Wasn't that dude Jesus a liberal?
I had a teacher in high school religion class (Catholic school) who made more sense to me on this topic than anyone I have heard before or since.
He used to say that Jesus was conservative on some topics, like marriage which no man may put asunder, and pretty liberal on other stuff, such as whether you can eat food which was being sold at a discount because it had been part of an offering to pagan gods. (The J-Man said its cool, cause those gods don't even exist)
The point was that liberal/conservative is a modern construct which doesn't make sense when overlaid over a time and place where it doesn't apply.
These days, we aren't just being annoyed by people who are trying to pass themselves as religious leaders who claim to know more about spiritual matters than any mortal human could possibly know, if only we would give them more money.
Now people who are trying to pass themselves off as political leaders are claiming they have the inside track on The Correct Faith, if only we would give them more political power.
The Godly Rev. Wright is progressive.
Isn't that the guy who served in the US Marines and in the US Navy?
So explain the radical left wing preaching and belief in the victimization of the black people so they get more food stamps and welfare from us crackers.
Okay, get ready for an explanation; here it is;
that is the life story of this guy.
Look it up on wiki. He joined the marines first, then the navy. He was part of an elite group that worked with a US president and he later got a letter of commendation from President Johnson.
Then he got a lot of education, and eventually became the Rev Wright that we know today.
The guy is a real American, and a veteran, and as such is therefore entitled to hold any religious beliefs he wants. He is undeniably Christian and certainly not conservative, so Santorum is already wrong just with this one guy.
And just to be fair, I don't mind that some people believe that abortion, contraception, prenatal testing, and even sex itself is morally wrong, that is their right. My problem starts when these people try to encode their morality into law.
MacThulhu
I guess he forgot to ask his priest about the Catholic church's stand on biblical literalism.