C&E jumps on board with a cover story April 7, 2008
Posted by Zack in Tennessee | 1 comment
Campaigns & Elections magazine gets on the evangelicals-are-up-for-grabs bandwagon:
Like the families they grew up in, Aaron and Ginny Routhe are devout evangelical Christians. Like his parents and hers, they also consider themselves pro-life. But where that’s led them politically comes as a bit of a shock to their staunchly Republican elders. “It is generational; the way we view the Gospel is more well-rounded-or we see it that way,” laughs Ginny, 33, who runs an eco-friendly diaper business while her husband works on a graduate degree at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. “We vote Democratic, and our parents say, ‘How could you vote for abortion?’ But pro-life for us is more holistic, more all of life and all of the environment-endangered species, and not just the human species.” Which is why she and her husband cast their ballots for Barack Obama in the Tennessee primary, while Aaron’s parents, Scott and Carol Routhe, went with Mike Huckabee in New Hampshire’s first round of voting (and plan to support John McCain in the fall). And it’s why listening to the four of them talk about how their common faith informs their quite different political choices explains so much about the growing divide between older and younger evangelical voters.
Hat tip to Ally.
