I guess what he was trying to say was you can't be a Christian, and be a Liberal or a Progressive. The arrogance of trying to influence the vote, as a man of the cloth, and making sweeping, generalized judgements about a large swath of the population (and this from a man who especially ought to know better) is why Rev. Carlisle is the subject of our latest Call-Out.
Rev. Carlisle, I and my panel of friends beg to differ with you. Allow me to introduce the panel:
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Jimmy Carter
- Jesse Jackson
- Al Sharpton
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Corrie ten Boom
- Thomas Merton
- Reinhold Neibuhr (the author of the Serenity Prayer)
- Frederick Douglass
- Fred Rogers
- Susan B. Anthony
- Tommy Douglas (Baptist Minister, a Premier of Saskatchewan, and the developer of the Canadian model of Universal Health Care).
- Sojourner Truth
- Dorothy Day
This is just my short list. If I really wanted to get serious, believe me, my list would be a lot longer. See you on the other side, Reverend!
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