In a recent interview in the Boston Globe, Howard Dean, the presidential nomination frontrunner in the highly secularized democratic party, described himself as "a committed believer in Jesus Christ" and said he expects to include more references to Jesus and God in speeches while campaigning in the south. He offered that. . .
Christ was someone who sought out people who were disenfranchised, people who were left behind. . . . He fought against self-righteousness of people who had everything. . . . He was a person who set an extraordinary example that has lasted 2000 years, which is pretty inspiring when you think about it.Dean's statement, if transcribed accurately, is conspicuously free of references to Christ's divinity -- something a "committed believer" would be rather likely to work into any public statement of his faith, don't ya think?
As James Taranto observed in his Best of the Web column, "To hear Howard Dean tell it, Jesus Christ was just a socially conscious celebrity, like Princess Diana only less glamorous."
Not that a non-Christian could not do a fine job as president. Off the top of my head, I can think of several prominent Jews with a thousand times the moral sense of our "Christian" former chief executive Jimmy Carter, who by appeasing our enemies put us on the road to a war on Islamic terror. But I digress.
Use this link to ask Howard Dean to -- as a "committed believer" and in the interest of full disclosure to a few tens of millions of Evangelicals who might care about such things -- make a public statement clarifying his beliefs concerning whether Jesus Christ is God. Better yet, use our Take Action page to also e-mail President Bush and request that he put the question face-to-face in the presidential election debates, should Dean succeed in securing the nomination. Now that's must-see TV.
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