Hugo Schwyzer explains why he's supporting John Edwards for President:
But the truth is that the Gospel says relatively little about the sanctity of marriage. It says relatively little about pre-marital sex. Unless one tortures the text, it says nothing about when life begins. But it does say a heck of a lot about poverty. It does talk about the responsibility to do justice, and the kind of justice Scripture refers to most often is the justice that needs to be done to the poorest and most vulnerable among us. Jesus speaks more about money than about any other topic other than the Kingdom of Heaven itself.
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I am supporting John Edwards because of all the major candidates, his stance on poverty and justice most closely matches what I believe to be the biblical call to do justice and love mercy. And I am supporting him because I believe that in the end, when we are held to account by our maker, we will be judged less by what we did in our bedrooms and more by how we cared for the poor, the alienated, the frightened and the oppressed. _
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01:06:08 PM, Sunday 18 March 2007

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I went to a St. Patrick's Day party at the home of some friends from UGA who now live here (one's a post-doc, one's a professor at a small women's college). It was a lot of fun. They have a really cool house, reasonable size, in an older neighborhood in Durham. And they have nice furniture and walls covered with beautiful art and things they've collected from their travels. It's especially depressing since he started his PhD at the same time that I started my MS, without getting a master's first. _
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