Religious Left

By Wy Spano, The Star Tribune Menneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota The Republican Party needs some serious changing. You might not agree with me that Republicans are going to lose huge in the upcoming election — though trust me, they are — but you do have to agree, if you read the polls, that young people are trending overwhelmingly toward Democrats. Many of the young people see the Republican Party as holding positions that make no sense to them, like being antigay and opposing stem-cell research and supporting creationism. They conclude that the party supports these things because a small but powerful group in the party insists on them, not because most people would, or could, agree with them. An antigay party is particularly troublesome to the young. Most of them have a friend, family member, coworker or colleague who’s gay, none of whom has ever threatened their own marriages or sexuality. full article

Stuart Shepard is the managing editor at CitizenLink. CitizenLink is a registered trademark of Focus on the Family. In the video Stuart Shepard asked members to pray for torrential rain to drown out Obama's nomination at the Democratic Convention that is to be held at Invesco Field at Mile High, Colorado on August 24, 2008. Stuart Shepard: " Would it be wrong to ask people pray for rain? Okay, not just rain -- abundant rain, torrential rain.... 'Why would I pray for that?' Well, I'm still pro life, and I'm still in favor of marriage as being between one man and one woman. And I would like the next president who will select justices for the next Supreme Court to agree. So, I'm praying for unexpected, unanticipated, unforecasted rain that starts two minutes before the speech is set to begin. '' Although the video has been removed, as of this moment we can still see the text in a google cache version of the webpage: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache...

There is a wonderful guest commentary, on the Greely Tribune , written by Jonathan Bellman (a professor of music at the University of Northern Colorado). Here's a couple excerpts: We listen, yet we don’t object; when we don’t object, we tacitly endorse The real demonization of the word “liberal” dates from Reagan’s first presidential campaign against Jimmy Carter. The term was misapplied, but Republican strategists knew a winning strategy when they saw one, and liberal as an evil epithet — entirely decoupled from any real meaning it previously had — has for decades been routinely applied to anyone who frightens the social absolutists among us. Here in Greeley, bumper stickers say, “A vote for the Democratic Party is a vote for radical Islam,” and I saw a well-crafted, homemade sign on a pickup truck that read “Democrats=Defilement.” Editorialists and letter-writers to The Tribune vilify not only political liberals but also religious liberals: those who refuse to subscribe to the da...

It seems to me there is a distinction between Religious affiliation and Political affiliation. It also seems many blur the distinction (ie: websites with a similar name to this one). A "Religious left person" is not required to be Republican. I submit, there are many Democrats with "religious left" thinking as well as other political affiliations.