Family Research Council and a Denial of Partisan Christianity

Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” The great American novelist would have gotten a kick out of a recent blog post by Family Research Council’s (FRC) Chris Marlink. 



The post attempted to critique a USA Today column, “Evangelicals Seek Positive Change,” in which I was quoted as saying:
Americans are tired of the incivility and the partisan divisiveness on both sides. Regardless of how much longer the culture wars are going to continue, Christians need to transcend the polemical, partisan, power-hungry battles that stymie the common good… Christians cannot join the ranks of the politically apathetic. But we aren’t forced to choose a human-formed party with a systematized divide-and-conquer agenda, either. We can stand in the gap and claim loyalty only to Jesus.


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