The mainstream media are working hard to characterize evangelical involvement in 2008 politics as disarray and disfunction because the community is not behind a single candidate.\u00a0 Sorry, there isn’t any disarray.\u00a0 Evangelicals aren’t\u00a0cracked-up, as the New York Times suggested recently.\u00a0 The misleading characterizaiton is partially\u00a0because, in\u00a0public\u00a0and political discourse,\u00a0evangelical is now considered\u00a0a political voting bloc rather than a theological distinction.\u00a0 Evangelical Christians share spiritual beliefs, almost all are social conservatives, and most are defense and economic conservatives.\u00a0 But their priorities differ, and the younger generation is concerned about issues that haven’t been particularly important to their parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So it isn’t suprising that some evangelicals like a candidate such as Mike Huckabee because he is evangelical and because he’s a social conservative.\u00a0 It isn’t surprising that some support Mitt Romney, an economic conservative, or John McCain, a defense conservative.\u00a0 That’s not disarray, its diversity.\u00a0 And it is further evidence that evangelicals are not monolithic and easily pegged.<\/p>\n
We won’t be seeing the split support by evangelicals in the general election.\u00a0 Although Obama and Clinton have been trying to speak evangelicalese from time to time,\u00a0 evangelicals aren’t fooled, and very few of them share the liberal political philosophy of the Democratic frontrunners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The mainstream media are working hard to characterize evangelical involvement in 2008 politics as disarray and disfunction because the community is not behind a single candidate.\u00a0 Sorry, there isn’t any disarray.\u00a0 Evangelicals aren’t\u00a0cracked-up, as the New York Times suggested recently.\u00a0 The misleading characterizaiton is partially\u00a0because, in\u00a0public\u00a0and political discourse,\u00a0evangelical is now considered\u00a0a political voting bloc rather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jim","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t