Posted on 08/18/2009 6:21:11 AM PDT by steve-b
It's a long and ignominious list. First there was Newt Gingrich. Then came Larry Craig, Mark Foley, David Vitter, Chip Pickering and Vito Fossella. Now starring John Ensign and Mark Sanford.
Politically, sex scandals are equal-opportunity destroyers. For every David Vitter, there is an Eliot Spitzer. For every John Ensign there's a John Edwards. For every Bill Clinton there's... well, there's only one Slick Willie. But you get the point: Sexual scandal knows no party.
Yet, a common denominator linking many political sex scandals of the last few years is the involvement of conservative Christian politicians who, it seemed, had made sexual responsibility and marital fidelity cornerstones of their public and private lives. These figures reflect a broader reality: Many conservative Christians struggle to live up to the moral standards they espouse....
The Barna Group, a Christian polling firm, recently found that the divorce rate among evangelical Christians was 32 percent, statistically identical to the 33 percent figure among non-evangelical American adults.
In 2007, The State of Our Unions report by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University concluded that though red-staters are more likely to be religious and politically conservative, they also are more likely to divorce than those from blue states....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“are losing”???? Christians lost a long time ago. They abandoned the field many decades ago. They eagerly gave up their rights and responsibilities to government over the years. Only now are some thinking that maybe something is wrong....a little late.
Christians in America have fallen for the same tactic that the Christians in Germany fell for -
“separation of church and state”
Typical liberal pukeage.
I refuse to click the link and be nauseated any further.
Whenever you see such blatant and desperate efforts to link Christians Conservatives and low life toe-tappers....
Well, you know the rest of their arguments will be total garbage.
Look at the plummeting rate of support for abortion on demand and get back to me, RINO-boy.
LLS
Definitions are important. I suspect their definition of an Evangelical and mine would differ. In like manner - do any real Catholics support abortion?
I’ve seen surveys showing half of evangelicals don’t believe the Holy Spirit is God. That half isn’t evangelical - just dishonest in what they call themselves.
Catholic priests who want sex with little boys aren’t Catholic - they are tares amongst the wheat.
It seems like Christians have been loosing one thing or another for two thousand years. They are not the one’s in the war. The only question that has any importance has to do with God’s influence. That can not and will not be answered by a bunch of critics.
It seems like Christians have been loosing one thing or another for two thousand years. They are not the one’s in the war. The only question that has any importance has to do with God’s influence. That can not and will not be answered by a bunch of critics.
But then you don't think all that deeply, do you, Mr Libertine?
Since when do Christians claim to be WITHOUT Sin?
My atheist brother sent me a rant about Christians being involved in politics and he cited “separation of church and state”...poor guy, he received several emails from me and after the first one he had no replies because he knew he wasn’t going to win.
Christians will lose many battles before they win the war.
But they have to make the argument because as long as there are Christians, government cannot have absolute power.
I’m not sure you are on statistically solid ground with your objection to the comparison of Christian to non-Christian divorce rates.
That the populations in question are not similarly sized (although you did not document that), doesn’t diminish the value of the statistical correspondence between the 2 populations.
Wrong. Being an evangelical is ALL about what you believe, and who you believe in.
It also has a different start date than birth - so one friend of mine who divorced twice before becoming a Christian would be counted as a ‘twice-divorced evangelical’.
Being a Scot only involves where you were born.
Er, you need to work on your math background. The use of a “rate” (i.e. fraction of the total) instead of a raw total is precisely to avoid that problem.
Totally disagree. Conservatives never get away with it. Liberals almost always do.
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