Tea parties stir evangelicals' fears

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Tea parties stir evangelicals' fears

By BEN SMITH | 3/12/10 5:01 AM EST


The rise of a new conservative grass roots fueled by a secular revulsion at government spending is stirring fears among leaders of the old conservative grass roots, the evangelical Christian right.

A reeling economy and the massive bank bailout and stimulus plan were the triggers for a resurgence in support for the Republican Party and the rise of the tea party movement. But they’ve also banished the social issues that are the focus of many evangelical Christians to the background.

And while health care legislation has brought social and economic conservatives together to fight government funding of abortion, some social conservative leaders have begun to express concern that tea party leaders don’t care about their issues, while others object to the personal vitriol against President Barack Obama, whose personal conduct many conservative Christians applaud.

“There’s a libertarian streak in the tea party movement that concerns me as a cultural conservative,” said Bryan Fischer, director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at the American Family Association. “The tea party movement needs to insist that candidates believe in the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage.”

“As far as I can tell {the tea party movement} has a politics that’s irreligious. I can’t see how some of my fellow conservatives identify with it,” said Richard Cizik, who broke with a major evangelical group over his support for government action on climate change, but who remains largely in line with the Christian right on social issues. “The younger Evangelicals who I interact with are largely turned off by the tea party movement — by the incivility, the name-calling, the pathos of politics.”

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[Mari333]

1. buy some popcorn and watch the fight

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2. Good, further fracturing on the right makes me happy

Let the religious loons and the tea party whackos duke it out.

Preferably to the death. Maybe they can bring back dueling or something.

[BR_Parkway]

3. Lions? Or stoning, I'm sure there's a verse that could be found to support

stoning of your political opponents somewhere

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4. Lions, I like it

Then we can put it on NatGeo or Disocovery channel. Fundies vs fiscal conservatives vs large cats.

[KharmaTrain]

5. It's Also About The Benjamins...

Many ministries are suffering as that big golden trough has gone dry. It was a major reason Fecal on your family dumped James Dobson...he just wasn't bringing in the coin. Many of these ministries got fat on the hog financially and politically and the financial downturn has hit them hard and they haven't blamed this administration for this problem, but the rushpublicans. Over the boooosh years they developed a real bad taste in their mouth as they saw their "christian" president ignore them; they got precious little and felt their votes were being taken for granted. That bad taste still remains...especially when their candidate, Hucklenutz got the bums rush in the '08 primaries.

The tea partiers aren't christians...they're a distraction for attention and money. The tea partiers are getting all the buzz and funnelling precious money away.

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[atreides1]

6. "...believe in the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage.”

Abortion and Gay marriage evil. War and divorce okay.

Sanctity of life and marriage my ass!!!