The Republican Party as Jordan
July 28, 2015
Back in 2015, I was once again struck by how fatuous were dismissals of Evangelical preference for GOP candidates. In a Louisville freebie rag, an ex-SBC pastor pulled out a old cliché, calling his old denomination “the Republican Party at prayer,” implying that we were captive to a political agenda. This above-it-all stance implied that voting patterns were a moral tossup, and that herd thinking had preempted godly discernment in the public square. But in this piece for the Southern Baptist Texan Online, I argue that there is good reason to prefer the more conservative party, albeit with reservations. I analogize from the case of Jordan, whose governmental and cultural features make it more attractive among such regional Muslim nations as Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
The article begins on page 17 (page 19 in the page-flip queue on this posting) of Issue #52, July 28, 2015.