Even More Bad News for the GOP "US evangelicals question Republican ties" (BBC) [View all]

[Justin_Beach]

Sorta hoped/suspected that something like this was coming. It appears that after the defeat of the Republican party (particularly the defeat of the Republican Party on socially conservative issues), Evangelical leaders are questioning

1) Their ties to the Republican Party
2) Whether they should be in politics at all

and

3) Whether they should focus more on other "Christian" issues such as social justice:

From the BBC:

After an election where conservative social causes failed to convince voters, evangelical Christians are pondering their relationship with the Republican party...

"In the 2000 decade, the term "evangelical Christian" in America became associated with a political position rather than a theological position," says Pastor Rick Warren, founder of the Saddleback megachurch, in an interview with BBC World Service's World Update programme.

"At that time, George Bush was president, he was a well-known evangelical. People assumed if you're an evangelical, then you support everything that George Bush supports whether it's war in Iraq, or anything else. That's nonsense."

To Warren, associating with politics risks alienating potential members of the church.