Appearing Friday (Oct. 25) on C-SPAN, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) said the headline on a recent profile in The Wall Street Journal was misleading about what he believes regarding evangelical involvement on cultural issues. Peter Slen, host of "Washington Journal," quickly asked Moore if the headline – "Evangelical Leader Preaches Pullback From Politics, Culture Wars" -- was accurate.
"I think that was an inaccurate headline," Moore said, because it did not include "the word 'against.'"
Instead, what it should have said, he told Slen, is: "Evangelical Leader Preaches Against Pullback ..."
"What I'm calling for is not a pullback but a priority," Moore said. "What I'm concerned about is that I see a generation of evangelicals who are disaffected from political engagement. Many of them simply want to walk away from political engagement, which I think would be a terrible error. The reason they want to walk away from it is because they've lived in a secularized society and they understand the importance of the Gospel, what the Scripture says is of first importance....
"And so many of them want to say, 'Let's concentrate on that and not consume ourselves with politics.' What I'm wanting to say to them is: 'We can't make that choice. We have to, if we love our neighbors, be engaged in the public process; we have to be concerned as citizens; we have to be fighting against injustice, including injustices such as abortion and sex trafficking and pornography and all of those things.'
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"I think that was an inaccurate headline," Moore said, because it did not include "the word 'against.'"
Instead, what it should have said, he told Slen, is: "Evangelical Leader Preaches Against Pullback ..."
"What I'm calling for is not a pullback but a priority," Moore said. "What I'm concerned about is that I see a generation of evangelicals who are disaffected from political engagement. Many of them simply want to walk away from political engagement, which I think would be a terrible error. The reason they want to walk away from it is because they've lived in a secularized society and they understand the importance of the Gospel, what the Scripture says is of first importance....
"And so many of them want to say, 'Let's concentrate on that and not consume ourselves with politics.' What I'm wanting to say to them is: 'We can't make that choice. We have to, if we love our neighbors, be engaged in the public process; we have to be concerned as citizens; we have to be fighting against injustice, including injustices such as abortion and sex trafficking and pornography and all of those things.'
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