Dear Andrew (part two)

[beg pardon for not reponding here to Andrew Part 2] David: Just wondering if you'd heard of the Emergent Church Network, an evangelical movement that strives among other things to break the popular association between "evangelical" and "politically conservative". I hadn't heard of it before the linked story was broadcast locally on Minnesota Punlic Radio.

Please excuse me for being off-topic. I couldn't figure out your email address.
I found your Charlie Rose appearance very moving for your commitment to the poor and the strength of your beliefs. Best wishes.
I'm a liberal Democrat.

I'm another "liberal" , but not necessarily a Democrat and I have really been intrigued by the responses to your book. I have also been a "born-again" (in the Bibical sense, not the fundamentalist sense) for some years. I have been totally unsuccessful in finding a church because they all seem to be so political and un-Christian, as I understand what it is to be Christian. And then your book comes along and I find there are a lot of us. And also a lot of dogmatic "Christians" who feel the need to rip you. So it seems there are great divides between people who truly strive to follow Christ and those who just think going to church on Sunday is a sacrifice to some God they must obey. WE have all done mean and hateful things and some of us come to Christ on our knees out of a recongnition that that is not the kind of people we want to be. Often a choice born out of pain and shame. What amazes me is the sort of mysterious way Christ takes the meanness out of us when we truly want it to be gone. Sorry to ramble, just want to thank you for brining this sort of discussion to such a public forum.

David, I have heard/seen you on NPR, Comedy Central and several other media and I think very highly of your views. One aspect puzzles me though: how an abortion led you to work for political right-to-life causes. How can you work to deprive others of the freedom you and your girlfriend exercised when faced with an unwanted pregnancy? This seems somehow hypocritical to me. I can understand the emotional trauma and wanting to channel your energies in a direction you deem moral, but wouldn't those energies have been more appropriately devoted to 1) PERSONALLY resolving never to have another abortion in any future relationship and 2) working to educate as many people as possible on the possibilities of completing the pregnancy, raising children, choosing adoption etc. Choosing to work politically to ban individual freedom seems counter to many of the conservative views you espouse. I would love to hear your perspective on this.

Has David Kuo spoken with Cal Thomas about their shared experiences with politicians? If my memory serves me correctly, Cal had developed similar opinions after Reagan/Bush41 as David has after Bush43. Where is the Protestant voice regarding illegal immigration? I've heard some compassionate rhetoric from Catholic clergy in California, but the Protestants are silent. Is this a repeat of the 1960's civil rights movement when white Protestants were MIA?