Luke Bruce Made Me Post This, part 2

So, post number two in my "Luke Bruce made me post this" series takes me to a little article I found today on Christianitytoday.com.

Stewart compared the importance of his home region in presidential elections with that of his guest, Newt Gingrich. "I'm from the Northeast," he said. "We used to be important."

Let me play Stewart to Christianity Today's Gingrich: "I'm a mainline Protestant. We used to be important." Though we Methodists boasted allegiance from three of the four members of the ballot in 2004's presidential election, this seems to have been more a cultural accretion than anything else. The one whose faith mattered—President Bush—has made a career out of his fluency in speaking evangelicals' language. The Republican Party has courted evangelicals long enough and well enough to have almost an insurmountable majority in Congress and, soon, in the Supreme Court as well. Congratulations, evangelicals: You're in charge.

So, I probably wouldn't agree with this guy if I sat down and chatted with him. I'm pretty sure evangelicals aren't holding the general populace hostage by their votes. But you know, he's got to be spot on when he says "Political power is a good deal more transient than the things we both hold most dear." It's pretty easy to trade our future hope for an apparent earthly hope that never delivers. Whether it's Canadian politics or American, ultimately it's still politics.