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This was a good letter, and a good start at a conversation.
I'm a white male, and have been a Bible-believing Evangelical for four decades. Missed voting for Nixon by one month (too young) and voted the straight Republican ticket all those years. Served in the Republican Party as an elected official (minor), walked and canvassed the district, elected to the state convention for the national election of 1992. Encouraged people to vote Republican, hosted open community meetings to explain Republican principles. Proud of my work, I was.
I voted for Obama this time, and I voted a near straight Democratic Party ticket. And I don't intend to vote for another Republican.
I'll explain in my reply.
I am not writing this letter to accuse but rather to advance understanding. And even though I am white, I am not writing as an outsider but as a fellow evangelical, part of the same spiritual family. May I pose some candid questions?
Are you guilty, on any level, of blind allegiance to the Democratic party? And, on Election Day, did any of you compromise your convictions out of racial solidarity?
I have been very open in my criticism of white evangelicals, pointing out how we often put our trust in the Republican party and how we look to the latest...
As a Christian believer it got too much for me that my friends and my church and my circle of acquaintances on the conservative side spouted this nonsense, mostly when they thought it was safe, thinking I supported their views.
I don't.
Mr. Obama is the lawfully elected President of the United States, a legal citizen, and a representative of all that's good about America.
I got tired of the undercurrent of racism that's endemic to my party. I left it.
I got tired of the constant sneers about queers and gays and lesbians, as if they are half-Americans. (cont)
I left the party because the Republicans just can't imagine a country that includes non-whites.
This letter is a great start to the conversation we need to have about the way white Americans exclude non-white Americans, and how white Christians don't understand their black Christian family.
We need to listen to those we think are opposing us. It might be that they share more than we know, and it might be that _we_ are wrong about what we think.
http://www.therightperspective.org/2012/04/15/obama-lawyer-admits-birth-certificate-is-a-forgery/