Ken Blackwell: “Social Conservatives Cast a Deep Footprint”
From Ken Blackwell’s latest column on Townhall.com, “Social Conservatives Cast a Deep Footprint”:
For months, the political chattering class has delighted in what they perceive as the crumbling of the powerful social conservative coalition. The New York Times, always looking to denigrate social conservatives, has reported on “The Evangelical Crackup” and the “deep divide in the Christian conservative movement.”
Some conservatives even have echoed the Times’ premise. They were conservatives, but they were not evangelical Christian conservatives. Yet, they waxed eloquent about the thinking of conservative Christians, some going as far as saying that evangelicals had finally “grown up” or “matured” in their judgment. Such statements reek of condescension.
They don’t seem to understand the movement or its leaders. And they shouldn’t look to the New York Times for insight.
