{"id":67,"date":"2005-10-10T06:11:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=67"},"modified":"2005-10-09T21:23:18","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T03:23:18","slug":"night-of-the-living-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/night-of-the-living-evangelicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of the Living Evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d like to think an evangelical Christian as worthy of the bench as a Jew, Muslim or Atheist <\/p>\n

(knowing that an Atheist would never be nominated). Unfortunately, right now, the loudest, most noticeable evangelicals strike me as <\/p>\n

dangerous, looney zealots who would despise me — or convert me — but never tolerate me. So, at the moment, nominating an evangelical <\/p>\n

seems like nominating a zombie. I’m truly sorry to say that. <\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I believe in diversity and recognize there are a lot <\/p>\n

of views in America I don’t agree with but must tolerate, even views of people who in turn would condemn me. (This is why conservatives <\/p>\n

beat liberals.)<\/p>\n

What Bush’s vaunted Base<\/strong>*<\/sup> is about to learn is just how bull-headed and doggedly <\/p>\n

loyal he is to those he knows personally. They will not move him in the least. Only someone closer to him than Miers can do that, if <\/p>\n

anyone can. mjh<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Strangely,the translation of al Qaeda is “the base”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

HoustonChronicle.com – Dionne: Conservatives use religion when <\/p>\n

it suits their aims<\/a> By E.J. DIONNE<\/p>\n

The use of Miers’ religion as a magnet for conservative support is not just the work of a <\/p>\n

few religious voices. It’s part of the administration’s strategy. …<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear: It is pro-administration conservatives, <\/p>\n

not those terrible liberals, who are making an issue of Miers’ evangelical faith.<\/p>\n

Liberals are not opposing Miers because she is <\/p>\n

an evangelical. Conservatives are telling their friends to support Miers because she is an evangelical. …<\/p>\n

And Ed Morrissey, <\/p>\n

whose “Captain’s Quarters” is one of the most popular conservative blogs, said publicly what other concerned conservatives have said <\/p>\n

privately. “The push by more enthusiastic Miers supporters to consider her religious outlook smacks of a bit of hypocrisy,” Morrissey <\/p>\n

wrote.<\/p>\n

“After all, we argued the exact opposite when it came to John Roberts and William Pryor when they appeared before the <\/p>\n

Senate Judiciary Committee. … Conservatives claimed that using religion as a reason for rejection violated the Constitution and any <\/p>\n

notion of religious freedom. Does that really change if we base our support on the same grounds?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d like to think an evangelical Christian as worthy of the bench as a Jew, Muslim or Atheist (knowing that an Atheist would never be nominated). Unfortunately, right now, the loudest, most noticeable evangelicals strike me as dangerous, looney zealots who would despise me — or convert me — but never tolerate me. So, at … Continue reading Night of the Living Evangelicals<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}