Sunday, November 10, 2019

Quote of the Day (Charles Peters, on Liberal Outreach to Evangelicals)


“[T]ake another group: the evangelicals. At least a good number of them must surely be troubled by the un-Christian behavior of Donald Trump. Why don’t liberals use religion to sell their policy proposals? After all, most liberal programs are expressions of the Golden Rule. I was impressed by how successful Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. were in using Christianity to advance their causes—and disturbed that so many of my smart friends seem embarrassed when I describe that success and urge that the approach be emulated to win support for everything from the humane treatment of immigrants to fair wages for workers.”Charles Peters, “Tilting at Windmills,” Washington Monthly, November-December 2019

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