Former Jerry Falwell chief of staff and now a leading Christian PR exec:
Too many evangelicals and religious conservatives are too preoccupied with values and faith and pay no attention to competence. We don't apply this approach to anything else in life, including choosing a pastor.
Imagine, he said, if a church were searching for its new pastor and the leadership was interviewing a candidate with great values but little experience.
[He's] been a pastor for two years at a church with 150 people but he shares our values, so we hired him to be pastor of our 5,000 person church? It wouldn't happen! We don't say, 'He shares our values, so let's hire him.' That's absurd. Yet we apply that to choosing presidents. It blows my mind....
Sanity. Who woulda thunk it?
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