Posted on 12/31/2006 6:42:10 AM PST by shrinkermd
Edited on 12/31/2006 5:55:00 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
THE DEC. 1 appearance of US Senator Barack Obama at the World AIDS Day summit signals one possible, and hopeful, future for American politics. The summit, hosted by best-selling evangelical preacher Rick Warren, was itself significant; who would have thought 20 years ago that evangelicals, who then barely acknowledged the existence of AIDS, would now be leaders in calling public attention to its ravages -- particularly in Africa?
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From what I've read on FR, Warren's services are more like a rock concert than a typical Evangelical service. i think it's one of those "feel good" churches without any right or wrong.
Can anyone shed any light?
"That is exactly what happened."
No, not exactly. He won but they did not "see to it".
I agree, although it takes a considerable ... er, mental block ... to ignore live-birth abortion while focussing on other reasons for voting. (This would not be a top priority in voting for, say, a county sheriff or a state representative, but certainly ought to be a major consideration for President and U.S. Senate elections.)
In addition, as I mentioned, at some point sentimentality should yield to reality. Condom handouts do not stop the spread of AIDS. Higher minimum wages do not help the poor. More money for education doesn't improve outcomes. And so on.
I'm sorry but a group of "evangelicals" didn't hand Reagan one of the biggest landslides in modern presidential election history.
If they DID, and they didn't, that makes the US kind of like Iran where the religous leaders rule by proxy. If they did, and they didn't, that made the US a theocratic state from '84-'88.
Reagan won big in '84 because people liked him FAR better than Mondale. It's just that simple. You can believe it was handed to him by "evangelicals", the Illuminati, or space aliens for all I care. It's just not accurate.
Thanks.
I thought Bill Clinton and Bill Gates had AIDS under control.
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