Posted on 11/16/2004 10:57:10 AM PST by kaehurowing
Bypassed for PCUSA honors, Rice is new secretary of state
By John H. Adams The Layman Online Tuesday, November 16, 2004
In naming Condoleezza "Condi" Rice as the nation's new secretary of state, President George W. Bush chose an evangelical Presbyterian who has never mustered a mention in the denomination's selections for Women of Faith Awards.
How Rice, who turned 50 on Nov. 14, became a Presbyterian in the first place is a story that resonates with the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s attempt to increase its minority membership. But, despite her deep faith, her public service for President Bush and his father and her tenure as provost at Stanford University, she has been bypassed for honors within her own denomination.
Instead, the Women's Program Area has chosen to present its annual award to women such as Janie Spahr, a lesbian activist; retired U.S. House member Eva Clayton, an ecumenical activist who represented the denomination at meetings of the World Reformed Alliance (the organization that recently condemned capitalism); feminist theologians; and advocates of abortion.
The awards have reflected a consistent advocacy of liberal social and political views in a denomination in which more than half of the members are Republicans, according to the denomination's polling arm, the Presbyterian Panel.
During President George H.W. Bush's administration, Rice served for two years as assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Soviet affairs at the National Security Council. She has been President George W. Bush's national security adviser for four years.
When she served as provost at Stanford University, Rice worshipped at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, a 4,500 member congregation. In Washington, she attends National Presbyterian Church along with another woman who is prominent in national politics, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, a former presidential candidate.
Dole also has never mustered a mention as a Women of Faith recipient.
The fact is that there are many traditional Christians in the PCUSA; however, the national church has been hi-jacked by the Far Left, and spends the denomination's money hobnobbing with Hizbollah terrorists, boycotting Taco Bell, supporting same-sex marriage and partial birth abortion, denouncing the president, calling for boycotts of Israel, and scheming to see how they can merge with the even further left United Church of Christ.
Given how they want to divest from Israel while not breathing a word about Palestinian terrorism, I would think this would speak in Rice's favor.
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