Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility

[kwassa]

This article from the Washington Post is a folow-up to a 4 day conference in Washington last week about the rising political activism of the religious left. It is worth reading in full.

Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility
A Different List Of Moral Issues

By Caryle Murphy and Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 20, 2006; Page A0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901813.html

The religious left is back.

Long overshadowed by the Christian right, religious liberals across a wide swath of denominations are engaged today in their most intensive bout of political organizing and alliance-building since the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s, according to scholars, politicians and clergy members.

In large part, the revival of the religious left is a reaction against conservatives' success in the 2004 elections in equating moral values with opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

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According to John C. Green, an expert on religion and politics at the University of Akron, and others, the religious left cuts across almost all denominations, drawing in black churches, liberal Roman Catholics and mainline Protestants as well as Jews, Buddhists, Muslims and people who say they are "spiritual" but not affiliated with an organized faith.

(much more in the original article)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. They have always been there. It is about time they got some recognition by

the damn Media!!!!!!!

[SPKrazy]

4. Absolutely!

They have been there all along

[gorbal]

2. What about that guy who was always critisizing the Bush administration..

That weird liberal dude who was it...oh yeah the POPE!

The New York Times has a couple of great articles on this topic-

One more Moral Value-Fighting Poverty

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/politics/30poverty.html?ex=1148702400&en=037a5fa7eab86b66&ei=5070

Rebels with a Cross-

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D10FC3C550C718CDDAA0894DE404482

[trotsky]

3. Yeah, the same dude who criticized Kerry for not being anti-choice.

Let's not go overboard with the "liberal dude" stuff, mmmkay?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. But he also called Bush the AntiChrist

Wonder who he thought we should vote for??

[SidDithers]

6. Get religion completely out of politics...

Why would we assume that the "religious left" would be any better than the "Christian right". Don't they take guidance from the same Bible?

Sid