"Patriot Pastors" have clear agenda for Tuesday vote

by USAVotes | November 5, 2006 at 04:41 pm

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The news magazine Christianity Today is a reliable guide to the evangelical community. I've met with its editorial board, which is located on the campus of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill.

I'm a deeply secular journalist and was expecting being asked to pray with them before we got down to brass tacks. In fact, they were professional, and to the point, which is just like their magazine. Even if I don't agree with it's editorial stance, I take Christianity Today seriously. So have a read from today's front page.

In an article entitled, "Meet the Patriot Pastors" you'll get a sense of how disciplined the evangelical pulpit is, and why it has focused on Ohio. An eye-opener!

Their top policy concerns are (1) the right to life (i.e., an end to abortion), (2) maintaining a godly definition of marriage, (3) preserving a parent's right to discipline and educate, and (4) defending the rights of Christians and their churches to "teach biblical values in the public square."

This stance lines up with a Republican agenda, a fact made more clear by Johnson's concern that Ohio families are struggling beneath the "weight of excessive taxation and government waste," that a "secular jihad" is overtaking the country, and that the media treat Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden "with more respect than the leader of the free world, George W. Bush."

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