David's Daily Diversions

The first thought that crossed my mind was, "Frank Schaeffer", though in Massachusetts he'd have a huge uphill battle to fight against either Kennedy or Kerry.

What you want is possible - look at the Eastern Orthodox, including admirably conservative ones such as in ROCOR, who signed a petition against the Iraq war - but not likely.

Mr Sarbanes shows how abysmally catechized many ethnic rank-and-file Orthodox are. Most of them don't care and vote for people like him. Even the ones involved in church politics, jurisdictional fights, etc. often don't care about life issues. And after all, the patriarch of Constantinople made him an Archon! ('He Greek and give us money.') BTW, readers, ethnic Greeks are the biggest nominally Orthodox group in the US.

If one of the converts with the right view on abortion stood for election and won I fear he or she would be just another version of the Protestant religious right, supporting the war, etc. Just like the RC neocons who support Mr Bush's handlers' agenda.