ole Party.
"We ought to reach out to those folks ... and not be afraid,'' Dean told an audience of about 125 at a DNC fundraiser Wednesday night, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Dean told the group gathered at the swank Palace Hotel that in the wake of the 2006 midterm election nearly 30 percent of evangelical Christians now see themselves as Democratic voters, up 10 percentage points from the previous election, the paper said.
Dean credited the increase to the party's organized outreach.
"We went out and advertised on Christian broadcast networks ... because in the evangelical movement, young people are changing America -- and they're changing the evangelical movement.''
He added: "People don't want to go to church anymore ... and come out feeling bad because they happen to know somebody who's gay. People want to go to church because they know what they can do about poverty, about Darfur, about the environment.''
During a June 2005 visit to San Francisco, the former Vermont governor and presidential candidate said that Republicans are "a monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party."
Oh, I almost forgot -— they are also the party of treason.
Is there such a thing as an evangelical atheist?
Yes, that is exactly what I want. NOT.
“People don’t want to go to church anymore ... and come out feeling bad because they happen to know somebody who’s gay. People want to go to church because they know what they can do about poverty, about Darfur, about the environment.’’
They just don’t get it at all.
People go to church to worship God.
howard dean is one of the most dangerous guys to come down the pike in a very long time.
I cannot believe what an idiot Dean is. Incredible. Oh my...
People want to go to church because they know what they can do about poverty, about Darfur, about the environment.
Oh my... I cannot believe what an idiot... Hey! Wait! I said that already.
Dear Howard Dean,
You’d better just stick to pandering to gang bangers, butt bangers, and drug bangers, ‘cause they are your natural constituencies!
EXACTLY!
Pastors like Rick Warren and the Olsteen guy give the left pleanty of stuff to work with!
But only until after the ‘08 elections........right?
Ya gotta understand Doug, Howard Dean wouldn’t know an Evangelical Christian if he trip over one in the street. Old Howard thinks an Evangelical is like being in the Rotory Club or the Audubon Society. The guy doesn’t have a clue !!!
Well, the big item in today's political news was a similar outreach to evangelicals by the leading candidate of another party I won't name.
Boy, do you have that right.
In other news, Dean also unveiled his new invention: the mesh umbrella.
>> Pastors like Rick Warren and the Olsteen guy give the left pleanty of stuff to work with!
Huh?
Rick Warren and Joel Osteen are as different as night and day.
I’m curious why you guys perceive Joel Osteen is a leftist.
Democrats Should Reach Out To Young Evangelicals — and recruit them to the homosexual lifestyle!
He gives me the creeps.
I thought he said to stay away from God Guns and Gays.
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