"The pendulum in the Christian world has swung back to the moderate point of view"

David D. Kirkpatrick reports for The New York Times: "Just three years ago, the leaders of the conservative Christian political movement could almost see the Promised Land. White evangelical Protestants looked like perhaps the most potent voting bloc in America.... Today the movement shows signs of coming apart beneath its leaders. It is not merely that none of the 2008 Republican front-runners come close to measuring up to President Bush in the eyes of the evangelical faithful.... The 2008 election is just the latest stress on a system of fault lines that go much deeper."

I have lived through this pendulum winging ... and it does swing ... both ways. The link connected to the title above takes you to the New York Times article. Swing, swing ... but it does not tell you about the bigots and jerks who are not old or dead or retired ...