on the abortion issue. But if "pro-life" means trying to reduce the number of abortions, while keeping it legal, then I'm all for that. I just think abortion (at least in the 1st trimester) needs to stay legal, or women's rights will be set back to the dark ages.
Here is a quote from the article that says it all for me about the religious right:
Conservative Christian groups such as Focus on the Family say it is a matter of priorities, and their priorities are abortion, same-sex marriage and seating judges who will back their position against those practices.
Excuse me? THAT is your "Christian" agenda? I don't recall Jesus having a Sermon about how homosexuals are ruining the world and destroying our values. I don't recall Jesus condemning and judging Mary Mageline for being a prostitute. His teachings are about love. Plain and simple. And the religious right's agenda is about hate.
Here is another quote that got me scratching my head:
Dobson also has praised what he calls "pro-family tax cuts." And Janice Crouse, a senior fellow at the Christian group Concerned Women for America, said religious conservatives "know that the government is not really capable of love."
"You look to the government for justice, and you look to the church and individuals for mercy. I think Hurricane Katrina is a good example of that. FEMA just failed, and the church and the Salvation Army and corporations stepped in and met the need," she said.
What does this lady think government is? A building? It is made up of PEOPLE, for crying out loud, so the government, like any company, church or institution, is very much capable of "love", as in helping people. But you need to nurture it in order for it to give out that love. And FEMA was like an infant that was completely abandoned. If you saw that Frontline episode you will see that the agency was severely abused, cut, and reduced to a minor agency that * really wanted to just get rid of. So all the good people left. This woman represents the WORST of conservative thinking -- I mean I read JK's speech about the War on Terror and how in the ME, everything for people is done through the Mosque, with all of the extremism there, and the despotic governments do nothing. And people like James Dobson want that here.
These people need to be stopped is all I can say. And by the way, the other person besides Wallis who can show us the way is Bono. He used Christianity to get the religious right (even Santorum) to get on board about AIDS and poverty in Africa. So there is hope to get rank and file Christians to think about things differently.