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ringmastery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:17 AM
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Evangelicals frustrated by Bush
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040219-115609-3712r.htm

President Bush left several million evangelical voters "on the table" four years ago and again is having trouble energizing Christian conservatives, prominent leaders on the religious right say.
"It's not just economic conservatives upset by runaway federal spending that he's having trouble with. I think his biggest problem will be social conservatives who are not motivated to work for the ticket and to ensure their fellow Christians get to the polling booth," said Robert H. Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute.
"If there is a rerun of 2000, when an estimated 6 million fewer evangelical Christians voted than in the pivotal year of 1994, then the Bush ticket will be in trouble, especially if there is no Nader alternative to draw Democratic votes away from the Democratic candidate," added Mr. Knight, whose organization is an affiliate of Concerned Women for America (CWA).
Their list of grievances is long, but right now social conservatives are mad over what many consider the president's failure to strongly condemn illegal homosexual "marriages" being performed in San Francisco under the authority of Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:21 AM
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1. Are they angry that public witch-burnings are not yet shown on Fox?
Or is the continued availability of oral contraception in drug stores across the land the burr under their saddles?

What's upset the holy rollers now - evolution? Plate tectonics? Sec-yoo-lur hyoo-munizm? Bush's failure to take a strong stand against Copernican heresy?

Really, what is it this time?
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:21 AM
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2. Leave it to the Concerned Women fro America...
to let a man do their talking for them.
LOL!

Sounds like they could be convinced that a vote for * is a vote against God.

hhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:26 AM
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5. LOL!!
Nice to know the females members of CWA know their place.
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onebigbadwulf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:24 AM
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3. Civil Unions don't show enough hate for gays
and apparently Bush is in favor of civil unions
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:25 AM
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4. "president's failure to strongly condemn illegal homosexual 'marriages'"
Jesus H. Christ on a crutch. What do they want, that W orders San Francisco nuked???

(Silly me, of course they do)
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:29 AM
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6. I am quite curious as to what Pat Robertson's remarks
might be if ** is not re-elected, ...because, apparently,, the "Big Dude upstairs' told Pat .................
nothing against Xtians, but, what I don't understand is that ..why, after 2000 years, there are still so many non-Christians?
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ibegurpard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 10:31 AM
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7. this is bullshit
they're just making a little noise to make sure that middle American is reassured that the chimp is not a right wing fundie fanatic.
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MoonAndSun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-20-04 11:09 AM
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8. Yes, this is just showing middle America that bush* is not really
a rightwing fundie, but a compassionate conservative. These xtians fundies will vote for bush* even if they have pictures of him in his Skull & Bones coffin naked as a jaybird.:puke:
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