AP: 'Christian Right Looks to Rebound'

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Brandon, Fla. (AP) -- Headed into the 2008 election season, Christian conservatives are weary. Their movement has lost iconic leaders and the Republican presidential field is uninspiring. But they may have found hope in a trailer on the campus of Bell Shoals Baptist Church.

... Organized by a scarcely known Tampa-area Christian group and ending Saturday, the summit sounded a back-to-basics theme: that evangelicals are called to be active citizens to combat threats from the left; that the work must involve not just national advocacy groups but local people and pastors; and the fight requires patience and persistence.

... Even this weekend's summit had its disappointments. Organizers had hoped up to 350 people would attend, laying the groundwork for a new Florida activist network.

But only 104, nearly all from Florida, had registered by Friday. A workshop on the basics of grass roots activism drew a handful of people — and one was a spy, an activist for Americans United for Separation of Church and State researching the opposition.

... A Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey this month showed white evangelical Protestants are the only major group that considers social issues like abortion and gay marriage very important to '08 presidential decision-making. But even among that voting bloc, social issues trailed the Iraq war, the economy and other domestic issues.

Read more: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/22/national/a111517D51.DTL&tsp=1

[midnight]

1. God has her own ways. Perhaps people are more intuned to

real compassion, and not the "Money trumps Peace" motto.

[BlooInBloo]

2. Like Broder's "Bush is poised to bounce back in the polls"?

:rofl:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. They need to start picketing the funerals of gays

THAT'LL get 'em back into the public eye! ...Oh, wait... ya mean it's been done?

(In case you don't get it- :sarcasm: )

[Warpy]

4. When it's over, it's OVER, and people are over it.

The only thing that allowed these nutcases to flourish is millennial fever. Well, the millennium is safely behind us and the country is starting to convalesce.

I knew the low carb craze was over when I saw low carb chocolate chip cookies in the market. When people start to look for ways to cheat, it's over.

I read an article about Christian porno sites about a year and a half ago. Same thing. When people start to cheat, it's over.

So good luck to the brimstone peddlers. Maybe they can sweeten the pot by offering premiums for joining, like pet rocks and beanie babies.

[Mythsaje]

5. Christian Porn sites?

Are you serious?

What's the point of THAT? :rofl:

[Warpy]

9. Oh, they're hilarious

People are assured all the couples are married and born again and the site is only to be used as guidance for other married couples. It's all very pious.

Yeah, right.

[MikeNearMcChord]

6. The Christian Right is finished

People have had enough of them, even the GOP will sh**can them after 2008.

[David__77]

8. The media said this in late 1992 too.

After Clinton was elected and the GOP failed to perform as well as expected in other races, it was thought that the fundies were spent. Of course that was not true. What's required is remaining on the ideological offensive against the right. Any resting or complacency will result in terrible losses.

[tridim]

7. They should run Pastor Ted

All his demons have already been exorcised in rehab, and he has "the look".