James Dobson does not speak for me.
He does not speak for many evangelicals, believe it or not. And many evangelicals like myself are eager to embrace a party of morality. A party that genuinely wants to reduce abortions, not use it as a political tool to "drive up the base".
Democrats once embraced evangelicals.
Jimmy Carter was the first "born again" Christian in the White House.
Billy Graham, the leader of the modern evangelical movement is a Democrat himself.
But something has been lost in the past 28 years.
We want to blame Karl Rove, Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson.
But instead of blaming, why not ask evangelicals themselves? The ones that don't fall in lock-step with these "agents of intolerance", to quote Sen. John McCain.
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