Cizik Warns of US Evangelicals' 'Roadside Bombs'

The former chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), fired by the group in 2008 for his controversial comments favoring same-sex civil unions, spoke recently at Washington’s liberal National Cathedral.

Richard Cizik joined Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III to speak about “civility” with the theme “Identifying the Common Good: For Ourselves, For Others, and the Planet.” The opponent to that common good was identified as “old guard” traditional Christian conservatives whom Cizik accused of igniting metaphorical “roadside bombs” in the culture.

“Frankly, there is a roadside bomb on this road that the religious right and now the tea party is taking us,” Cizik warned. “And that roadside bomb is going to explode, because incivility always does.”