The Daily Caller quotes an evangelical leader, one Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: "Mr. Speaker, if you want to get large numbers of Evangelicals, particularly women, to vote for you, you must address the issue of your marital past in a way that allays the fears of Evangelical women," he wrote this week. "You must address this issue of your marital past directly and transparently and ask folks to forgive you and give you their trust and their vote." Seriously? "Evangelical" voters will either sit out next November or vote for Obama or another candidate should a publicly-unrepentant Gingrich become the GOP nominee? Land's sanctimoniousness is a sight to behold. What's more, his warning defines recklessness. A clear-thinking person would not reject a sound Obama opponent for lack of ideological purity. Would evangelicals really return Obama to office by not supporting a viable opposition candidate? If evangelicals follow Land's direction, then America would witness quite a spectacle: flawed humans inviting the reelection of a....
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