When I lived in Seattle in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, it was easy to spot which ministers were heavily wrapped up in left wing politics. They always called people "folks". Well, it is back. David Horowitz flays an outfit called "Church Folks for A Better America." Horowitz has been accused of going over the top. In this case, he seriously undersells the critique. Horowitz limits himself to criticizing the ad. But Church Folks says its purpose is "to break the silence about the war in Iraq", as if the left had been quiet up till now. And to do that, it throws just about everything it can.
Church Folks is coordinated by George Hunsinger of the Princeton Theological Seminary. He began an attack on the Iraq war by referring to the "supposed victory in Afghanistan."Hunsinger has specifically defended Saddam against charges of using poison gas against the Kurds, claimed that weapons inspectors were kicked out by Saddam in 1998 because they were setting up Saddam for assassination, and defended Saddam against the charge that he was using the sanctions as a pretext for starving Iraq. Given that the Church Folks insist that Iraq was not a just war, they start with some unsavory credentials.
And of course, since this is all about Iraq, it just has to make attack Israel as well: here, here, here, here, and here, and of course linking to this.
