HWJV?
How Would Jesus Vote? is taken up by the editor of the British New Statesman Andrew Stephen.
The Brits have always been intrigued by their colonial cousins' wacky religious fervor. But I ask you, w
hose recipe for rascals was it? Who pushed the Pilgrims and Quakers across the pond? Then set up a penal colony in Georgia?
As Bill Murray put it in Stripes: "Our forefathers were thrown out of every decent country in the world."
Stir it together and you've got the makings of a lively political culture. So make up your mind, J.C.
Amen.
The Brits have always been intrigued by their colonial cousins' wacky religious fervor. But I ask you, w
hose recipe for rascals was it? Who pushed the Pilgrims and Quakers across the pond? Then set up a penal colony in Georgia?As Bill Murray put it in Stripes: "Our forefathers were thrown out of every decent country in the world."
Stir it together and you've got the makings of a lively political culture. So make up your mind, J.C.
"Senator Barack Obama, perhaps, a biracial yuppie who is a member of a self-described "unashamedly black" and "unashamedly Christian" church? Even if the house magazine of that church voted last year to give an award to a man it said "truly epitomised greatness": Louis Farrakhan,... a veteran anti-Semite who describes white people as "blue-eyed devils" and Jews as "bloodsuckers." (Obama has disassociated himself from the award.)Then Stephen makes a bold statement: "I have always held that America is an infinitely more complex country than most Britons realise."
"Mitt Romney - a devout believer in a religion which supposedly holds that the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve first got together was actually in, er, Missouri?""Maybe Jesus would prefer the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, also an ordained Southern Baptist minister, who jokes that the 16 people he had executed while governor 'would hardly say I'm soft on crime' ?"
"Or Senator John McCain, a self-confessed adulterer shot down over Saigon while bombing a city in which he knew that men, women and children were living?"
Amen.
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