Over at his blog, Denny Burk highlights a brief video detailing why he does not care for Glenn Beck’s politics, even though Beck, like Burk presumably, is an economic conservative. And on this issue, Burk is absolutely correct in denouncing the myopic agenda of “rodeo-clowns” like Beck (as he calls himself). For Burk and similarly like-minded evangelicals (like yours truly), Beck’s dismissal on the importance of issues such as gay marriage and abortion signal a troubling shift in pop-conservatism.
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