This morning I was reading Sojourners’ February issue… Inside is an excerpt from Jim Wallis’ new book entitled, “God’s Politics: Why the Right has it Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get it.”
He synthesizes the divisions in this country as not simply blue and red, but more across the spectrum. There are those who are truly red, and those who are truly blue, the leftists and the rightists. And there are the people in the middle, so talked about in the recent election — who didn’t know what to do, how to vote — and theoretically, according to much of the media, decided to vote based on ‘moral values.’ Wallis gives props to a fourth group, which is the group I find myself in.
I am of very liberal politics when it comes to poverty, social justice, pacifism and war, oppression, the environment. And I am of very conservative values: I value life above all else, I value love over trysts, I rarely take foreign substances into my body… The people on the left don’t understand me — including my colleagues, friends, my family — because of my Christian ‘moral values’, and the people on the right don’t understand the bumper stickers on the back of my car that prominently say, “Bush ‘04 Eat the Poor,” and “God is not a Republican or a Democrat.” (They often yell out the window, or flash me the finger, or pass me across the double yellow line, albeit my old van can’t get up to speed too efficiently any more either)
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