Evangelicals to Bush: Payback Time
/Christian conservatives say they gave Bush
'moral mandate'; call him to act on their behalf. Among some
conservative Christians, there is a belief that President Bush received
a "moral mandate" to win the recent presidential election - and they
are calling on him act on their agenda now. "I believe Our Lord elected
our president and I believe he put him in office and it is my prayer
that he will sustain him in office," said one woman at the Coral Ridge
Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Another was asked if she
believed that God intervened in the election. "Absolutely," she said.
"Values" voters delivered for the president, and the president must now
deliver for them - especially in the courts, said Gary Cass, head of a
grassroots political organization affiliated with Coral Ridge, called
the Center for Reclaiming America. "It's about the next 40 years and
how the courts are going to affect the world in which my children and
grandchildren are going to be raised in," he said. Cass wants a U.S.
Supreme Court that will outlaw abortion and gay marriage. "Do you want
to take your children to a National League baseball game for instance
and have homosexuals showing affection to one another? I don't want my
kids to see that," he said. [more]
