But can you vote that way? Can you worship that way?

>From Throops Mens Issues Blog:
  http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/channel2/2003_11_16_archive.htm#106902889300666222
  (see the blog for the links to Wallis' full article.)

Jim Wallis is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine,. He speaks on
the theme that "poverty is not a left-wing issue; it's a Christian
issue, and it's time for us all to recognize that." He continues:

    Conservatives have been right in saying that the hold of poverty
    over people's lives will not broken until we confront the problem
    of broken families. Family breakdown traps single parents and
    their kids in a continuing cycle of impoverishment. No mere
    economic initiatives to overcome poverty can possibly succeed
    unless we are simultaneously reweaving the web of family and
    community.

    To promote and support marriage and stable two-parent families is
    an anti-poverty measure, as virtually all the social data
    shows. To ridicule traditional family patterns as essentially
    bourgeois or patriarchal, as too many left-wing intellectuals have
    done, has devastating consequences for poor people. Many liberals
    have good family values, but are often hesitant to talk about
    them, fearing they will sound like the Religious Right.

    Bad personal and moral choices do land people in poverty or keep
    them there. Out in the suburbs, affluence buffers the many bad
    choices kids make, giving them second, third, and many more
    chances. But to an inner-city kid living in a poor and violent
    neighborhood, a bad choice could cost you your life. Sexual
    promiscuity is often covered over by money and lots of abortions
    in wealthy communities. But in poor neighborhoods, kids having
    kids is killing people's chances of ever escaping poverty.

Certainly, one can believe that way and be a liberal . The question
has become Can one believe that way and vote as a liberal?

Even more deeply, can such a one who believes that way as a religious
liberal realize his convictions in charity or social action in concert
with his co-religionists? Can he attend a liberal church and hear
those values championed from the pulpit, the denomination's
headquarters or its seminaries? When he teaches his children those
values, can he turn to his liberal church to strengthen that teaching?

And if he cannot, how long will he continue to call himself a liberal?
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