This latest attempt by Al Gore to link perfectly acceptable conservative, evangelical Christian beliefs with the terrorists who would destroy us cannot be allowed to stand. If Al Gore had made these comments about someone who was Jewish or Catholic he would be banished from public life forever by the media hounds who protect tolerance and political correctness. But since his deplorable link involved evangelical Christians the mainstream media is predictably silent.
These comments come at a time when "hate crimes" legislation has passed into law in California and is now being considered by the United States Congress. Hate crimes legislation is an attempt to criminalize people’s thoughts, and I such legislation becomes the law of the land, how long will it be before the linking of Evangelical Christianity and Muslim extremism will lead to the prosecution of believers for our beliefs?
Remnick ended his interview with Gore while riding down a street in Nashville, which is home to the Southern Baptist Convention. Gore once claimed to be Southern Baptist. At the end of Remnick’s interview, he asked Gore which church he and Tipper were attending now. "There was a pause in the front seat," Remnick says. "We’re ecumenical now," Gore said finally. "The influx of fundamentalist preachers has pretty much chased us out with their right wing politics."
No Al, the problem is you just can’t stand the truth.
Dr. Tony Beam is a regular columnist for South Carolina's Times Examiner and the SC Baptist Courier, as well as the Director of the Christian Worldview Center at North Greenville College in Tigerville, SC -- dedicated to the task of helping people possess and express a distinctly Biblical Christian Worldview in our culture. North Greenville College is a four-year, Liberal Arts school, which will be expanding to include two Masters programs in the fall of 2005.
