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

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David R.
Throop) writes:

>
>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.
>

Is the assumption being made here that Christians do not become poor?  Or that
only Christians live without family breakdown? Poverty is an econoic issue that
affects society as a whole, Christian, pagan or whatever.  Poverty is not a
matter of morality or of personal values but societal allocation of resources. 
Allocation of resources is a political decision. The "left wing" and
"Conservatives"  have different political beliefs about how to make that
decision and the injection of moral judgements on the poor is not helpful. 
Daniel
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