Uh, oh ... the evangelicals are upset with the Tea Parties (I doubt it).
Tea parties stir evangelicals' fears
“There’s a libertarian streak in the tea party movement that concerns me as a cultural conservative,” said Bryan Fischer, director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association. “The tea party movement needs to insist that candidates believe in the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage.”
“As far as I can tell [the tea party movement] has a politics that’s irreligious. I can’t see how some of my fellow conservatives identify with it,” said Richard Cizik, who broke with a major evangelical group over his support for government action on climate change, but who remains largely in line with the Christian right on social issues. “The younger Evangelicals who I interact with are largely turned off by the tea party movement — by the incivility, the name-calling, the pathos of politics.”
There’s no centralized tea party organization, and anecdotes suggest that many tea party participants hold socially conservative views. But those views have been little in evidence at movement gatherings or in public statements, and are sometimes deliberately excluded from the political agenda.
Who is this Cizik guy? And why is he trying to stir up the mythical "libertarian scare?"
Religion, Politics and Tea Parties
Richard Cizik is a fool ...
Cizik did not specify exactly where and how he “interacts” with these “younger Evangelicals,” but perhaps he met them through his fell0wship at the (Ted Turner-funded) United Nations Foundation. You reckon he got some of that Turner money for his new organization?
Oh, but global warming wasn’t the reason for Cizik’s split with the National Association of Evangelicals. NTTAWWT.
Please see my further observations at the American Spectator blog.
Ah, now it makes sense. Richard Cizik is just some left-wing useful idiot.
Can a Christian Join the Tea Party?
The rise of a new conservative grass roots fueled by a secular revulsion at government spending is stirring fears among leaders of the old conservative grass roots, the evangelical Christian right,” according to Politico.
Dead wrong, and very possibly by design: while pretending that the Tea Partiers don’t care about anything but money, the author ignores the obvious: no, that’s the GOP !
Here’s the truth: The GOP trough-dwellers are horrified that the American people might be fed up with both bloated hot-tub parties that are in the grip of the war industry, the banksters, and the insatiable special interests.
Curiously, Politico does not mention war at all. But like its fellow troughdwellers, it trembles too, since the Tea Partiers don’t feed lazy DC reporters leaks that foment Washington’s endless juvenile vendettas. In fact, the Tea Party folks might actually be more devoted to Christian principles than the boastful religious tax-hikers and warmongers who long for an American/Israeli attack on Iran that will bring on Armageddon in the Middle East. Wonder of wonders, they might even go so far as to obey “Thou Shalt Not Kill” and “Thou Shalt Not Steal” !
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