CBS News tonight: The religious Left

Interesting report.

Poverty, Environment, War in Iraq were cited as the main concerns of the liberal Christian groups.

"Jesus never said anything about homosexual marriage or abortion." Quote from religious leader in the report.

Against consumerism! (At least Tony Coppolo {sp})

More importantly, he's one of a growing number of evangelicals of conscience who are beginning to pry segments of the evangelical church away from the clutches of the religious right.

Yeah. Tony Campolo's a good guy. It's time the religious left takes back Christianity from the RW zealots.
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The left is letting them know that.

I was watching it on TV and got the name wrong.

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It would be better to refer to those that follow and promote the teachings of Christ as "the religious".

Ascribing a political leaning to them will only allow the media to marginalize their message.

it needs to be "hijacked back". The faith stands for itself.

what would Jesus do?tend to the poor,the sick,and those needing help.educate and care for the children.not judge.

The Christofascists are not about Christ at all.

It's the RW funamentalists who can't seem to stop acting in ways that would make Jesus vomit.

They were instrumental during Vietnam with conscientious objectors. Amazing group.

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The conference that Sen. Obama, Sen. Clinton and Gov. Dean addressed last week was sponsored by the Sojourners movement.

Sojourners are actually fairly left-wing on foreign policy and economic issues; and moderate on social issues.


Sojourners are the group they were speaking to:

link for Sojourners


http://www.sojo.net /

link for Sojourners Magazine:


http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.home

Interview on Democracy Now with Rev. Jim Wallis (founder and leader of Sojourners) - link:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/26/1355204

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"The Rev. Tim Ahrens shared Wallis' dismay: "The faith of Jesus Christ has become such a violent and violating faith in the religious right," he contended. Ahrens is the founder of We Believe Ohio, a group of 300 clergy members dedicated to promoting social justice."

"Many Sojourner supporters didn't hesitate to call right-wingers "bible thumpers" and "fanatics," and they criticized the Bush administration for not helping the poor. They gave Obama thunderous applause when he proclaimed his support for separation of church and state and giving teenagers access to contraception. " link:
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/nation/14923089.htm

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