No kidding? The Beatitudes are not the Gospel? Is that why my New Testament has all those other pages? Am I going to have to read them *all*? Really?
I find that passage particularly important, as it's a clear example of Christ's teaching, direct to the people, with direct speech and limited analogy but it's certainly not the whole Gospel, so I used the phrase "from sources like..."
The fact is, many Liberals I know are also very religious people and the idea that a "Christian" could get up in front of people and preach FOR war is something they find appalling.
And the question remains, what about Mac Hammond? Where's the outcry there? Where's the ACTION to revoke his T-E status? He was clearly out-of-bounds and had been previously warned.
Reverend Bacon, (Episcoplian, Pasadena, thanks, FH, for locating that), was discussing Christian perspective on the issues, which is permitted, not endorsing candidates and did not step over but the IRS investigated, promptly and then lingeringly, before finally issuing a confusing message that means, "We've got our orders from above but we can't make this one stick." Where's the outcry over the IRS' clearly political agenda? The Bush Administration favors only a select view of Christianity.
It's a sad day in the US when people can't trust government agencies to treat them fairly because they hold political views in opposition to the Administration's. This is like reviving Nixon's "Enemies List," except Nixon surrounded himself, mostly, with principled people.