Inaugural Post

I'm starting this thing, and I don't know the first thing about all of this except I like the concept. I've chosen where I'm coming from here in the spirit of the current times, feeling the importance of political awareness like so many others recently. So I'm an evangelical Christian who would love to get George Bush out of office. There have to be more like me. And now, for a brief anecdote:
I e-mailed my pastor recently to ask him not to distribute "voter guides" to our congregants. I noticed a story about this in the news, that the Christian Coalition would be sending those out this week. There's certainly a decidedly right wing slant at my church. This is where I'm coming from--theologically conservative and politically liberal. But the "W04" bumper stickers can be seen in my church parking lot. So he responded that he didn't intend on distributing these but oddly proceeded to say that these seem unbiased to him, unlike political statements within Black churches. I thought that perhaps I am inconsistent there. It doesn't so much bother me. But if it weren't for politics in Black churches, we would at least not have so much of the Civil Rights Movement if not a lot of the response to slavery. Further, the "voter guides" are so insidious because they masquerade as being unbiased. Also, coming from a way-too-white church, I feel a lot more comfortable critiquing what I know rather than a tradition I am outside of; I'm a little troubled that my pastor feels so comfortable doing so.
This is the sort of boring post you can come to expect of me (if there are any readers of these things). I think this is probably more for me than anything. But if anyone else does read this, for Christians, know that not everyone thinks conservatism best reflects our beliefs, and for non-Christians, don't lump us all under the Christian right. That's all.

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