Colorado Christian Crackup
There are rumblings amongst the faithful.
Cara DeGette reports on the tensions being created by this year's CD-5 race, and notes:
A few weeks ago, the Christian Coalition of Colorado sent out a glossy mailer accusing candidates Jeff Crank and Lionel Rivera as being in bed with the "homosexual agenda." (The group's president, Chuck Gosnell, supports Doug Lamborn for Congress.)I hope the voters in CD-5 remember the actions these sanctiminious leaders when it comes time to vote for our new congressman. It really is embarassing: the hypocrisy, the lies and the slanders they are dealing in.
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[T]he mailer included a portion of a 2003 Independent news story about that year's Colorado Springs City Council race. The story noted that the Chamber of Commerce, whom Crank worked for at the time, had endorsed Richard Skorman, a local business owner and longtime gay-rights advocate.
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Neither Crank nor Rivera got a laugh out of it. And neither did Ted Haggard, the pastor at New Life Church, which, with 14,000 members, is the largest in the state. When he delivered his sermon on Sunday, July 23, Haggard included some fire-and-brimstone opinions about the attack mailer. Specifically, he lambasted the Christian Coalition for misrepresenting the Independent as part of its campaign.
And oh, by the way, they all call themselves Christians.
posted by Zappatero @ 7:24 AM
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Zappatero wrote:
I hope the voters in CD-5 remember the actions these sanctiminious leaders when it comes time to vote for our new congressman. It really is embarassing: the hypocrisy, the lies and the slanders they are dealing in.
Just because I do not know if the sanctimonious Zappatero calls himself a Christian does not prevent me from lumping Z in with other hypocrites who try to distract people from seeing the bigger picture, and the bigger truth it represents, with hist distractive divisive bombast.
Do the candidates in question deny the allegations? The allegations could be true, maybe the candidates are proud of their stance.
What is the voting record of each candidate?
I find it interesting that there is a division between the Christian Coalition of Colorado and the pastor of New Life Church. What denomination does Ted Haggard belong to? What beliefs does he subscribe to? What type of church does he lead?
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