Lberal religion reporter Hanna Rosin is one of our favorites here at Road to the Middle Class. Not because she is a liberal but because she gets out and reports on conservative Christians in America. She doesn’t really like them but she does a professional reporting job on them.
Now she’s taking a look at evangelical lawyers like Laura Goodling, the former Justice Department official who testified on Capitol Hill this week about the US Attorney firings.
Don’t think these are all just hayseeds, warns Rosin.
Goodling is part of a new generation of evangelicals ushered in by Falwell, who insisted that Christians get involved in politics. They are graduates of the exploding number of evangelical colleges, which no longer aim to create a parallel subculture but instead to train "Christian leaders to change the world," as the Regent mission statement reads.
Goodling is a graduate of the law school at Regent University, founded by Pat Robertson. And she got her bachelor’s degree at Messiah College. There are 150 graduates of the Regent law school in the White House.
Exactly. Liberals be afraid; be very afraid.
These people are all over the place and when the next Democratic administration comes to Washington they will be scattering to Congressional staffs and to conservative think tanks. Writes Rosin
It took the conservative political movement 30 years to become a fixture in American politics, and it’s taken evangelicals about the same. Like conservatives, evangelicals may remain chronically ambivalent, afflicted with a persecution complex despite their obvious successes. But they are embedded firmly enough into Washington to provide jobs for smart young Christians for generations to come.
Think about that for a moment. It means that there are now two right-of-center movements that have penetrated into the governing establishment in the last generation: the philosophically-oriented conservative movement; and the spiritually-oriented evangelical movement.
What’s not to like?
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