Real priorities

Basically, this is a continuation of the previous post. I just realized today that Bob Jones, founder of the ultra-conservative Bob Jones University, had thrown his support behind Mitt Romney.

Understand me; I don’t have a bone to pick with Mormons as they can decide on how they want to define their faith and how that faith is lived out. But Bob Jones has, in the past, been very unwilling to compromise in choosing support of a candidate. Remember, too, that this is the same university that didn’t even allow interracial dating until a few years ago because they didn’t believe it to be biblical. Suddenly, the same man who would think nothing of chastising Mormons for following a false prophet is now willing to follow a Mormon to the presidency.

Obviously the “strongly held beliefs” of these Christian conservatives are not so strong after all. If they were, these folks would have gotten behind Sam Brownback with financial support as soon as he announced his desire to run. Instead, Sam had to withdraw. And as I noted earlier, Mike Huckabee is now the only remaining Republican candidate who really signs on to the majority of the religious right’s plank, yet there has not been a call for financial support, or days of prayer in his support, etc., etc.

How ironic, too, that in these same days when there is so much conversation about the political designs of the Christian conservatives that we find a number of the highly successful faces – Hinn, Dollar (!), Meyers, etc. – are under scrutiny for how their tax-exempt congregations have managed to leave them living lives of not only ease, but incredible luxury. If just one of these individuals had thrown his/her financial support behind someone like Huckabee or Brownback, that campaign would have been cemented.

I guess there was a greater need for a new jet or another vacation home...all in service to God, of course.