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november 05, 2004
Evangeliska kristna och homofobi stoppade Kerry
Det var miljoner evangeliska kristna [se nedan] röster som avgjorde valet. Människor som i förra valet avstod från att rösta, men som röstade i år bland annat på grund av omröstningarna om att förbjuda giftermål mellan homosexuella. Detta enligt Philip James, en före detta politisk strateg i det demokratiska partiet, som skriver följande i en artikel i The Guardian:
Over one-fifth of everyone who voted was a self-described evangelical. Evangelicals have been around in US politics for decades, but this year they really came of age as a decisive factor. Bush won their vote by a crushing margin, and they turned out for him in greater numbers than ever before. Democrats saw this coming but they weren't prepared for the intensity.
One thing that brought evangelicals out in force was an amendment to ban gay marriage. Kerry did better in all the battleground states where marriage amendments weren't on the ballot. It was in Ohio, and that alone could have been the difference.
Vallokalsundersökningar visar också att 80 proocent av de som röstat är troende kristna som regelbundet går i kyrkan. James menar att den annan anledning till att Kerry tappade röster var att han aldrig såg riktigt bekväm ut vid sina kyrkobesök:
The few times that Kerry attended Southern Baptist churches on the campaign trail, he looked like a tourist in Harlem. The services appeared to pique his interest as they would an anthropologist. He was never an actual participant.
[not] Så vad är en evangelisk kristen? En av definitionerna på Google säger:
An evangelical is any Christian who holds historically orthodox or conservative theological views. In common usage, the term applies to western Christians outside the Roman Catholic Church. ... Some, but not all evangelicals are fundamentalists.
Skrivet av Pierre den november 5, 2004 06:23 EM
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