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By the way, could you rewrite this sentence: “Yes, but only because of overextended liberal application w/in contexts by folks like Wallis and others.” I cannot figure out what you are saying here.

Jim Wallis & some of lameline Protestants have abused the term "social justice" to include areas well beyond a biblically based view of it.

Some overextend it to include...
...if heterosexuals can get married, why not homosexuals? -- including that as a "social justice issue."
...extreme environmentalism.
...population issues -- what they call "overpopulation."
..."reproductive freedom" -- a code phrase in and of itself as meaning open-ended condom distribution and abortion-on-demand.
The list goes on & on.

The "big tent umbrella" of 'social justice' is often "social unrighteousness!"

So, yes, I was agreeing that "social justice" has become more of a "dirty word" among evangelicals. If a distinction is made between true Biblically based "social justice" vs. anything & everything that lameline Protestants are placing under that umbrella, then it remains fine.

It's like the rainbow -- meant to convey a promise of God. But when homosexuals try to usurp it as their own, it gets into "messier" associations.

You have failed to understand what Glenn Beck is talking about.

No, as I've indicated above, I understand very well what Beck was talking about. The problem is that he didn't bother to make some qualifying distinctions...what he did was tantamount to jumping all over the rainbow just because the rainbow's been usurped by the "diversity" types.

Beck should have properly focused on the abuse & usurpation of "social justice" -- not on tossing the baby out with the bathwater!

Thanks for the clarification. I am in agreement with you. This “social justice” is just another case of what is called legalistic theology. It is religion that creates a system of human tasks which must be performed to gain salvation. In this case, it is a system of social justice that must be followed as dictated by the collective body. It is a demonic bondage that reacts with violence and intolerance toward the concept of freedom. This creates a separation from the true message of Christ: the liberating eternal life that comes from an intimate relationship with Christ.

All legalistic churches are cults. It is spiritual blindness. They rob their members of the gifts of the Holy Spirit because they deny the liberty of Christ by killing joy, love and hope. It is the focus on the outward manifestations of righteousness rather than the grace of Christ that brings salvation. It is this Phariseeism that has killed the spiritual promise of Christ down through the ages.

We need Christians well armed with the spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit to wage this war the enemies of freedom are mounting against our nation. They cannot be blinded with the demonic attack of legalistic theology.