In an ostensibly conciliatory commentary about the need to
transcend "partisan divisiveness" and "incivility," Tom
Krattenmaker tars conservative Christians engaged in the public
square as "evangelical kingmakers," "mean-spirited, truth
demolishing," "partisan hacks" who are "fixated on
politics." (By significant contrast, an abortion lobbyist is a
"fighter for women's reproductive rights.")
Mr. Krattenmaker rightly advocates that even in the barroom-brawl
world of politics, Christians should remain Christ-like: charitable, humble,
temperate, truthful, forgiving. Yet the Prince of Peace also intriguingly
proclaimed that He "did not come to bring peace, but
a sword."
Political and faith leaders throughout history such as Abraham
Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn have
fought for social justice and mercy by wielding a sharp-edged separation of
good and evil, a clear exposition of truth versus deception. The policy stances
our nation takes on issues like abortion, human trafficking, assisted suicide
and war accommodate no middle ground or prevarication; such policies lead to
either life or death, freedom or slavery for millions of individuals.
Civility in dialogue, yes. Compromise on principle, no.
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