{"id":8167,"date":"2004-01-14T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/this_i_havent_followed.html"},"modified":"2004-01-14T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T09:39:10","slug":"this_i_havent_followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/01\/this_i_havent_followed.html","title":{"rendered":"This I haven’t followed"},"content":{"rendered":"

…closely enough , but this JWR piece gives me an opportune moment to do so:<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Weyrich. Gary Bauer. Linda Chavez. Bill Donahue. Marc Gellman. Bailey Smith.<\/p>\n

Five Christians, one Jew. All nationally known. Weyrich is CEO of the Free Congress Foundation, helped found the Moral Majority; Bauer. a former Presidential candidate, Chavez, a former Reagan administration official, Gelllman the Jewish half of TV’s “God Squad,” Donahue is the feisty critic of anti-Catholic bias, and Bailey Smith, a former Southern Baptist convention president who made headlines years ago for an anti-Semitic remark that he has long since retracted. <\/p>\n

\nThey are the true defenders of Judeo-Christian values. Now in light of the astounding front page story in today’s Washington Post, they are prophets with honor. <\/p>\n

\nBauer et al were the few religious conservatives who objected to the queer spectacle of their fellow religious conservatives determination to work alongside a reputed terrorist-friendly Islamic group in order to oppose gay marriage<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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