Posted on 01/15/2009 2:38:09 PM PST by markomalley
A coalition of prominent evangelical leaders who've partnered with Third Way, a Washington think tank influential in shaping Democratic Party policy and messaging, is presenting policy recommendations to Barack Obama's transition team today that purport to offer a consensus approach to hot-button issues that have long divided evangelicals and liberals. More News
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The recommendations include a framework for reducing demand for abortion without further restricting abortion rights, through initiatives like grants for sex education that emphasizes abstinence but includes contraception, an expanded adoption tax credit, and a call for a federal prohibition on workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians, with an exemption for religious organizations.
"This is the first time that evangelicals have taken a gay equality position," says Rachel Laser, director of the culture Ppogram at Third Way.
The memo's drafters, including the Rev. Joel Hunter, a prominent Florida megachurch pastor, and the Rev. Sam Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, released the document—"Come Let Us Reason Together: A Governing Agenda to End the Culture Wars"—this morning, ahead of a meeting with religious outreach and policy aides on the Obama transition team.
"This is historic," says Rodriguez, who leads the largest evangelical Latino group in the United States and was a prominent supporter of Proposition 8, California's recently adopted gay-marriage ban. "Some of these people I'm in complete opposition to on the vast majority of public-policy ideas."
Besides its recommendations on abortion and gay rights, the memo presses Obama to officially ban U.S.-sponsored torture and to enact comprehensive immigration reform, with a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
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Is this going to happen before or after Obama discovers the cure for cancer?
Is this going to happen before or after Obama discovers the cure for cancer?
nail on the head
My ,mother in law is one of those JFK Dems
I asked her if she thinks illegals should get freebies
Does she think girls at school should get contraceptives without their parents knowing.
should abortion be legal.
should homo’s get married.
should we have to pay more tax for those who do not work
should we get teachers to learn different languages because these illegals cannot speak English
The answer to all of them is no
I told her that that they are republican views she agrees with but of course she will not vote republican as in her words
“I have voted democrat all my life and always will”
This is the sort of ignorance what we are up against and I think the GOP needs to push these views more openly instead of being scared of offending someone.
Sarah would do it I think but the likes or Arnie, Mccain etc will not
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