The Christian Coalition (of Pat Robertson fame) announced today that their president elect, Rev. Joel C. Hunter of Longwood, FL, was resigning from his position.
Why?
Because, according to Rev. Hunter, the Coalition resisted his efforts to broaden its agenda to include reducing poverty and fighting global warming.
Yeah, Joel, we're not so much into the corporal works of mercy here. That's hippy shit.
The New York Times quotes Rev. Hunter as saying, "“When we really got down to it, they said: ‘This just isn’t for us. It won’t speak to our base, so we just can’t go there.’ ”
Nice. Way to try to accomplish even one of the things that Jesus preached about.
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Thanks for the comment. New blogger or just a new blog?
P.S. Joel Hunter is actually a Methodist ... so he would have never fit in with the CC people anyway. I can't believe he was even a member. Did the CC agenda suddenly just dawn on him?
I'm guessing the true story will come out in the next few weeks. Online chats with gay men? Bad divorce? Baby-sitter issues? Yeah, I'm a cynic.
New blogger. Closet journal-er (not journalist, right?) who decided to go public.
And yeah, JH was the odd man out over there. Never figured out how they elected him in the first place.
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