Justin Giboney thinks he may have found an agenda that can bring Republican and Democratic Christians together. The 41-year-old lawyer and Democratic political operative leads an organization of activists, artists and pastors called the AND Campaign.
at the 2016 Democratic convention. But he and the AND Campaign are pushing American Christians to examine how much of their thinking might have been “captured” by the party they belong to.Giboney wants to “raise civic literacy, help Christians get more engaged in a better way, understand how the system works, but also not accept how our ideologies frame certain issues,” he said. “I don't have any allegiance to either side of the culture war.
“The American church indeed has done some good works, and there are many who are doing good work today. But on the whole, it has been an abject failure on racial justice,” Giboney added., including for convicted felons who have been released. They also want criminal justice reform, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, and paid family leave.
“This is one of the mistakes ... [of] how the right has handled abortion. ... It’s like ‘Hey, let’s make sure that she has this child, and whatever happens after that is on you,’” Giboney said. “That’s not a whole-life perspective.”“This is a complex moral question. The decision isn’t easy for a woman,” he said.
“I think progressives can make this conversation sound very easy when you say ‘my body, my choice.’ That's true, nobody should be telling a woman what to do with her body. The problem with that is, there’s another body in this conversation,” he said.
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