What Southern Baptists were told about religious right's political future
Holly Meyer
7:04 p.m. CDT
August 27, 2016
Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton’s successful bids for their party’s presidential nominations have shown that conservative Christians can no longer afford to be the cheapest date in American politics if they want to protect religious liberty, says conservative commentator David French.
The National Review staff writer, who almost joined the 2016 presidential race as the anti-Trump candidate, called this year’s election cycle a "colossal, miserable, disgusting failure” before explaining to attendees at a Southern Baptist conference how the religious right can improve the political culture it helped shatter.
“It’s bad, but in American history it’s been worse,” French said. “In American history when it's been a lot do you know who has helped bring America back? ... It’s been courageous men and women empowered by the spirit of the living God — that’s what brings us back. It's not politics.”
While the Columbia resident dissected how the election wound up in such a gloomy state, he also laid out a path for social conservatives Saturday at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s post conference in Nashville. The morning event delved into the presidential election, religious liberty and the future of the church.
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:
how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were
Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It
might be the pate of a politician, which this ass
now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God,
might it not?
Hamlet, Act V, Scene !, Lines 71 - 75
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