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Evangelical Tide Turning?

"It's hard for me to say that Christians should be marching against abortion and carrying signs, and then turn around and giving a pep rally for the war in Iraq without even contemplating that hundreds and hundreds of people are being killed on a regular basis over there," Urcavich said.

"I'm very antiabortion, but the reality is the right to life encompasses a much broader field than just abortion. If I'm a proponent of life, I have to think about the consequences of not providing prescription drugs to seniors or sending young men off to war."

Full article: Conflicted Evangelicals Could Cost Bush Votes

October 27, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink

Comments

i saw this article too. I'm afraid that when conflicted people do what "society" tells them they're supposed to do. hopefully I'm wrong and these evangelicals won't vote bush.

[side note: it always bothers the heck out of me that the "pro-lifers" are often the same people that pro the death penalty, the NRA, and the war. I'm glad someone else sees inconsistency in these positions]

Posted by: SR at Oct 29, 2004 6:31:43 PM

http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel29.html

has more on bush & god.

Posted by: SR at Oct 31, 2004 12:48:48 PM

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