{"id":263,"date":"2007-03-12T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/03\/interesting-sam-brownback.html"},"modified":"2007-03-12T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T01:46:00","slug":"interesting-sam-brownback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/03\/interesting-sam-brownback.html","title":{"rendered":"The interesting Sam Brownback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a mistake to glance at Sen. Sam Brownback (R- KS) and his upstart campaign for president and think, &#8220;ahh, just another fundamentalist running for president.&#8221; Yes, he opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. But &#8211; and this is a real but &#8211; he pays far more than lip service to real compassion issues. Consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has worked with Sen. Ted Kennedy on behalf of refugees in Sudan and North Korea;<\/li>\n<li>His opposition to sex trafficking paired him with Senator Paul Wellstone, a liberal Minnesota Democrat who died in 2002;<\/li>\n<li>His focus on improving the prison system, lead him to spend the night in Angola State Prison in Louisiana soon after he announced his exploratory committee. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/12\/us\/politics\/12brownback.html\">A new story <\/a>out today highlights his blend of traditional social conservatism and new-wave social conservatism:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> \u201cI am pro-life and whole life,\u201d Mr. Brownback said Saturday, explaining that that meant fighting for the unborn but also for \u201cthe child in Darfur\u201d and \u201cpeople that are being trafficked out of North Korea.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He traces his interest in humanitarian causes to a cancer scare in the mid-1990s, when he was a member of the House of Representatives. With the prognosis uncertain, he said he awoke in the middle of the night tormented about his life\u2019s direction. Concluding that he was too consumed with worldly ambition, he said he crumpled his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 into a ball and threw it away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, it was a very symbolic moment,\u201d Mr. Brownback said in an interview. \u201cThat this is not what my life\u2019s about.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He lives it out at home too with a family that includes two adopted children from overseas. I like it when a politician forces people to raise an eyebrow in confusion and admiration. Sam Brownback does that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be a mistake to glance at Sen. Sam Brownback (R- KS) and his upstart campaign for president and think, &#8220;ahh, just another fundamentalist running for president.&#8221; Yes, he opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. 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