Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Re: Fred Thompson Not Regularly Going to Church [Seth Leibsohn]
Going to church matters, of course it does. I don't think it matters much, nor should it, in evaluating a candidate, not more than 10 other things that should matter more from where one stands on issues, voting records, clients, and the like. Here's the test: Assume you are a social-values voter, perhaps a religious social values voter, and it's 1980 and all you knew of the two major candidates was that one was from the South, married to the same woman all his life, considered himself "born again," and was a regular church going member of the Baptist church whose sister did evangelical work while the other was a divorced, non-church going former actor who lived in California. Okay, given that's all you know, where's your vote going?
09/12 03:48 PM
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