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"In a country where the White House, Justice Department, Senate, and House of Representatives are all led by evangelicals, it takes some amount of chutzpah to continue insisting that evangelicals are being kept down by the secular Man. So it helped that the Supreme Court seemed to be an evangelical-free zone that could be targeted for change. The fact that Clarence Thomas already broke through this "barrier" is inconvenient enough to be avoided."We learn that "Thomas was an involved member of an evangelical church when he joined the Supreme Court in the fall of 1991 . . . Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, Va."
I don't expect Salon to be edited by theologians, but isn't it common knowledge that the Episcopal Church is not evangelical? Its spiritual leader is the Archbishop of Canterbury. In England it's headed by the Queen. This is not an evangelical organization.
Pretty convincing, no? Mentioning the Queen and all? But be fair and take in the Salon analysis:
"Still, some conservative evangelicals protest to me that Episcopalians aren't "really" evangelical, leaving Miers' claim to fame secure. This claim is undercut by the fact that one of the most popular and vibrant Washington-area churches for the conservative power set is the evangelical Falls Church Episcopal, where on a typical Sunday you can find Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson, CIA director Porter Goss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes, and dozens of other conservatives with legitimate evangelical credentials."Got that? The well-understood fact that Episcopalians aren't evangelical is "undercut" by the goings on at a different Episcopal church than Thomas attended, some of whose parishoners, despite presumably being Episcopalians, have "legitimate evangelical credentials." Who is issuing these legitimate credentials? Not Queen Elizabeth II or the Rt. Hon. Rowan Williams, I'd venture. Perhaps the credentials come with service in the Bush Administration.
I wish Salon could be a little more in touch so they could avoid running entire articles based on false premises. Because, journalistically speaking, running entire articles based on false premises = bad.
By the way, Thomas is apparently back attending Mass. Harriet Miers converted from Catholicism to whatever denomination holds sway at Valley View Christian Church. George W. Bush became "born again," we are told. What is up with all these adult flip-flops and conversions? Shouldn't serious people have their religions figured out by the time they are in their forties or fifties?
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