Evangelicals Prepare For 2012
- Mark Tooley - The American Spectator
- Nov 7, 2011
Will evangelicals sustain their traditionally high level of support for Republicans in next year's election, despite Evangelical Left exertions to peel away some evangelicals on issues like poverty and the environment?
Long-time Religious Left activist Jim Wallis is the chief cheerleader for shifting evangelicals leftward and has aired some of his talking points in recent debates with conservatives, including Southern Baptist leaders Al Mohler and Richard Land, plus Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute.
"God doesn't mind prosperity as long as it is shared," Wallis reassuringly admitted during his exchange with Brooks before the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) in Indianapolis last month. "God doesn't judge nations by their GNP, by their military fire power, or how much their popular culture is the envy of the world. God says I will judge you by how you treat the most vulnerable in your midst."
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