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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThink of those Evangelicals who Endorsed Santorum on Saturday. Then think Again!
From the NYT:
1:04 p.m. | Updated Four Christian conservative leaders who attended a meeting of evangelicals in Texas last week issued a statement Monday reiterating their firm support for Newt Gingrich.
After the meeting ended on Saturday, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, announced that a supermajority had coalesced around Rick Santorum in the hope that a more unified evangelical vote could stop Mitt Romney and result in the nomination of a more reliable conservative. He said that participants had voted 85 to 29 to support Mr. Santorum.
But Mr. Gingrichs supporters called the tally misleading because several pro-Gingrich participants had left before the final vote. While acknowledging that Mr. Santorum had won majority support, they said that initial news accounts of a consensus were incorrect.
It is unfortunate that early press reports incorrectly stated that there was a consensus for Santorum, or that the 150 leaders endorsed Santorum. Such was not the case. Many there were and still are for Newt Gingrich, said a statement issued Monday by J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman and a leading African-American conservative who is now a consultant; George Barna, a prominent Christian political analyst; the Rev. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in La Mesa, Calif., and a leader of the campaign against same-sex marriage; and Richard Lee, a prominent Baptist pastor in Atlanta.
After the meeting ended on Saturday, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, announced that a supermajority had coalesced around Rick Santorum in the hope that a more unified evangelical vote could stop Mitt Romney and result in the nomination of a more reliable conservative. He said that participants had voted 85 to 29 to support Mr. Santorum.
But Mr. Gingrichs supporters called the tally misleading because several pro-Gingrich participants had left before the final vote. While acknowledging that Mr. Santorum had won majority support, they said that initial news accounts of a consensus were incorrect.
It is unfortunate that early press reports incorrectly stated that there was a consensus for Santorum, or that the 150 leaders endorsed Santorum. Such was not the case. Many there were and still are for Newt Gingrich, said a statement issued Monday by J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman and a leading African-American conservative who is now a consultant; George Barna, a prominent Christian political analyst; the Rev. Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in La Mesa, Calif., and a leader of the campaign against same-sex marriage; and Richard Lee, a prominent Baptist pastor in Atlanta.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/four-evangelical-leaders-reaffirm-support-for-gingrich/
Hey, I'm still laughing my ass off that a bunch of fundamentalist Protestants are backing two Catholic guys!
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Think of those Evangelicals who Endorsed Santorum on Saturday. Then think Again! (Original Post)
DeathToTheOil
Jan 2012
OP
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,781 posts)1. Apparently they don't think Catholics are as heretical as Mormons.
Some of the fundies think the Catholic Church is "the whore of Babylon," which evidently isn't quite as bad as the apostate cult of Mormonism.
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)2. Great article today pertaining to that
From Joan Walsh at Salon: http://www.salon.com/2012/01/16/evangelicals_fight_amongst_themselves/
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)3. this was their last waspy presidente W
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)5. No
His dad was: W wasn't a WASP in the true (patrician) sense,
spanone
(135,855 posts)4. tony perkins delivers for his thug masters....what a sleazebag