American - Clergyman | February 25, 1935 -
Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.
Tony Campolo
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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
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I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
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Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
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In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
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It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.
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Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
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Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.
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It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
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