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In the New Testament, there is only one sin that gets the divine death penalty: hypocrisy.\u00a0 There is a reason.\u00a0 It\u2019s the devil\u2019s best tool against the Christian witness.\u00a0 And it\u2019s what so disappoints me about the Republican approach to faith and politics.\u00a0 The Patheos question this week is \u201cDoes a candidate\u2019s faith matter?\u201d It matters deeply when the candidate runs on their faith while ignoring its core tenents. Doing so does horrible harm to the Christian witness. It\u2019s a big reason why I got into this work, and why when we started working with Democrats on faith back in \u201905, we had two Prime Directives: 1) The work had to be authentic and 2) it had to come from a place of religious humility, not arrogance.\u00a0 And it is why I\u2019m not surprised by the recent revelation that out spoken defender of family values and hardcore \u201cPro-Life\u201d Tennessee Congressman Scott DesJarlais was taped encouraging one of his four mistresses to abort his unborn child<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll get back to DesJarlais in a bit, and I want to preface the rest of this piece by making clear that not all Republicans or members of the Christian Right are hypocrites.\u00a0 Most are good people trying their best to do what is right.\u00a0 But they continually lift up and support leaders like DesJarlais, and it\u2019s brutalizing the Christian witness in this country.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a coincidence that people who run campaigns based on judging others so often crash and burn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is a reason Jesus spent so much time warning against righteous judgment and our human inclination to focus on our neighbor\u2019s wrongs to avoid having to look at our own.\u00a0 That inclination is what has allowed the pro-life political movement in this country to be co-opted by Republicans who only talk about the issue instead of actually protecting the unborn<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s much easier to just say you are pro-life and that women shouldn\u2019t have abortions than to actually do the harder and more complex work of reducing the number who do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s much easier to be \u201cpro-family,\u201d which recently has pretty much meant fighting over gay-marriage, than to actually do the hard work in our communities (and our own families!) to keep marriages strong.\u00a0 Gays make up what, 2% or so of the population?\u00a0 And 50% of traditional marriages end in divorce.\u00a0 I\u2019m not saying gay-marriage doesn\u2019t matter, but it\u2019s mind boggling that so much attention and money is focused on picking at that speck of an issue while we mostly ignore the 2\u00d74 of a problem wedged in our own churches and communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You see, the \u201cadvantage\u201d of focusing on judgment in faith and politics is that it allows you to compare yourself to other people on a standard you choose\u2026and thereby feel rather righteous and good about yourself, both because you are better and because you are fighting for God.\u00a0 But that isn\u2019t what Christ taught.\u00a0 The standard we\u2019re judged by is His, not our neighbors\u2019.\u00a0 Given how far short we fall of Christ\u2019s standard, it\u2019s laughable that we could ever think \u201csuperior\u201d or \u201cmore righteous\u201d are terms we could use to describe ourselves.<\/p>\n

But the main reason Jesus was so against the Pharisaical approach to faith that defines the Republican leadership and Religious Right is that it is\u00a0not how you build relationship or show people God\u2019s love.\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus was the standard and perfect, but he was also the one to spent his time with the worst sinners in his society.\u00a0 He knew you can\u2019t show people God\u2019s love when you\u2019re yelling at them.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s Pew study<\/a> showing that 20% of Americans no longer identify with a religious tradition got a lot of attention and buzz.\u00a0 Some panicked, and a lot of the headlines and coverage misread the data saying it was a rise of atheism.\u00a0 When you look at the actual results, what Pew found was not that attitudes and beliefs are changing much.\u00a0 It\u2019s more a matter of labels.\u00a0 What\u2019s changing is that people who are marginally religious are no longer identifying as Christian.\u00a0 An argument can be made that this\u00a0is a good thing, that civil Christianity isn\u2019t real.\u00a0 You shouldn\u2019t be Christian because it\u2019s comfortable.\u00a0 But it also points to a much more serious problem.\u00a0 Twenty years ago \u201cChristian\u201d was a label people on the fence wanted and saw as a good thing.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s a label they don\u2019t want to be associated with.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to Rep. DesJarlais.\u00a0 One of the main reasons people gave for saying they had no religious affiliation is that they think religion is too focused on worldly power and judgment, and it\u2019s been co-opted by politics and ideology.\u00a0 That is what hypocrisy does.\u00a0 It\u2019s why politicians running on extreme judgment and fear should be so feared.\u00a0 DesJarlais was one of those guys with a 100% pro-life record and 100% pro-family record who probably deserved another 10 points in extra credit on each category.\u00a0 And he got those ratings and endorsements from the Christian Right after his first divorce and despite the fact that, as we now know, he had four mistresses and was pushing one to abort his child.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not only does the Right\u2019s approach often result in\u00a0hypocrisy and harm to the Christian witness, it blinds them to people\u2019s struggle.\u00a0 DesJarlais didn\u2019t push his mistress to have an abortion because he was a two-faced liar.\u00a0 I have no doubt he believes abortion is wrong.\u00a0 But he found himself in a situation where he had nothing but bad options.\u00a0 He kept making worse decisions because when you\u2019re constantly dishing out judgment, it\u2019s hard to ask for grace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sadly, DesJarlais\u2019 probably went to a church and had friends who will start shunning him.\u00a0 What he, his family, and his mistresses need right now are love and grace from his church.\u00a0 But he has also lost all claim to leadership over his fellow citizens.\u00a0 Re-electing him would send a horrible example to our children and to non-Christians about what we value.\u00a0 Thankfully, the alternative in this race, Eric Stewart<\/a>, is a great guy and good Christian.\u00a0 Stewart isn\u2019t perfect either, and he\u2019ll be the first to tell you that.\u00a0 But by not looking down on his neighbors, he understands what they are going through and need.\u00a0 That\u2019s what makes good leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re pro-life and think that label matters; if you are pro-family;\u00a0you should help make sure Eric Stewart becomes the next Congressman from TN-04<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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