{"id":293,"date":"2008-02-05T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/02\/pro-life-democr.html"},"modified":"2008-02-05T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T02:00:00","slug":"pro-life-democr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/02\/pro-life-democr.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Life Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wrongonrace\"<\/a>Here’s some food for thought during this political season.<\/p>\n

There’s a new book out called Wrong on Race:  The Democratic Party’s Buried Past.<\/em>  It is a history of how, in general, the Democratic part was on the wrong side of slavery and civil rights.  Yet, today, many African-Americans are Democrats.  <\/p>\n

Political partys can change?  Each party has it’s blind spots that don’t always have to be.<\/p>\n

This has me thinking…just because the Dem’s are wrong on abortion<\/em> (in my humble opinion), doesn’t mean that it always must be.  Can you envison a day when both the Republicans AND Democrats are for the protection of the unborn?<\/p>\n

There is a group of people who believe that it can happen check out www.democratsforlife.org<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s some food for thought during this political season. There’s a new book out called Wrong on Race:  The Democratic Party’s Buried Past.  It is a history of how, in general, the Democratic part was on the wrong side of slavery and civil rights.  Yet, today, many African-Americans are Democrats.  Political partys can change?  Each…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"\nPro-Life Democrats? - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/02\/pro-life-democr.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro-Life Democrats? - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here’s some food for thought during this political season. 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys & 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). Friend of God...Passionate about the Body of Christ...Lover of this thing called jazz! 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