The Evangelical Crackup

[Daniel]

Here are two interesting articles pertaining to evangelicals and politics with more that a few references to gay rights.

http://gaylife.about.com/od/samesexm...gaymarriag.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/op...28rich.html?hp

In the first, the author investigates the current involvement of evangelicals in politics as well as the reasons for why various organizations like Dobson & Co may soon be irrevelant. The second piece show how disconnnected they really are.

But the most significant — and happiest — explanation for the values czars’ demise as a political force is that white evangelical Christians and a new generation of evangelical leaders have themselves steadily tacked a different course from the Dobson crowd. A CBS News poll this month parallels what the Times reporter David D. Kirkpatrick found in his examination of evangelicals for today’s Times Magazine. Like most other Americans, they are more interested in hearing from presidential candidates about the war in Iraq and health care than about any other issues.