Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Is this an affirmation or what?

Pat Robertson alleges that Sojourners is a "semi-socialist" organization:
ZAHN: If you're not a Republican, can you be a Christian?

ROBERTSON: Well, I was a Democrat for about 55 years, so I guess so. You know, the party left us. The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

ZAHN: But there are a lot of Christians out there who take umbrage at what you're saying. There is this magazine called "Sojourners" magazine.

ROBERTSON: Oh, yes.

ZAHN: Which, by its admission, is a liberal Christian magazine.

(CROSSTALK)

ROBERTSON: Semi-socialist.
CNN.com - Paula Zahn's interview with Pat Robertson

If Pat Robertson, who has always been a little out of touch with reality, makes this claim, then certainly Sojourners is doing something right. After all, this is the man who stated that "(f)eminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

Sojourners Executive Editor David Batstone responds