Updated from Original in American Thinker
By Chuck Rogér
The Daily Caller quotes an evangelical leader, one Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention:
“Mr. Speaker, if you want to get large numbers of Evangelicals, particularly women, to vote for you, you must address the issue of your marital past in a way that allays the fears of Evangelical women,” he wrote this week. “You must address this issue of your marital past directly and transparently and ask folks to forgive you and give you their trust and their vote.”
Seriously?
So “evangelical” voters will either sit out next November or vote for Obama or another candidate should a publicly-unrepentant Gingrich become the GOP nominee? Land’s sanctimoniousness is a sight to behold. What’s more, Land’s warning exudes recklessness. Would any clear-headed person reject an Obama opponent on the basis of that opponent’s lack of ideological purity? Would evangelicals really return Obama to office by not supporting the most viable opposition candidate?
If evangelicals follow Land’s direction, then America would witness quite a spectacle: flawed humans inviting four more years of one of the the most flawed presidents ever in order to brag about rejecting another flawed human who refused to publicly parade a personal flaw.
Most evangelical voters will probably ignore Land’s outrageous sermonizing. Most evangelicals will not stand idly by just to claim the right to wear preachy smiles for four years. People who are willing to follow Land’s guidance have a lot of growing up to do. Such dogmatic followers deserve the hideous consequences of an Obama reelection. Unfortunately, Americans who see the destructiveness in Land’s prescribed tantrum would suffer along with the tantrum throwers.
It is stunning, after thousands of years of human “civilization,” that there are still elements in society that operate by barking out careless marching orders to people. It is bloody disturbing to realize that there are people willing to unquestioningly obey.
“The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good”.Any grown up in the real world knows that perfection is not of this world.Any engineer and technician knows that they are looking for a good enough solution,for the price.Any scientist knows that his pet theory will be superseded one day by a better one.
The above mentioned gentlemen and ladys want to bring Paradise on Earth.Thats very dangerous stuff.History teaches us that they usually bring more misery,death and despair then the ones they were out to mend.Only look at all kinds of cults in past and present times.
Beware of Purists!!!
How is it possible that there only one response(mine)?Dont people realize that BHO is dangerous to the Constitution of the USA and the American-Way-Of-LIfe?
People seem to be fed up and decided for the most part. I would not read lack of response as disinterest.
It is time to hold our nose and vote for the former Massachusetts GOV he is the proven leader of this field. I have voted for people of all faiths and this GOP nomination is no different. This isn’t a bad thing most Mormons are great friends, loyal to family and uphold traditions that far out way that of others we know. To think that President Romney would do nothing more than what is right for our country would be and understatement. Ann is great and certainly evangelicals are as much a varied group as any. No Mormon is the same and no person is any more or less vulnerable than any one else. I hope the media has under estimated the evangelical view. The southern group is not as familiar with them.
“The LDS” believe all things hope all things have endured many things and HOPE to be able to endure all things.
Midwest value voters set the tone say not the the Gingrinch unrepentant theological machine.
There are “evangelicals,” and then there are “evangelicals.” What any leader of any organization, including Christian churches, proclaims as dogma, or the ladies, or the chruch’s position, isn’t necessarily true of any other church, or ladies, or position.
I seem to recall that within Christian theology, all things are for God to judge, though it is highly recommended that we forgive each other for real or imagined sins perpetrated upon ourselves. Thus it seems that the only mortal who deserves an apology would logically be solely the offended party. Why should Gingrich, or anyone else apologize to the ladies of that, or any other church, when none of them were injured by his behavior? They are not God: they lack the power to forgive in such cases.