For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is ‘God’s Foreign Policy’

There have been many times, in my lifetime, when upholding the First Amendment right to free speech was quite unpleasant for many Americans, but we know it is necessary. The government should not interfere. The American people, however, are in no way obliged to listen or reserve criticism

Allowing the KKK to march and state their hateful beliefs is gut-wrenching for most of us. Our founders were wise. Sometimes the best thing a nation can do is allow the hate-mongers to have their say. In so doing, they show their ugly colors.

It has become difficult, as well, to uphold the other part of the first amendment, freedom of religion, as we get a clearer, as a nation, on the cultish, religiously insane belief systems of some on the Christian Right.

For Evangelicals, Supporting Israel Is ‘God’s Foreign Policy’ - New York Times:

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — As Israeli bombs fell on Lebanon for a second week last July, the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio arrived in Washington with 3,500 evangelicals for the first annual conference of his newly founded organization, Christians United For Israel.

At a dinner addressed by the Israeli ambassador, a handful of Republican senators and the chairman of the Republican Party, Mr. Hagee read greetings from President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and dispatched the crowd with a message for their representatives in Congress. Tell them “to let Israel do their job” of destroying the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, Mr. Hagee said.

He called the conflict “a battle between good and evil” and said support for Israel was “God’s foreign policy."