Questioninggeller
12th November 2006, 04:58 PM
Christian Right Agenda In Shambles After GOP Defeat
Moderate Evangelicals seen chafing against narrow priorities like abortion, gay rights. Will some work with Dems?
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Then, as if things could not get worse, there was the disgrace of Sheldon's own friend and colleague, Rev. Ted Haggard, the Colorado mega-church leader and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an even bigger pillar of Republican support on the Christian right. Sheldon disclosed that he and "a lot" of others knew about Haggard's homosexuality "for awhile ... but we weren't sure just how to deal with it."
Months before a male prostitute publicly revealed Haggard's secret relationship with him, and the reverend's drug use as well, "Ted and I had a discussion," explained Sheldon, who said Haggard gave him a telltale signal then: "He said homosexuality is genetic. I said, no it isn't. But I just knew he was covering up. They need to say that."
From: Christian Right Agenda In Shambles After GOP Defeat, Jewish Week, Nov 11, 2006 (http://thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13253)
Spotted by dailykos.com (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/11/125417/66)
Moderate Evangelicals seen chafing against narrow priorities like abortion, gay rights. Will some work with Dems?
...
Then, as if things could not get worse, there was the disgrace of Sheldon's own friend and colleague, Rev. Ted Haggard, the Colorado mega-church leader and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, an even bigger pillar of Republican support on the Christian right. Sheldon disclosed that he and "a lot" of others knew about Haggard's homosexuality "for awhile ... but we weren't sure just how to deal with it."
Months before a male prostitute publicly revealed Haggard's secret relationship with him, and the reverend's drug use as well, "Ted and I had a discussion," explained Sheldon, who said Haggard gave him a telltale signal then: "He said homosexuality is genetic. I said, no it isn't. But I just knew he was covering up. They need to say that."
From: Christian Right Agenda In Shambles After GOP Defeat, Jewish Week, Nov 11, 2006 (http://thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13253)
Spotted by dailykos.com (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/11/125417/66)