Guys, do you think he can pull this off... Hyde's spot would be a tough spot to win, don't you think? I wonder if this is more of a show run, just to tell the students and grandkids?
WWJD for Congress?
By The Duke
From: 2006 Elections Table
Wheaton College professor Lindy Scott is exploring a run for retiring Illinois Rep. Henry Hyde's seat in Congress. Prof. Scott is the Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics, and he apparently is taking his own teaching to heart."I would want to serve as if Jesus were serving," Scott says. A pastor in the Evangelical Free Church, Scott was a missionary and an author before joining Wheaton's faculty.But before all of you blue-staters get your britches in a bunch, you need to know that Scott is a Democrat. He calls himself a compassionate Christian who is conservative on some issues and progressive on others. He opposes the death penalty and privatization of Social Security, and supports gun control, increased education funding, and steps towards universal health care. Foreign policy experience? Scott is the author of a book called Terrorism and the War on Iraq, and he lived in Mexico for 16 years. As the Duke has said for a long time, the evangelical community is not the monolithic conservative institution that Republican political strategists would have you believe. Wheaton College is a strong academic institution that is the alma mater of both Billy Graham and Denny Hastert. Some even call it the "Harvard of Christendom," a reference to its prominent standing among Christian colleges, so do not underestimate the impact this announcement could have across the evangelical community. The Washington media have accepted the Republican spin that people of faith are all conservative Republicans. In part this may be that there are too few Democratic elected officials who are comfortable speaking from an evangelical perspective. Lindy Scott in Congress might begin to change that.
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Lindy Scott for Congress
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and he was endorsed by Jason Bloyer!
I'll add my endorsement. I took my Spanish class from Lindy and got to know him a bit through other channels, and I'd vote for him. Heaven knows we would be better off with more Mennonites in Congress.
We should all move back to Wheaton so we can vote for him. Then, after Dr. Scott is elected, we can move from congressional district to congressional district in Illinois electing liberal evangelicals until the whole state glows with a holy blue light. Come on, Adam, we have to leave Austin and Colorado behind us and take back the country one district at at time! The rest of you can follow in second and third waves of righteous relocation. Our biblical block of voters will metaphorically yet systematically crush all the heathen hold-outs who refuse to usher in the kingdom of heaven with good, old-fashioned American democracy. It's a good thing that we've come to a Christian consensus on all the important social and political issues of the day. With the divinely-granted absence of internal disputes, we can ride the donkey of freedom down that straight and narrow path of constitutional representation that leads us all through Washington and Philadelphia and on past the River Jordan to the pearly gates. (We might not save 'em all, but we're taking Chicago with us!)
donkey? can't it be an elephant?
*sniff* aahhhh! anyone who's taking over the world is a friend of mine!
Coye, are you living by yourself in Austin?
Interesting candidate, I'd have to give him serious considertion if I lived there. Nice to see an evangelical running as a democrat.
Yeah, I'm living by myself. *sniffle* Actually, I should be packing right now because I'm moving down on Thursday. Wow, Thursday...
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