The Washington Post had a story yesterday about how Democrats are trying to close the “God gap” with Republicans:
At a meeting of the House Democrats’ Faith Working Group, a perplexed congressman turned to his colleagues for pastoral guidance. How could he counter a local preacher who argued that all of Jesus’s moral teachings were about the world to come, not the here and now?
Rep. David E. Price (D-N.C.) stood amid the sympathetic sighs and “you can’t convert everyone” comments to offer a new spin on an old parable.
The Good Samaritan is walking down the road and cares for a stranger who has been beaten and robbed, Price said. The next day, on the same road, another person has been beaten and robbed. So it goes for another week — more robberies, more victims.
“How long is it going to take before the Samaritan says, ‘Hey, maybe we ought to patrol this road,’ ” Price said. In other words, the lawmaker argued, there are some problems that individuals can’t solve on their own. They require the resources of a morally responsible government.
Leave to a liberal to address a misguided preacher by overhauling Scripture and then using that to justify more government. That’s aside from the fact that anyone in his right mind would advocate that that road be patrolled.
By the way, the article (from the Religion News Service) calls Price one of the “House Trinity,” who “lead the effort on Capitol Hill to frame legislative debates in moral terms.”
