From Saturday's Boston Globe, there was a fascinating story by Michael Paulson on the subject of (some) evangelical Christians getting increasingly uncomfortable with right-wing politics at the same time they're getting more interested in what ought to have been big issues for them all along (e.g. poverty, enviroment, etc). One great paragraph below the fold and
the whole story here.
A top official of the National Association of Evangelicals told reporters gathered at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary that the Moral Majority, a 1980s political movement dominated by Christian conservatives, was ''an aberration and a regrettable one at that," even though it drew evangelicals into the political process, because the organization was ''fatally flawed by a hubris that made the movement condescending and more than a bit judgmental."
Now, obviously they're still hard at work to keep the world safe from married gay people and family planning, but now they're also also thinking that maybe they could do some actual good by getting into issues like Creation Care, caring for the poor, healthcare availability and other issues. Most interestingly, they're saying (if not believing) that the GOP shouldn't assume that they're always on the same page.
It remains to be seen if they actually care enough to support the words with pressure, but who knows?