VIDEO: the New Evangelical Priorities on CBS Evening News
CBS interviews Wallis and Richard Land on the issues that evangelical Christians care about.
The segment features a new CBS poll which found that the top issues white Evangelicals want to hear candidates discuss are Healthcare (23%) and Iraq (20%); abortion and gay marriage didn't even crack the top 4 issues. Poverty topped the list (at 33%) when Evangelicals were asked, "Which issue should Evangelical Christians get involved in?"
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I am just thrilled a question about poverty and Darfur got asked! Shows how far we have come in getting the media to "get" that evangelicals are not a monolith!
Here's that full question from the poll: Looking beyond politics, when evangelicals are asked to choose among three issues which they think evangelical Christians should get involved in, more choose poverty and world hunger than either abortion or genocide and violence in places like Darfur.
WHICH ISSUE SHOULD EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS BE INVOLVED IN?
(Among white evangelicals)
Poverty 33%
Abortion 22
Genocide/violence 17
All three (vol.) 15
PDF of poll results: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/CBSNews_poll_evan_101807.pdf
Posted by: Katie | October 19, 2007 05:37 PM