Dumping Joel Hunter

Poverty? Global Warming? AIDS?

The most important issues of our time don't compare to gay marriage or abortion to many leaders of the Religious Right - just ask the Christian Coalition.

From The Washington Post:

For the second time in little more than a year, the Christian Coalition of America has named a new leader and then removed him before he ever fully took the reins of the conservative political advocacy group.

The Rev. Joel Hunter, pastor of a non-denominational megachurch in Longwood, Fla., said he resigned as the coalition's incoming president because its board of directors disagreed with his plan to broaden the organization's agenda. In addition to opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, Hunter, 58, wanted to take on such issues as poverty, global warming and HIV/AIDS.

"My position is, unless we are caring as much for the vulnerable outside the womb as inside the womb, we're not carrying out the full message of Jesus," he said in a telephone interview today.

And there was Rev. Hunter's problem:  He thought the Christian Coalition had something to do with Jesus.  The name must have confused him.