A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on November 11th, 2008 in This blog

I have a longer response to Rabbi Michael Lerner’s Op-Ed. The meat of the matter:

We have to understand that America, as a whole, remains more conservative than Progressive. Yes, Barack Obama was elected President, in large part, because he promised to fix our healthcare system and right the economic injustices of our current economy. But at the same time, Prop 8 was passed in California, denying the basic right of marriage to the gay members of our family. Similar measures were adopted in Florida and Arizona. In Arkansas, the ability of children to enjoy protective rights of unmarried parents through fostering or adoption was stripped from them.

These are truly unjust actions. But if we allow the Progressive movement to be broadly reactive without first building the shared values and beliefs that make such actions sustainable; then our house will turn out to have been built upon the sand. And when the electoral rains come, we will be washed away as thoroughly as it now appears our opponents have been.

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