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Re: Representing the constituency |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 9:13 am |
| Tags: marriage family, politics government, religion society, sexual ethics |
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Commenters Sy and Beth have been debating what my point was in this post -- specifically, whether I thought John Edwards came off looking good or bad -- and have asked me to weigh in. Glad to oblige. :-) In fact, my point had very little to do with Edwards, unless he was the one that chose the questions that were asked of him. (I'm not very clear on how they were chosen, actually.) It had more to do with Reverend Longcrier, who forbore to mention that besides being a pastor of a church, he's a member of this advocacy group. What interested me was the blatant PR move. How do you publicly undermine your opponents? When a member of one of the groups most opposed to your cause (as my link to the Pew Forum showed, black Protestants have a higher rate of opposition to same-sex marriage than almost any other group in the nation) speaks for you in a national forum. Brilliant. It would be like a Catholic bishop asking a self-professed Christian candidate to support abortion in the [ Full article ] |
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