Red Letter’ Liberal Christians: A New Front Group For Democrats
By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Chairman, Traditional Values Coalition
September 26, 2006 - Democrats have an anti-religion problem. In fact, they have such a serious anti-religion problem that in 2004 they had to bring a leftist pastor named Jim Wallis to try to teach Democrat congressmen how to use “God talk” in their campaign speeches. This pathetic effort failed as will a new disinformation campaign called “Red Letter Christians.”
Wallis, founder of the left-wing Sojourners group, and self-described “progressive evangelical” Tony Campolo, have just founded a liberal front organization called the “Red Letter Christians.” Wallis, Campolo, Father Richard Rohr, “Emergent Church” pioneer Brian McLaren, Dr. Cheryl J. Sanders, Rev. Noel Castellanos, and others met recently to form this new pseudo-evangelical group.
These “Red Letter Christians” are supposedly trying to alert American Evangelicals to the importance of living the words of Jesus as highlighted in red in many Bibles. Their idea of living the words of Jesus, however, is somehow reinterpreted to mean support for every liberal political agenda on the horizon.
These pseudo-evangelicals would have you believe that the Bible only contains the Word of God. True Evangelicals believe that the Bible -- each word, each sentence -- is the Word of God. This is how you can tell the difference between these pseudo-evangelicals and true Evangelicals.
Wallis and Campolo both have lifelong careers as left-of-center social activists. Wallis was a radical anti-Vietnam War activist in the 1960s and an apologist for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and other leftist guerrilla forces in Latin America in the 1980s. I wonder if Jesus would have supported Marxist terrorism. Frankly, I doubt it.
Campolo’s political views are as a skewed as Wallis’s. In a speech at Wheaton College not long after 9/11, Campolo claimed that then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was more dangerous than Osama Bin Laden! (Campolo was also a “spiritual” counselor to finger-wagging President Clinton after the “blue dress” incident at the White House that eventually resulted in Clinton’s impeachment in the House.)
These pastors are the leaders of the “Red Letter Christian” movement.
In every election cycle, we see the same tired old left-wing “religious” activists trotted out by the Democrats as proof that the Democrat Party has a spiritual base.
Yet, these “religious” leftists and Democrats routinely support policies that are diametrically opposed to the teachings of the Bible. The Bible condemns the taking of innocent life—yet liberals support abortion on demand. The Bible condemns the behavior of homosexuality—yet liberals support homosexual marriage and adoption. The Bible calls for the punishment of evildoers and justifies war when there are threats to national sovereignty—yet liberals are routinely weak on punishment of criminals and weak on national security.
Adding a garnish of religious talk to campaign speeches for liberals does nothing to change the reality that current liberal thinking is the antithesis of true Christianity.
Americans need to understand that these pseudo-evangelicals are nothing more than shills for the Democrat Party and trying to use whatever credibility they think they have to draw Christians away from the Republican Party and a truly Biblical worldview.
As Americans go to the polls this November, they have important decisions to make about the direction this nation will take during the next few years. Making the wrong decision can place individuals in positions of power who will implement anti-family, anti-Biblical policies that will impact us for decades to come. Putting liberals in power over the Senate will undermine our war on Islamic terrorism and destroy our chances of reforming the federal courts! Putting liberals in charge of the House will result in impeachment proceedings against the President and endless witch hunt hearings conducted by Bush haters.
Pseudo-evangelicals Wallis and Campolo are doing whatever they can to convince voters that liberals actually have an orthodox Christian belief system. Most don’t. American voters, however, can see through this charade. It’s time for these leftists to “moveon.org” to some other religious scam.
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Originally Posted by Gary88
