{"id":7156,"date":"2006-04-17T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2006-04-17T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T14:47:37","slug":"the-religious-right-splits-on-giuliani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-religious-right-splits-on-giuliani\/","title":{"rendered":"The religious right splits on Giuliani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York City Mayor [tag]Rudy Giuliani[\/tag] doesn&#8217;t seem the type to win a Republican presidential primary. He&#8217;s [tag]pro-choice[\/tag] and supports [tag]gay[\/tag] rights. Towards the end of his tenure, he even lived with two gay friends after his wife threw him out of the house for adultery.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060416\/ap_on_el_ge\/fallwell_giuliani\">[tag]Jerry Falwell[\/tag]&#8217;s concerns<\/a> seem like a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rev. Jerry [tag]Falwell[\/tag] doesn&#8217;t see any Democrat making inroads with evangelical Christian voters in the next presidential election. Potential Republican candidate Rudolph [tag]Giuliani[\/tag], the former New York city mayor, won&#8217;t be scoring any points with Falwell, either. &#8220;Everybody admires him. And I&#8217;ll never forget the great things he did on 9\/11 and following,&#8221; Falwell said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, of course, we have, as conservative Christians who take the Bible seriously, we have probably irreconcilable differences on life and family and that kind of thing,&#8221; Falwell said Sunday on &#8220;Late Edition&#8221; on CNN. &#8220;I&#8217;ll never speak an ill word about him because he means so much to America. But, yes, you&#8217;re right. I couldn&#8217;t support him for president,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No big surprise, right? Well, no, but it&#8217;s of at least some interest in light of [tag]Pat Robertson[\/tag]&#8217;s <i>support<\/i> of Giuliani. Just a week ago, [tag]Robertson[\/tag] was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/04\/07\/sunday\/main1481776.shtml\">on CBS News<\/a> praising the former mayor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t share some of his social point of view, but Rudy is a tremendous leader. And he ran a big city. So I think in terms of just competency for presidency, he&#8217;d be a good one.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/ic\/2005\/5\/1\/102522.shtml\">similar comments<\/a> from a year ago, in which Robertson told George Stephanopoulos, &#8220;Rudy&#8217;s a very good friend of mine, and he did a super job running the City of New York. And I think he&#8217;d make a good president. I like him a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/16\/weekinreview\/16luo.html?ex=1302840000&#038;en=aee7f4a99db2bde5&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">New York Times noted<\/a> that there are subtle fissures among [tag]evangelical[\/tag] Christians between &#8220;centrists,&#8221; who want to tackle moral issues beyond a conservative political agenda, and &#8220;traditionalists,&#8221; who dominate the religious right leadership.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d argue, however, that even among traditionalists, there are two camps &#8212; &#8220;idealists,&#8221; who put moral issues above political expediency, and &#8220;pragmatists,&#8221; who&#8217;d vote for anyone with a &#8220;R&#8221; after their name that they thought might win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York City Mayor [tag]Rudy Giuliani[\/tag] doesn&#8217;t seem the type to win a Republican presidential primary. He&#8217;s [tag]pro-choice[\/tag] and supports [tag]gay[\/tag] rights. Towards the end of his tenure, he even lived with two gay friends after his wife threw him out of the house for adultery. With this in mind, [tag]Jerry Falwell[\/tag]&#8217;s concerns seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}