God's Vote
| 12:57 UK time, Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Very engaging response to the place of religion in the US election from Amy Sullivan. Her new book, only published in the US at the moment, tries to challenge the conventional wisdom that evangelical Christians are all Republicans.
As she says in an interview in Salon, she was inspired by an incident in church when the pastor said his congregation would have to vote Republican "to be in line with God's wishes." As a Democrat, and a believing Christian, she felt hijacked.
Benazir Bhutto felt her Islamic faith was being hijacked by extremists, too, as we heard a few days ago from her co-author.
It would be intriguing to hear from the 'hijackers' how they are getting such precise instructions from their heavenly HQ.
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