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http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/christian-coalition-president-resigns.html

hristian Coalition president resigns over agenda dispute
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The president-elect of the Christian Coalition of America has resigned his post Monday, citing a difference in philosophy over which issues the conservative Christian organization should embrace.

Rev. Joel C. Hunter, currently the senior pastor of the Northland Church in Longwood, Florida, was to assume the presidency in January. But Hunter said CCA leaders resisted his calls to expand their issue base.

"I wanted to expand the issues from only moral ones -- such as opposing abortion and redefining marriage -- to include compassion issues such as poverty, justice, and creation care," Hunter said in a statement. 'We need to care as much for the vulnerable outside the womb as inside the womb."

Hunter also said he wanted to focus on rebuilding the CCA's once powerful grassroots network -- an appeal he says board members rejected.

"After initial willingness to consider these changes, the board of the CCA decided, 'that is fine, but that is not who we are,'" Hunter said.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Christ's message one of compassion? Wasn't compassion, aid for the impoverished, and reaching out to those in some sort of need pushed much more heavily than condemning people for their actions?

I don't agree with the more moralistic agenda, but at least this guy was trying to do some real good, right? But that's just not what the "Christian" Coalition is all about, apparently.

*Sigh* Sometimes, I think people just miss the point. What do you think?

Side bar: And what the heck is "creation care"? Is that a misprint?

Creation care is Christian environmentalism.

Also didn't Jesus mainly talk about justice and compassion for the poor? I don't remember him even mentioning abortion or gays in the bible.

This is Neo Christianity, more concerned with telling people what they can't do than, well, anything.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Christ's message one of compassion? Wasn't compassion, aid for the impoverished, and reaching out to those in some sort of need pushed much more heavily than condemning people for their actions?

I don't agree with the more moralistic agenda, but at least this guy was trying to do some real good, right? But that's just not what the "Christian" Coalition is all about, apparently.

*Sigh* Sometimes, I think people just miss the point. What do you think?

Side bar: And what the heck is "creation care"? Is that a misprint?

Sounds to me like that coalition are little more than a bunch of money-grabbing people who like making women and gay people suffer - if that was not the case then, as genuine Christians, they would have embraced helping people

The Christian Coalition always has been, and always will be a political action committee working towards the goal of turning the United States into a Protestant theocracy complete with invasion of privacy.

In other words, they're the people who want Jesusland to become a reality.

the CC is all about hate and stuff....I learned that a long time ago when they came to my church to tell us it was our "Christian duty" to stamp out secular music (this was back in the early 80's)

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/11/christian-coalition-president-resigns.html



Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Christ's message one of compassion? Wasn't compassion, aid for the impoverished, and reaching out to those in some sort of need pushed much more heavily than condemning people for their actions?

I don't agree with the more moralistic agenda, but at least this guy was trying to do some real good, right? But that's just not what the "Christian" Coalition is all about, apparently.

*Sigh* Sometimes, I think people just miss the point. What do you think?

Side bar: And what the heck is "creation care"? Is that a misprint?

I always thought Christianity was supposed to be primarily about love. Maybe I'm simplistic, but Jesus gives two commandments as important - and both are about love.

The fact that love seems to have such a low priority in the canon of many modern Christians has been a constant confusion to me.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Christ's message one of compassion? Wasn't compassion, aid for the impoverished, and reaching out to those in some sort of need pushed much more heavily than condemning people for their actions?

I don't agree with the more moralistic agenda, but at least this guy was trying to do some real good, right? But that's just not what the "Christian" Coalition is all about, apparently.

*Sigh* Sometimes, I think people just miss the point. What do you think?

Side bar: And what the heck is "creation care"? Is that a misprint?

What assholes, how I hate them.

The way I see it, the Christian Coalition has become more a political organization than a religious one. Since it is largely Republican, and the Republicans seem to care more about divisive morality issues than about aiding the poor, the Coalition drops those aims. It's sad to say, but it seems that the leaders of the Christian Right care more about being in line with conservative values more than following their own religious ideals.

I recognize that the CC isn't exactly following Christ's example - and, to my knowledge, never have. I just think that I'd respect them quite a bit more, even in their more moralistic crusades, if they seemed to at least make an effort to do so. :(

It would be confusing if a group simultaneously preached compassion and intolerance.

I don't blame the CCA, they are just trying to keep their message unblurred, the first rule of PR.

I would like to stress that this is an AMERICAN christian group only, and that as a concerned British Christian, I will be doing all I can to see that this man does not have his calls for a widening base of Christian issues go unheeded

Well, you have to remember that organizations like this don't want to affect the right of their members to be as wasteful and materialistic as possible. After all, why would you want to insult Mammon when he's given you so much in the first place?

Except fig trees, no compassion for them.

Jesus was obviously misguided about what his message was. I for one am very glad the CCA board has clarified it.