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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 7:41 PM
Subject: Religion and Politics
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> Wednesday, March 1, 2000
>
> RELIGION AND POLITICS
>
> REV. JIM WALLIS, [log in to unmask], http://www.sojourners.com
> Editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, Rev. Wallis said: "Al Gore and
> George W. Bush have talked about how much Jesus influenced them. The
> question has been whether that's an appropriate thing for a candidate to
> talk about. It is very appropriate for a candidate to speak of their
> personal faith -- if they say what it means in relation to public policy
> issues. So what would Jesus say about poverty in the midst of prosperity?
> What would Jesus say about 44 million Americans without health
> insurance?.... Talking about whether Bush's speech at Bob Jones University
> will affect how Catholics vote is a way of pretending to talk about
religion
> while actually just horseracing the field. The real question is how the
> candidates will relate to the growing importance of faith-based
> organizations."
>
> REV. LUCIUS WALKER, [log in to unmask], http://www.ifconews.org
> Executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community
> Organization, Rev. Walker said: "The presidential election is largely
about
> the buying and selling of public office and that's morally reprehensible.
> The method of the election of the highest office is morally bankrupt
because
> it's dependent on the god of green rather than the God of the scriptures.
We
> need to drive the money changers from the temple of our democracy.... The
> margin of difference between the major candidates is fairly narrow --
they're
> two sides of the same coin."
>
> REV. MEL WHITE, [log in to unmask], http://www.soulforce.com
> Rev. White is co-chair of Soulforce, a network of people of faith
committed
> to applying Gandhi's principles of nonviolence to the liberation of sexual
> minorities. Before coming out as a gay man, White was a ghost writer for
> leaders of the "religious right" including Pat Robertson and Jerry
Falwell.
> "The fundamentalist right frequently condemns people who disagree with
> them," Dr. White said. "Now Mr. McCain has condemned the fundamentalist
> right with equal fury. What have we gained? Nothing. We need political
> leaders who understand that ends do not justify the means. Right, left, or
> center, we are fellow Americans, sisters and brothers, children of the
same
> Creator. If a person wants to bring us together as our President, he or
she
> must bring us together as a candidate as well. These political campaigns
> stir up divisiveness. They leave us worse off than when we started.
> Demeaning and caricaturing our enemies only leads to anger and violence. I
> agree with Mr. McCain that the rhetoric of Robertson and Falwell is
> dangerous and untrustworthy. But when I stoop to that same kind of
rhetoric
> in condemning them, I become dangerous and untrustworthy myself."
>
> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
> Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
>
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