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Posted on 03/17/2006 3:04:27 PM PST by Crackingham
Prominent leaders from the Christian right have warned Republicans they must do more to advance conservative values ahead of the US mid-term elections. Their message to Congress, controlled by Republicans, is "must do better". Support from about a quarter of Americans who describe themselves as evangelicals was a factor in President George W Bush's two election victories. The Republicans will need to keep them onboard if they are to retain control of Congress in November.
At a news conference in Washington, some of America's most influential conservative leaders said the current perception among evangelical Christians was that the Republican majority was not doing enough for them. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said that apart from confirming two conservative judges to the Supreme Court, "core values voters" did not feel that Congress was advancing their interests.
The leaders appear to be reflecting a growing sense of frustration among the Christian right, over what they see as a lack of legislative progress on issues such as banning same-sex marriages.
This is a predictable biennial occurence.
Exactly correct.
Evangelicals don't want to stay home. But at the same time their alliegence is not to the moderate republicans, Who Would Do Nothing For Their Political Aims.
When it comes to issues like Roe, gay marriage, access to the public schools, or Kooks teaching in colleges, moderate republicans are No Better Than democrats.
Nominate one. You'll See. Again.
And more thing. Those republicans {even on a forum like this} who think they can scare or bully evangelicals, Just By Your Talk???
Well, to put it gently -- You'd do the party a big favor if you'd keep your mouth closed.
I've said here before that Giuliani will never even formally announce his candidacy in 2008. Anyone out there want to bet on him winning the GOP nomination?
The Presiding Bishop said that "ID opens the door to pantheism and every kind of New Age cults. And it does not mention Christ or the soul, so it is not Christian, and it doesn't seem to be good science."
"It [Intelligent design] is probably like one of these cults that come along every few years, like New Age. Maybe it will become its own church, like Scientology or Christian Science. I think in two or three years we will hear very little from them."
That's some pretty profound thinking.
You got that right! Marching behind NAMBLA in a parade some years back - even if he didn't support their agenda - made quite a statement.
Who else will they vote for? A third party if necessary. There is no divine right to the ballot box for Republicans in this nation. Some of you need to get it through your heads that what we did to the Democrats in throwing them one after the other out of Washington can as easily be done with republicans. Neither of the two parties has a right to power.
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Character and his position on core issues don't matter. He's a Republican and people think he can win. Those are the important issues. Anything else is unimportant.
He wouldn't have the power to "allow" abortion. I think people tend to forget (or perhaps just don't know) that even if the SCOTUS overturns Roe, that won't make abortion illegal. It will just remove the issue from the jurisdiction of the feds.
Same here. I could not have expressed it any more exactly.
It makes no sense joining and building a political party if everybody is “bipartisan.”
‘Second guessing is not a strategy’ and capitulation is not a victory...
He is a tool for the left, plain and simple.
If he was serious about defeating Hitlery, he would have run against her in this senate race... he is not.
If Jeb Bush runs, all bets are off; Jeb sails through the primary and trounces the left in the general election.
Truth. This is the issue the left cares about more than anything. Roe v. Wade is just a sideshow to distract us - - we are slowly winning that issue.
I can see it here with all the pro-Giuliani suck ups who have no other purpose here on FreeRepublic but their obsession to bash the Christians. I have observed here on FreeRepublic, a never ending flaming of religious folks and conservatives by people who promote things such as drug abuse, homosexuality, the ritual murder of abortion and other garbage. (pssst... I'm an atheist and I'm sick of that crap. Why else would an article from the left wing BBC be posted here?)
They really hate Genesis more than anything else...
Mosaic Law (of which the Ten Commandments is just a part) is the foundation of Western Civilization. Genesis is the primary focus of the Declaration of Independence, from where our Constitutional rights are derived. The Ten Commandments are the foundation of our judicial system.
Moses wrote Genesis. This is why such people will jump up and down screaming when the Ten Commandments are displayed or the Creationist idea of monogamy from the book of Genesis is introduced.
The latter (Genesis) also ruins the illogical and non-biological arguments of homosexual monogamy. In a secular sense, homosexuality is an idolatry of perversion. It is in no way an anatomical function of the human organism, but a phantasmagoric creation from within the mentally disturbed human mind, a social psychosis, naked and on full exhibitionist display.
This is the whole crux of their attack on creationism - - they are really frustrated by Genesis, but cannot destroy the axiomatic state of procreant human biology, it does not fit their religious agenda.
Homosexual monogamy advocates seek ceremonious sanctification of their anatomical perversions and esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden, impoverished egos.
Neither of those will satisfy their universal dissatisfaction with mortality or connect them to something eternal. With pantheons of fantasies as their medium of infinitization, they still have nothing in them of reality, any more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream.
Homosexual deviancy is really a pagan practice (and a self-induced social psychosis) at war with the Judaic culture over what is written in the book of Genesis (1:27, 2:18).
This is exactly what the National Socialists were at war with... so, when someone uses the term "Gaystapo," they might not realize how close to the truth they really are.
Many will seek ceremonious sanctification and esoteric absolution in some type of marriage rite, but that still fails to give them a connection to the eternal in both a religious and temporal, procreant sense - - the union does not produce offspring.
Dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality only feeds the impoverishment of the ego further. Homosexuals really hate human life; their whole desire is rooted in the destruction of it...
Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the belief some higher power defines what is correct in human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins. Transfiguration is a pantheon of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics and enemies will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.
Wow!
Reading that is like reading Spanish. If I go slowly, I can figure out the words, but mostly, it would be a whole lot easier if it were written in English.
He is a tool for the left, plain and simple.
If he was serious about defeating Hitlery, he would have run against her in this senate race... he is not.
No, he's a NY prosecutor. That means he's a fighter. Every day of his life he probably gets out of bed in the morning saying, "Okay, where's the fight, where's the fight?" These are guys who live for conflict, and thank god they exist. However, he's not about to enter a fight that he can't win.
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