Jesus Would Vote Democratic

[RedEarth]

Published on Thursday, August 18, 2005 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Jesus Would Vote Democratic
by Linda Valdez

The Democrats turn their lonely eyes to Hillary: Give us a message. Lead us home. Even for the Wonder Woman of the Party of JFK, this is no easy task. How to decry the excesses of the Bush administration and the GOP Congress without validating the label "The Party of No"?

How to lure enough GOP votes to win elections at a time when Democrat means liberal and liberal is a term of derision?
A Web site set up by a minister and his daughter (www.liveliberal.com) has an answer you can wear on a T-shirt: "Liberal is not a dirty word."

Retired Lutheran minister Daniel Bruch of Live Liberal gets right to the point: "I don't know if Jesus was the first liberal, but he was an important one."

Jesus taught love, tolerance, forgiveness, charity and humility. Don't take my word for it. Read the New Testament. It's not that long. And it's not about fire-and-brimstone fundamentalism, judging one another or dominating the Earth. It outlines a philosophy based on a really radical idea: Love your creator, love yourself, love your neighbor as yourself.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0818-30.htm

[Dez]

1. No, he'd vote Green Party

because they're not corrupted by corporate money.

[Mistress Quickly]

2. I've always thought Jesus

would be an independent, beholden to none except his Father. But what do I know?



:shrug:

[Dez]

3. Actually, he'd be Canadian, NOT

American, IMHO

[ismnotwasm]

4. He'd be down there with Cindy

Or healing the the uninsured homeless around the country. Or hangin' with the hookers on the strip. In the Oval office knocking over some tables. Ripping up the "no child left behind" act. Calling the Jerry Farwell's and the Oral Roberts and the Bennie Hinn's out on their shit.

[Igel]

5. He wouldn't vote.

Or run for office.

He'd probably not even register.

[Larkspur]

6. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is probably the best example of how

Jesus would react in modern times. If Jesus were alive today, he would be leading a movement challenging the pro-corporate agenda of Republicans and DLC Dems. He would call "Moral" Pharisees like Sen. Lieberman, the DLC clowns, and the entire Religious Right "a brood of vipers" and compare their morality and religion to tombs -- "white and beautiful on the outside but full of death and corruption on the inside."

Rev. King Jr. supported President Lyndon Johnson and Democrats because of Johnson's efforts to pass the Civil Rights legislation, but he eventually could not support Johnson over the Vietnam war.

Jesus would definitely meet with Cindy Sheehan in Crawford and demand Bush to come meet with her. He would also be opposed to the Iraq war because it was based upon deceit and delusions. And you know, Jesus is probably the one who inspired Cindy to protest in Crawford.