Front Page in The Oregonian re: Evangelicals Against War

[oregonjen]

Suzanne Brownlow shivers on the Interstate 205 overpass as a cutting wind whips her sign: "Honk to End the War." Her weekly demonstration is the latest turn in a fractious journey that has taken the evangelical Christian mother from protesting abortion clinics to protesting the war in Iraq.

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"This war has challenged their confidence in the party," says Tony Campolo, an evangelical Baptist minister who lectures across the country on social issues. "Add to that that they feel the Republicans have betrayed them on the abortion issue," says the prolific author and frequent talk-show guest, "and you are beginning to see signs of a rebellion."

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Since their son deployed last fall to Iraq, his parents say he has not objected to their anti-war efforts.

Although many churchgoers are active against the war, the Brownlows say they still feel self-conscious sharing their views with their Christian friends, or even praying at their Damascus church for their son's platoon. People have told them that freedom isn't free or that they must support the troops.
"As if to say that by allowing our sons and daughters to languish in a vast Iraqi shooting gallery," Dave Brownlow says, "we are somehow supporting them."
"We really don't fit anywhere," Suzanne Brownlow says. "All our friends are pro-war and think we are heretics for talking against the president."


More at: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1173758150100560.xml&coll=7

[bobbolink]

1. Here's to you, Suzanne!

:pals:

PEACE....

[stevedeshazer]

2. That's exactly what is great about Oregon

Even the right wingers here are starting to get it, at least as far as the Bush Crime Family is concerned. Oregon has a strong contrarian streak from left to right and top to bottom.

[bobbolink]

3. the evangelicals are "getting it" all over....

Did you see Moyer's "Is God Green?"

Give it a look-see...

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/green/index.html

[stevedeshazer]

4. Thanks

Saved for later!

[bobbolink]

5. .

:toast:

[Straight Shooter]

6. What a crock, "freedom isn't free." Freedom most certainly *is* free.

At least it is according to bush, who said so himself, when he said it's a gift from God.

I've got to get back to work or I'd find a source for that quote.

But, anyhoo, freedom most certainly is free, no matter how you slice it or dice it. "Liberty isn't free" just doesn't have quite the bumper sticker appeal to the bushies, though, does it? ;)

[stevedeshazer]

7. When a chickenhawk says, "freedom isn't free",

It means that someone else has to pay for it.

[Straight Shooter]

8. Exactly.

Now, *that* would make a great bumper sticker. :thumbsup: