The religious left’s Jim Wallis and the religious right’s Richard Land disagree on a lot of policy issues. But on Wednesday evening the two leaders came together for an event in the nation’s capital to agree on one thing: the campaigning in next year’s election could set a new benchmark for negativity.
Land, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, predicted it would be the “ugliest campaign since 1800.” That is when, according to Land, New England Federalists buried their Bibles to hide them over fears that the new Thomas Jefferson administration would confiscate them.
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