Chuck Colson delivers a daily radio commentary which is listened to by an estimated one million people.
On February 21 he discussed Jim Wallis’s new approach to abortion and poverty issues, suggesting that, by advocating an ethical stance on both, Wallis was working out of a framework of ‘moral equivalency’. Jim Wallis replied with an Open Letter. Colson ditto.
Republican v. Democrat
What is interesting about this debate is that Chuck Colson is (of course) a Republican and Jim Wallis a Democrat. The thin Red/Blue line has become rather a thick prickly hedge, not to say a barbed wire wall. It is possible that Jim Wallis is operating within a very much more theologically liberal viewpoint than Colson. But, at face value, taking an entirely dispassionate view, their two positions on this matter seem almost identical, ethically speaking. Both are against abortion. Both are against poverty. Both campaign actively to bring release to the disadvantaged in America and the world. Here’s the difference: Wallis thinks these principles are commensurate with voting Democrat.
