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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Predictably Strother

And I knew you would try to diminish the fact that these are the very same people who released a statement last week decrying the appointment of Samuel Alito to the SCOTUS and pleading with the political forces of this country to keep abortions "safe and legal" and to protect homosexuals' "right" to get married. And you say I'm predictable.

Those facts are not unrelated as you would like our readers to believe. These groups have an organized agenda: to promote an extreme leftist agenda while hiding under the hemline of organized "Christianity." The content of their propaganda cannot be rationally separated from their acknowledged agenda. Indeed, their propaganda on the war, the environment, and socialism can be rejected outright because they are the selfsame people who support abortion and homosexuality, extreme physical sins that cannot be justified under any legitimate teaching of Christianity. They seek to gain credibility by hiding behind the church, so it follows that their credibility is nullified as soon as their apostasy is exposed.

As well, predictably, you managed to miss the most important facet of the story which, surprisingly enough, the AP did report:

The Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, the moderator for the U.S. group of WCC members, said that the letter was backed by the leaders of the churches but was not cleared by lower-level bodies. He predicted friction within congregations about the tone of the message.

Kishkovsky is soft-peddling. I predict friction in the lower organizations over the content of the message. And you can take that one to the bank.

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