{"id":7792,"date":"2005-08-10T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/10\/testing-times.html"},"modified":"2005-08-10T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T17:30:04","slug":"testing_times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/10\/testing_times.html","title":{"rendered":"Testing times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does anyone actually listen to Jerry Falwell any more? Anyone, that is, besides the folks he manages to offend every time he opens his mouth?<\/a><\/p>\n

A Jewish organization is calling on the Rev. Jerry Falwell to retract a “vote Christian in 2008” statement made months ago in a letter raising money for his ministries. The criticism of Falwell appeared Monday on the Web site of the Anti-Defamation League, a group organized in 1913 to fight anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

Falwell, founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and Moral Majority, included with his mass fundraising letter for Falwell Ministries a sticker that reads, “I Vote Christian.”<\/p>\n

Hmmm. Obviously that whole “no religious test” bit in the Constitution just passed by him under the radar.<\/p>\n

That said, I’d respect the man a lot more (even if I disagreed with him) if he just stuck by his guns. But, no …<\/p>\n

Falwell told The News & Advance of Lynchburg Tuesday that his statement was misunderstood. “What I was saying was for conservative Christian voters to vote their values, which are pro-life and pro-family,” Falwell said. “I had no intention of being anti-Jewish at all.”<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, a Jewish candidate were running for office, which would make “I Vote Christian” indicate pretty clearly how the “conservative Christian” should vote.<\/p>\n

If you want to say, “I Vote My Christian Values,”<\/em> hey, more power to you. I hope everyone votes their values, to some degree, and that’s certainly a valid political and social statement. <\/p>\n

Otherwise … you’re just being a religious bigot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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