Richard Cizik, evangelical leader, gets religion

The National Association of Evangelicals was at one time a relatively moderate organization which could abide within its ranks some difference of opinion and theological diversity.

All that has changed. Theses days, a more descriptive and accurate name for the NAE would be the National Association of Fundamentalists.


Richard Cizik has been "fired."

Well, it is reported that he resigned his position as vice president for governmental affairs because, as NAE president Leith Anderson put it in a letter to NAE board members, there has arisen "a loss of trust in his [Cizik's] credibility as a spokesperson among leaders and constituencies."

Here's the translation: On December 2, Cizik appeared on NPR's "Fresh Air," where had the audacity to admit that he voted for Barack Obama (in Virginia's primary) and that he thought it was OK for Christians to vote for pro-choice candidates as well as candidates who supported same-sex marriage.

Even worse was Cizik's confession that his mind was changing and that while he did not at this time support same-sex marriage, he did support civil unions for gays.


Omigod!

Cizik, of course, is no longer considered a "good" Christian by the "true believers" affiliated with the National Association of Fundamentalists, aka NAE.

Obviously, Cizik has denied god's truth regarding abortion and homosexuality as it is not laid out in the Bible, but he also thinks there might be something to this thing called "global warming." Yup! What a creep, huh?

But it was the same-sex civil union bit that got him relieved of his position.

Perhaps Wendy Wright, who presides over the extremist christianist wingnut group, Concerned Women for America, said it best. What Cizik believes, said Wendy, is "not anywhere close to biblical orthodoxy, traditional Christian theology, nor the bulk of Evangelicals who ground their faith in the Bible."

Ingrid Schlueter, one of the "Limbaughs" on the right, and co-host of Crosstalk America, got truly nasty, and forgot all that her savior taught in his brief time upon the earth. What Cizik said, she said, exemplifies the moral decay in our great land. "The moral anarchy in America worsens daily do (sic) the refusal of evangelical Christians to stand for biblical truth in all areas of life. Those who are at war with God, the author of life, should be publicly confronted by evangelical Christians. Instead, they are aided and abetted in their evil by craven leaders like Cizik."


Whew! Cizik. Evil. Craven leader!

"Love your neighbor as ourself." "Do unto others." "Turn the other cheek." "Forgive seventy times seven."

Don't you just love this christianist religion? So long as you're anti-abortion; so long as you hate homosexuals; so long as you deny global warming, you can call yourself as born-again, saved by Jesus, going to heaven Christian. You don't have to walk the walk or do anything that Jesus said defined those who followed him.


It appears that Cizik finally came to his senses - more or less. One wonders what the hell took him so long!