Jesus and Politics

Linda Valdez wants to claim Jesus as a radical liberal, and thereby reclaim voters who have abandoned the Democrats on the basis of moral values:

It's time to say the liberal Democrats are the ones who have consistently supported the Jesus-taught principles of helping the powerless. Ditto for championing the interests of middle-class working people.

Somehow, Democrats let others define them as elitist snobs. That label, not the liberal label, is the one Democrats have to shake.

She seems to think that reading the New Testament would make it clear to anyone that Jesus was a Democrat,

At a time when conservatives are suggesting that providing health care to workers is not an employer's responsibility, Democrats should be pointing out the inherent immorality of the existence of a "working poor" class.

They should be "for" better wages.

They should be "for" national health care.

They should be "for" being liberals. They should point out that Jesus was a liberal, too.. . .

[Hillary] needs the guts to take a proud left turn and loudly proclaim that the United States is not a "Christian nation" in any pinched or exclusionary way.

Good luck with that. The Jesus
I've read about in the scriptures didn't advocate eliminating the death penalty. He said that anyone who would harm children would be better off to have a millstone hung around his neck and be cast into the sea.

He taught that his kingdom was not of this world. He was no political subversive. He advocated not resisting the impositions of the Romans. And he or his apostles taught that his second coming would cleanse the earth of all sin. Not very tolerant or diversity-oriented that.