People are finally getting it. The narrowly focused and narrow-minded Christian Coaltion is starting to fragment as members of the group try to diversify their positions and are denied. For years, the Christian Coalition has been laser-beam focused on opposing gay marriage and abortion, but now some members are trying to expand towards issues like helping the environment and helping the poor. The discord over the change in direction has caused four states to split away from the main group and the incoming president to resign.
"Christian Coalition president-elect resigns over group’s narrow focus" from http://washblade.com/2006/12-1/news/religion/ribs.cfm
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The reverend elected to take over as president of the Christian Coalition of America said he will not assume the role because of differences in philosophy. Rev. Joel Hunter, of Northland: A Church Distributed, a Longwood, Fla., church, said last week that the national group would not let him expand the organization’s agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage. This is the latest setback for the group founded in 1989 by religious broadcaster Rev. Pat Robertson. Four states — Georgia, Alabama, Iowa and Ohio — have decided to split from the group over concerns it is changing direction on issues like the minimum wage, the environment and internet law instead of core issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. Hunter, who was scheduled to take over the socially conservative political group Jan. 1, said he had hoped to focus on issues like poverty and the environment. “These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about,” Hunter said. He resigned on Nov. 21 during an organization board meeting. "
Maybe if more members of these supposed christian groups actually focused on issues like helping the poor as Jesus did in the New Testament, we would see a decrease in the gay bashing and an increase in actually solving the problems our world is facing.
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