Patrick Henry
08-20-2007, 08:45 PM
People in the area need to go and vote for the good Dr.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/08/christian-group.html
Christian group plans straw poll, religion-and-politics faceoff
The Family Research Council is planning a three-day "Values Voter Summit" this fall, complete with a presidential straw poll and a conservative-liberal faceoff on religion and politics.
The council advertises the conference, Oct. 19-21 in Washington, as "the largest gathering of values voters from across the nation." It will include a gala dinner honoring James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family.
Other confirmed big names include council president Tony Perkins; Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle Forum; activists Gary Bauer and Paul Weyrich; Robert Bork, Bill Bennett and former senator Rick Santorum. No word yet on whether any presidential candidates will be working the crowd.
A debate called "The Role of Faith & Politics in 2008" pits Jim Wallis, an evangelical Christian who edits the magazine Sojourners, against Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's government affairs arm and host of three syndicated radio programs.
Both men have written pox-on-both-houses books. Wallis, in God's Politics, argues that the right has hijacked faith and moral values and the left "doesn't get it." Land, in The Divided States of America, says both the right and left have misstated God's role in America's affairs.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/08/christian-group.html
Christian group plans straw poll, religion-and-politics faceoff
The Family Research Council is planning a three-day "Values Voter Summit" this fall, complete with a presidential straw poll and a conservative-liberal faceoff on religion and politics.
The council advertises the conference, Oct. 19-21 in Washington, as "the largest gathering of values voters from across the nation." It will include a gala dinner honoring James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family.
Other confirmed big names include council president Tony Perkins; Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle Forum; activists Gary Bauer and Paul Weyrich; Robert Bork, Bill Bennett and former senator Rick Santorum. No word yet on whether any presidential candidates will be working the crowd.
A debate called "The Role of Faith & Politics in 2008" pits Jim Wallis, an evangelical Christian who edits the magazine Sojourners, against Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's government affairs arm and host of three syndicated radio programs.
Both men have written pox-on-both-houses books. Wallis, in God's Politics, argues that the right has hijacked faith and moral values and the left "doesn't get it." Land, in The Divided States of America, says both the right and left have misstated God's role in America's affairs.